Knit Update

I have started my first circular shawl and finished chart one (second start). It's going very well since I changed from metal needles to bamboo. The metal needles were just too slippery for the lace. I did start Queen Anne's Lace by MMario with another color and yarn. I made too many mistakes and with the metal needles the stitches were always dropping off. This second time is much better with the bamboo needles and I like the lace yarn that I'm using this time much better.

On the Ravelry Peaches & Creme Group they're having Friendship Scarf groups dependent on color, pets or not, smoke or not. It sounds like lots of fun and have joined in with purple, pet, and no smoke. I have my part of the scarf ready to send to the next person who will knit 10 inches then send it to the next person in our group and so on. There is a total of 5 people in each group. By the time that it returns to you it's finished except using the kitchner stitch to stitch the two halves together.

I received a thank you note from the hospital today for the preemie hats that I made in November. That was so nice of them.

I've also been having a blast making stitch markers and receiving them from my swap partners through Stuff Knitters Want and Gotta Have Yahoo group.

My son will be coming home soon for a few days at the end of the month. I can't wait to see him. He first called from Hawaii about 6 pm (my time) but I was sleeping so that I would be ready to work that night. I called him back and left a message about 10:30 pm when I checked my phone. He called me back Thursday morning about 4 am to say hello and let me know that he was back in the states after spending time in Okinawa and Korea. Actually it was his suggestion that I should post more often to my blog since he admitted that he actually reads it. So I will make a much better effort to post to my blog on a regular basis and not let so much time pass between.