Life Interrupted

I haven't had a chance to blog lately. Last week was spring break and both daughters were home. My oldest came from college with her two little monsters and that was the end of our quiet, calm, peaceful house. The little monsters are cute but very hyper and loud. My poor senior dog was having difficult time to adjust. All he wanted to be left alone. But those two wanted to play with him and chase the cats. They enjoyed chasing the cats so much, my daughter took one of the cats down to OK. No, of course that was not the real reason, I love my cats, but this one was having issues. So we want to isolate him and find the root cause.

Monster 1 - 8 lbs Monster 2 - 5 lbs

Partners in crime enjoying nice weather.

I did not have any serious knitting time between working from home and trying to spend time with my daughters. I almost done with my everyday Cardigan, I need to finish one arm, block it and knit the button and neck bands. The goal is complete the cardigan this week because I want to start on my $1.50 cardigan from IK. I was checking Knitpicks side , they finally got Cotlin, I immediately ordered in Linen color as they did not have much color selection. I said I did not have time for knitting but I still found time for some mindless knitting aka dishcloth knitting ( no offense to anybody). (Grandma's favorite, MDK and ballband dish clothes)

My oldest daughter found this funny since I don't use dish clothes and immediately requested that I spend my time on something more useful!!! That's the reward you get, raising kids, they start telling what to do on your free time. I asked her like what I can possibly do and would be qualified useful. She answered "you can knit me a blanket". Oh she is smart or what. I got excited and start showing her lizard ridge from Knitty, log cabin from MDK and ripple blanket on line. My dreams of using beautiful Noro or colorful cottons shattered when she asked a "guilt free" blanket that she can use, wash without worrying. So we went to not to the LYS , to local craft store and got these.

These are her college colors. She wanted a checkered pattern with these three colors. I decided to use the idea of garter stitch baby blanket from LMK. I casted 34 stitch on sz 8 needles. I ended up having 8" square. I will knit strips of alternating colors and I will sew the strips to make blankets instead of knitting squares separately. I have about 5 weeks to complete, her graduation is on May 5th and she is heading to law school.

On a different note , I had my doctor's appointment last Thursday. After series of xrays I have been told that I still can not put weight on my leg, the consequence would be a shorter leg and lifetime limp. So I need to use the wheelchair for another 6 weeks. I should be grateful but I was disappointed. I should post a sock progress report once I have all the photos.