RCK KAL

I have worked on little but my River City Knitters knit-a-long these past weeks. My multi-tasking brain just does not seem able to focus on more than one knitting project right now. That doesn't mean, though, that I haven't thought about other projects, or mused about starting other projects, or oogled yarn and patterns here and there - no, it doesn't. I just have not put my kneedles to any other projects lately. The good part about that is that I am working on Clue 3 which means that I am right where I am supposed to be. Barb M. has completed Clue 3, but that's ok! She and I compared our wraps last night at TNK and I seem to be on the right track, PTL! Barb is a wonderfully talented, veteran knitter so it was gratifying to see that I had not screwed up completely! I will add a photo of mine soon - just need to take one, ok?

My family is doing ok. Oldest nephew is working hard at his first post-college job; youngest nephew just got back from a week at BSA camp. Sister and bro-in-law took a quick jaunt out of town, but are back again; making do. Lots of 'making do' going on here. On a positive note, my son T turns 16 this Sunday. In anticipation of the next question, no that does not mean he can get his driver's license soon. Well, it could mean that, but it doesn't. He may get his learner's permit now and his license in due time (but no sooner than next spring). While I'd love to have someone else run errands and haul him around, I don't mind waiting for him to earn his license. He probably feels differently, but that's the breaks, eh?

My good friend sent me this lovely photo taken on the Rappahannock recently - thought we needed something lovely to wrap up this post.

TNK and formats

I have been messing around with the formatting ... what do you think?

TNK is tonight - I have missed a few meetings so it will be nice to catch up with folks. We are temporarily meeting at Ukrops in their cafe b/c the old B&N closed up in anticipation of the new B&N opening on the mall grounds... parking is going to get a whole lot tougher I think.

Attended a great Memorial Day cookout at DC's in Dinwiddie - the whole fam damily was there just about... my son was being 15 and didn't want to go so I let him stay in town and hit the movies with his friends instead.

I have started over on my RCK KAL - I was not enjoying knitting with the blue heathered lace-weight yarn - it was so 'stiff', not springy... I like knitting with the Yarn Treehouse Melody much better!

Hokie Hope Blankets

Above are photos of TNK sewing 8"x8" squares together to make a blanket for one of the victims of the 4-16-07 shooting at Tech. Many of our members made squares for the effort, but all said that actually sewing together the squares that have come from all over the United States and the world really made us feel like we contributed to the healing process. I loved it and would be happy to do more if needed.