A little of everything!

In no particular order, but I like to have pics and narrating in my blog.  I just printed out 2023 and should have my blog book in a few days...it's been shipped!  Woohoo...I love looking through my blog book...but I digress...Here is a pic of my knitted sweater I finished!  Actually, wore it when Bob and I had errands to run on Friday!  I was freezing and didn't want to wear a sweat shirt out, so looked on my shelf and look what I found!  I had washed and blocked it over a week ago but put it away!  Hard to take a selfie!  HA HA

Yes, it's me!  VERY, VERY cold here in Michigan...although, it's up to 7 degrees/real feel is 4.  Minus 2 this a.m.  This was taken early last week when we had a 35+ degree day and girls wanted to walk!

So, yes, we girls bundled up and off for a half mile walk!

Woohoo!  Michigan win!  Talk about being a nervous wreck!

Gigi was their cheerleader!!!

Kayla (L) our grand daughter and Talissa our new 'grand daugher'..she and Ian got married this past fall.

This is Ron and his grand daughter (our great grand)...they are really close, which is wonderful!  This is a great picture!!!

This is Ron's wife, Mary Jo and their daughter Kayla !

Not knitting but this is crochet project my sister is making! She is taller than I am and this is something she would wear.  She knitted a coat years and years ago that she won an award at the local fair for knitting.  She doesn't have any pictures of it, which is a shame.  I remember seeing it and it was beautiful  This will look great on my sis too!

This is my next knitting project.  I'm making in vanilla as red doesn't look good on me!  HA  it's really very pretty in black too but I have so much black and with a black camisole under the white knitting will look good or I can wear white under too.  I love this designer's patterns!!  If you are or aren't on Ravelry, check her out.  Her page is called DanDoh...I bought two of her patterns...have to be ready for the next one, right!

Check out this beautiful cyano print on fabric that my friend, Bonnie Banks sent me.  Bonnie and I met one winter when she came to Florida for a visit with Beth Sherman (I've had posts on Beth before on my blog.  She's a beautiful quilter, artist, you name it!  Beth can do it!).  

Bonnie is also a talented quilter and artist.  She's on FB so look her up sometime.  She only lives about an hour or so from me...guess we need to meet half way sometime!!!  Bonnie is a sweetheart and I love she sent this to me.

Not sure how I will use this piece or if I'll cut it up!  I know that sounds bad but you'd be surprise how beautiful cyano prints can look even cut up.  I've not decided how to use it yet......

AND for the most exciting news!!!!!

24-23 NFC wild-card win over the visiting Los Angeles Rams this past Sunday (Jan. 20th) at Ford Field.  First time in 32 yrs!  How cool is this!!!  Woohoo!  

 

Now, let's get into a project that you have to read and think!  Which for some reason, I don't do well when reading a knitting pattern.  Hence, I love charts!  For some reason, that makes sense to me.  Words are easy for me to 'read into them' what I think is happening!  

This is a sweater I want to make for Christmas...I didn't say which Christmas!!!!  Trying to shoot for 2023 but I am realistic!  HA

The pattern is by Hinterm Stein on Ravelry.  I also have another one of her patterns I want to make.

I started this past week  and thought the center pattern was really cool!

But then I ran into some 'issues' I caused myself...yep, not reading correctly...but I struggled through and thought...boy, this is hard!!!  

Just one of the edges didn't look right...of course, I didn't notice until I had knitted about 10 rows!  DUH.

I also noticed I was off ONE stitch!  Grrrrrrrrr

So what's a gal to do but rip/rip!

Started to unknit here and decided it was easier in above pic to wrap the collar area around my coffee cup!  

So now I'll be starting over!  But that's ok...it's a lot of work to knit projects and I'd rather start over and have it correct than get frustrated because it doesn't look right or fit!  So that's my story and I'm sticking to it!