Whew! I have my work cut out for me during the month of May. Since my husband is set to deploy in June, that might be a good thing. It will keep me busy and not thinking about that near as much. Deployment is never fun or easy.
For some unknown reason, I decided to knit my sons' teachers scarves for their end of the year gifts. My kids get out of school June 2. Uh, right. LOL And are they easy, whip them out in no time scarves? Of course not! They're LACE scarves. I adore lace and I think every woman deserves something completely frivolous and beautiful that has no purpose. :-D One of my sons' teachers is male, so obviously a lace scarf won't work for him. So, I'm going to bake cookies a day or two before school is over and send him some of those instead.
Enter the scarves. I'm going to do this beautiful pattern I found on Ravelry. It's called Traveling Roses. Also, I found someone on Ravelry selling two skeins of the same colored yarn, so I won't have to decide which teacher gets which color. That makes it so much easier! Okay, and I'll admit it. I'm looking forward to using 100% alpaca yarn. I'm hoping I'm not allergic to it as I've never worked with it before. I'm allergic to angora and sensitive to wool, so it's an honest worry.
I'm currently working on a shawl called Falling Water. It is so pretty. Though, I'll admit that the stockinette rows are putting me to sleep. Luckily, I only have 13 more rows of that left before I start the lace pattern. I'm going to get this finished before I start the scarves. I had an unfortunate set back on this pattern recently. I dropped a stitch or something part way through and ended up having to rip out all of the stitches. I'd started it on size 6 needles even though the pattern calls for size 7. So, when I had to rip it all out, I was able to switch over to my new size 7 needles. Last night, I finally caught up to where I was when I noticed the mistake.
I also have plans to make a pair of socks for my mom for Mother's Day. I was working on those, but discovered that I'd dropped a bunch of stitches along the way. *sigh* Apparently it was "drop a stitch" week for me last week. Needless to say, it set me back quite a bit on my projects. I'll get those restarted soon. And then there is the Anniversary Shawl knit along that I'm starting in May.
See? I said I was getting in over my head here. I have no clue how I'll get all of this finished in time, but the lace shawl I'm doing in May is probably the one that will suffer the most. I'll just be sure to get the pattern saved and work on it as I can. My first priority will be the socks and the two scarves.
For right now, I'm exhausted. So, I'm going to cheat a little bit and go take a nap so that I can knit my little heart out all afternoon long. I'm hoping to get Falling Water finished ASAP so I can get it blocked and start on the socks. Whee! The joys of getting in over my head.
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