My Favorite Salad

More on my Whole30 and a little knitting.

Questions asked at work.

So Anne, What are you eating?

I am eating Monkey Salad.

Monkey Salad

Shaved unsweetened coconut, cashews, banana = Bliss and a filling, nourishing addition to breakfast. This really gets me through the work day.

Newest benefit from eating my way through my Whole30.

I have had a tremor in my hands for years. It is almost gone.

Next benefit the energy to knit.

I finished these dang socks. I only had to do the kitchener.

Misi Alpaca Hand Paint Sock Yarns

It is to hot to wear wool socks in FL. so I hung them in the garden for the day. More on the garden later.

  

Anne

Olympic Knitting

I have to say this is the silliest sweater I have ever seen.

I need my own knitting to get me through the Olympics.
Have had this in my to do pile for a long time.

  Diane Soucy Pattern Link

I am using Plymouth Yarns Jelly Beans. I have used it before and I love how it works up and is washable for kids.
On sale at Webs. Webs Closeout Sale

Now to get started.  I have been slogging through the winter time blues.  Not easy to do living in Florida, but there you have it. I don't always make sense.  Time to get some knitting underway and pull myself up out of the doldrums.  Just watching the Olympics will help.  Hard not to watch all that young healthy talent and not want to make the most of your own day.
Anne

Dropped

Dropped a stitch...

this is what happens when you knit in the middle of the night.

pulled it all the way back up to the top.

Back in business!
and
Thanksgiving was...

My Cape Cod Sunrise

Apple Pie

Happy Gramma with her babies

The table not covered with knitting and vintage Etsy finds

Adorable Brennan

Mya saying no more pictures Gramma

 wonderful. Full of blessings. 

Harmony

Knit Picks Harmony Interchangeable Knitting Needles arrived in the mail.
Oh happy day! Knit Picks

Knitting Mail The Best Mail!

I cannot begin to tell you the night and day difference. The knitting is STAYING ON THE NEEDLES.

and the points ARE ABLE TO PICK UP LITTLE STITCHES.

I know I am the last person to learn this about good knitting equipment.

My Shade Loving Shawl Ravelry  just might get finished now. 

Just Sit and Just Knit

Wouldn't it be lovely
to just sit and knit? 

This sweet old woman is doing just that while her dear husband reads. 
I found this photograph in a box of my mother's things.  
I think she is a little overdressed for knitting.
Anne

Knitting and Cats

Mary was happy to see me arrive home from Boston.

She waddled over and sat on my knitting bag as soon as I unpacked.

Then of course she gave my Misti Alpaca and Tahki Cotton Classic Lite a good sniff. I love when yarn comes in the mail. Thank you Webs for the wonderful sale. Webs 

It is good to be home, but I shall miss these two little boys every day.

Gramma Anne

Sam's Felix

Sam looks so handsome in sweaters.  I had to make him a preppy cardigan.  It remains to be seen how it is going to fit him.  I am flying to Boston this afternoon and then he will be able  to try it on in between cuddles. 

The pattern is here.  I really liked the pattern and the directions are great.  Next time I would shape the sleeves. 
I used Plymouth Yarn on close out at Webs. here I see they are running out of colors.  Glad I stocked up when it first went onto clearance.  It is DK, but really so full I would think it is a little more like a worsted.  Of course I didn't do a swatch.....so....what do I know. 

I have the same yarn in another color that is now sold out. It is packed and going with me so I can make a pullover sweater for Sam's big brother Leo while I am in Boston.  
I have also packed airplane sock knitting, and green cotton for a Yoga wrap for my daughter.  I will be holding babies so probably won't get a lot of knitting done, but you never know. There are after all all those hours between midnight and six am. 
Anne ;)

Puerperium

Knitting for Samuel has been getting me through some pretty rough days this past week.

My favorite newborn sweater pattern has to be Puerperium It is so darn cute with it's little row of buttons down the side.  

And then there is the absolute sweetness of my son with his little boy Samuel.

I made the top sweater with worsted on size 6 needles. 

This little sweater is in DK on size 7 needles. They turned out about the same size.

Sam was over 8 pounds at birth and growing fast.

Samuel

One more week and I will be holding this little Sam. Gramma is flying to Boston.

Yarn Mail

My favorite mail. Yarn delivery.

yummy yarns from webs. wools, silky alpaca for my first lace shawl, cool green cotton for a ballet wrap. knit one purl two.

I Went To The Sale

Webs is having a big sale.Webs
I am lost in it.
That is where you will find me.
Running like a lunatic between Ravelry patterns and inspiration ideas and Webs row after row of woolly, silky, threads. 
My Paypal is molten.
I may need an intervention. This is going to go on til end of May.

this is not my picture so credit goes to the genius that created it.  This is what wool does.  It goes crazy. 
Ane

Two Little Boys

Happy to announce that Leo and Samuel have come face to face!
Samuel was in the NICU in the hospital and Leo couldn't visit him there.  It was decided to wait for the homecoming four days later.

I am chomping at the bit plane tickets in hand to get to Boston and see these little boys for myself.  There are pictures and then there is the real sniffing, kissing, and embrace as Leo attests to here. 
This photo just melts my mother's heart.  

Gramma Anne

While I wait I am knitting and these little booties are finished.

They are called Stay-on Booties... We shall see about that. I never met a pair of booties that stayed on. Stay-on Booties

Easter Eggs

I love spring!

Modeling the cat's eye vintage aluminum eyewear I picked up at a yard sale this am.  Looking mighty dorky~ Cat's Eye Aluminum Eyewear here

Blocking Mya's Easter sweater in the sunshine. It's a Kina pattern here and I will make it again and again in much better yarn. That said I really do like this yarn Cuddle Muffin for how soft it is and how perfect for Florida it is. Cuddle Muffin

The bunnies and I had some fun stuffing eggs for tomorrows hunt.

Of course I haven't done one lick of real work today.  I should make the scalloped potato's for tomorrows dinner.  We'll see...
I have been having so much fun thinking about making a hooked rug and I found the most amazing inspiration by Susie Stephenson rug hooking with yarn and have been wondering if I should buy one of these beginner kits for rug hooking with wool ...

available here on Etsy Sharon Perry's Etsy  I am so tempted.

I will be burning the midnight oil trying to figure out this latest burning ambition to be a hooker.
Anne

Spring Baby Blooms

It's knit all done...where is that baby?

little stay on booties the pattern is free on Ravelry here I went down needle sizes to  sz 6 and sz 4.  with worsted weight.

The hat is also a free pattern. One that I love and have made many times.  Also on Ravelry here
My adaptation for the hat is to use size 6 needles to make it more of a newborn size.  
I like to add the leaf also instead of just having the perky little top knot.  The leaf...yup you guessed it free on Ravelry here It is the best leaf EVER. It is double sided and you knit it all up at once on 3 dp's.  The booties and the hat are all worsted weight.  The little blankets are bulky knit. I used this pattern free on Ravelry here with bulky yarn and size 15 needles.  Approx 220 yds.
All set baby! You can come out now!
Gramma Anne

Waiting for Baby

There is a new baby arriving soon to my family. Everything about this wee one will be a surprise until the grand entrance into the world is made.  Very exciting, but as a Gramma who knits and loves color it is a challenge.  
Greens and yellows it is!
A little color work for a leaf top hat Berry Baby Hat

The blankets are small and meant to be used as carriage blankets or over the car seat.  Just a little soft squishy cover. Gleeful Baby Blanket

Mom and big brother are waiting too! 

Anne

Bunny Knitting

Will you please make somebunny outta me?

What a mess ... a heap... let me see what I can do.

Looking a little Alien...hoping...

Phew... I think somebody will love me now.

weelambie knits.

A collection of Etsy Animals in hopes of spring.  From It's A Madcap Life Team on Etsy. 
Enjoy, Anne

The Big Brown Delivery Truck

After ten days of anticipation the UPS truck finally arrived with my box of yarn from Lion Brand Yarn

I have a custom order for my Knits By Weelambie  

 

and that Poodle Pink yarn is greatly needed along with Duckie and Sweet Pea.
I would like a job dreaming up color names. 

This yummy green is called Seagrass and there is a little baby arriving in April that will snuggle up in it.

That buttery yellow is called Honey Bee it is so soft and chunky.  I don't know what it is going to become yet, but I can't wait to finish all the pink up and get on to the yellows and greens.
I see spring in a box!
Anne