No Time To Blog

I admit it. I am a pathetic blogger. I have really been too busy the past few months. I have found out I am going to be a grandmother for the first time. How cool is that? It's about time at my age.

I haven't been spinning as much. I have been busy knitting instead. I am working on my second Baby Surprise Jacket. Elizabeth Zimmermann has a wonderful pattern here. All you have to do is look on Flickr to see all the variations - well, not all the variations because they are endless. I am almost finished with this second little jacket and want to start a third. This pattern must have some addictive qualities to it. I think I will move on to another pattern of hers immediately and see if the same holds true. For all of you on Flickr who are also on Ravelry, if you want to show your projects to the group but don't want a prospective giftee to see it, all you have to do is bury your photo deep in your Flickr stream. How do you do that? Thought there wasn't a way to organize your pictures in Flickr? There is a place to change the date that you uploaded the photo. I didn't figure it out - another of my brilliant children did. I know the preggers one doesn't have the time to digging back through my old photos for fun.

Dawn Adcock has some wonderful notes for this pattern and I have the pattern in two of EZ's books but I broke down and bought the wonderful DVD that her daughter Meg has showing how this pattern breaks down and some wonderful variations on it. I think I will have to get more of her videos from Schoolhouse Press. This is a truly wonderful DVD. This video takes all of the guesswork out of it. Not only that, it is filmed mostly in the upper midwest which makes me think of my wonderful Michigan. We were transplanted to Louisiana in 1995 and while I love the deep south in the winter, I miss Michigan in the summer. No fire ants. No fire ants. No fire ants. lol Sitting on a blanket under a tree just doesn't seem like an option down here. I can't complain too much, though. I was able to plant pansies and snapdragons a few days ago. The few nights we have in the 20s doesn't seem to hurt them much.