Happy Happy Spring Break!!

Can you believe it is Spring Break already?  It sure has not felt like Spring Break lately....but I think this week is supposed to show me some mid 70's temperatures....Yahoo!!!

On to the knitting!  What have I done....what have you done?  I did not get too much knitting in this weekend.

I finished that Aviator hat for my friend.....I tried to crochet on the goggles, but it did not look good....so I got some felt from Hobby Lobby, cut out the eyes, made 2 crochet chains, and glued them on the felt, and sewed down the eyes....what do ya think?

I mailed it last week and the recipient should get it today!

I pulled out something pretty old this past week.  A friend of mine is working on her Vitamin D sweater....so I pulled mine out....I thought I had put it away because it was so big, but I put it away because that dog I had years ago (I called him Little Shit, but his name was Tito) had chewed my yarn......now, I must have thought I was thinner in 2012....because this is size Lg, and I always make size XL, so I think I will cast on a new one in a bigger size and then frog this one (for some reason, it always makes me feel better to have the new one to the same place as the old one before frogging....yes, I am weird)!

In pulling out old things......I pulled out a sweater I started for Celeste in 2010 (pattern is Pink Orchard).  I had her try it on (and of course Antonio had to try it on too), and I was able to finish it late last night.....I still need to wash it as you can see where my needles hung out for a very long time. (In my defense, I gave this to a lady in 2013 to seam the button bands, but she never got to it and she just mailed it back to me this past December....I hate seaming!!!) I seamed the button bands, added buttons, made the picot edging in bottom of body, did one sleeve, and did the ribbing around the neck this past weekend...that is all it needed.

I had Antonio and Paige over on Tuesday, then on Thursday we went to my parents house for Paige to cut our family member's hair (my dad, nephew, BIL)....then on Friday I had Celeste, Antonio and Cataleya.....Cateleya and Celeste went home Friday night, but Celeste came right back to play all day Saturday.  I had Antonio from Friday to Sunday and I pick him up again today....Paige has been working a bunch of hours......so, the only other knitting I really got done was a little bit on my socks, a few rows on my thousand tulips....and.....I started another Yowza Shawl!  What can I say.....I love this pattern!  I started it with some new yarn....so I will just post pics of my stash enhancements as well.

Okay, so as I stated earlier....I had lots of grand kids this past weekend....well, I took them to Walmart and I got myself a new pair of PJ's......I also got them a ton of toys, but the PJ's are so cute!

Well, I think that might be all I have....I will now kill you with pics and a video of the grand kids.

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!

It's March......already!

Wow does time fly!  It is already March 2nd.  Which means....today is my first day back at work since January 27th....Yuck!  I have had a busy week.......Instead of jumping to the knitting, I am going to jump to stash enhancements.....one of these I got last week, but I did not want to show it along with all the retreat talk.....This is a needle holder that Darlene got me as another part of my birthday gift (I keep telling you guys she is too good to me!)...it is by Grace's Cases.....and I LOVE the sheep material....it matches the same material I have for my sock needle interchangeable set.

I love this case.....it holds A LOT of my needles!  4 sets!!!

I also got some yarn....I got some Knit Picks DK because I want to make a Newsboy Hat.  I got some more Miss Babs Yowza in the BFF colorway (this may be another Weigh it shawl because I love them so much), I got some Miss Babs K2 Chunky in the Deep Sea Jellyfish colorway to make the Lattice Cowl, I had a friend contact me for a baby hat as a gift......so I got some Baby Bee Hushabye solids in brown and beige, my turtle purl yarn came in for a pair of socks for me, and then I got a wonderful surprise when I got back to work....a lady on ravelry (her name is Debbie) saw my pom pom blankets that I made and she had a skein of pom pom yarn in greys and purples....and she sent it to me!  She said she was never going to make anything with it so she sent it to me (she even included a pattern).....Thank you soooooo much Debbie!  I love it!

 

My birthday was this past weekend....and my daughter is soooooo awesome, she cleaned my entire yarn room:

BEFORE:

AFTER:

VIDEO:

I love it sooooo much!  Oh, and as she was cleaning it.....Paige said she found a little baby in a basket.....ha, ha!

This past weekend I also took a trip to Paris......Paris, TX that is!  It is a long story, but Jaime was going with a friend, friend's wife, and friend's wife's sister.....so I tagged along for a knitting ride!  The friend rented a big bus A class RV....and we traveled in comfort!  It was snowing in Paris, so I got a few snow selfies:

I also finished my 2nd Weigh it Shawl...and I took a picture of it in the snow

I played yarn chicken with this shawl......and I lost.  I used a solid black in a fingering weight to finish bind off.  I may see if anyone on ravelry has some of this yarn, but I doubt I will buy another skein just for the end....if I take a close up...it is pretty obvious...but this shawl is for me and it does not bother me that much to have the solid black in the bind off.

I worked on my rainbow socks....and I love these!

I also worked on that mystery KAL....I got 3 rows done...I know that does not seem like a lot, but there are 1083 stitches for 1 row and 903 for the other two rows....I still have 8 more rows to finish clue 2 (and clue 3 came out today), but every other row does some decreases to get it down to 363 stitches :)

I finished Antonio's 2nd Ninja Turtles Hat.

And, I started that baby hat for a friend (where I got the brown and beige yarn above).  The pattern is like this....

But I am going to TRY to add these goggles:

Here is the start:

Well, I think that is all I have.....I am going to leave you with some pictures from my trip to Paris, TX....they have an Eiffel Tower with a Cowboy Hat!!

Here I am with Jaime for an Eiffel Tower Selfie

These are the dogs that traveled with us..Sophie in the red to the left and Missy in her bed to the right.

Now just some nice snow pictures:

(I do not know why this last one is so 'bluish').

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!