February goes out like a lion

On the Needles
Well it was a cold February or the end of it was. The 22nd started with rain and hail or sleet mix, had more sleet or hail so much that it looked like a covering of snow. I tried covering up my legs with a prayer shawl but wanted to wrap it around. So now one of my projects is a lap robe made with ...Lion Brand Home Spun. (gasp! oh horror!) so homespun that might have gotten donated to the Goodwill is being put in use. Mom suggested knitting some others to donate to retirement homes and such. So I might see about doing that after I finish this one. Got seven color sections done, green, yellow, orange, red, olive green and oatmeal, now I'm on a second section of yellow. I will try and take a picture. But the pattern is since prayer shawls are 57 or 60 stitches across, so the lap robe is 120 stitches across, hoping to make it the 60 inches long so far I'm a third of the way there so we'll see if I need any more Homespun.

Then working on mom's shawl in the raspberry wool in the Meadow Flowers pattern by Donna Kay from Knitter's Stash. And then working on a smaller version for my neice, same yarn but in pink color since she like's pink.

And just now starting on a pair of socks for dad as a birthday present. Hopefully I will have them ready for him by this weekend but that may be too much for me to hope for.  I still have a pair of socks that I was making for him to finish I can only say that the pattern is more complicated than a pair of vanilla socks for my excuse.


Behind the Wheel
I will admit it has been awhile since I've done any spinning I still have a little bit black wool to finish spinning from a roving I got downtown, then to ply it up. Maybe sometime this week I'll get it taken care of.

The Write Life
March is NaNoEdMo National Novel Editing Month. Though after failing to get 100 hours editing done last year and last years novels from NaNoWrMo National Novel Writing Month I think I'll pass. Though I am still writing, working on my novels from November 2010 and some other writing ideas.