Clue #4 for the Rose City Yarn Crawl Mystery Knit Along is bigger than the earlier ones, I think. I finished Clue #3 last Sunday and I'm not even halfway through this one. However, the project is too big to be able to spread out without having a longer circular needle.
Each clue comes out on Wednesday, so while I was waiting, I started the Melt the ICE Hat. I had a remnant of red worsted-weight yarn, left over from the iPhone tote I made for our vet's mother.
I finished it on Tuesday. I made the ribbing an inch shorter than the pattern said because I was afraid I was going to run out of yarn. I have a small head, anyway.
All this knitting has taken its toll. This often happens to me when I use small metal needles. I poked a hole in my finger. It didn't bleed, but I wanted to protect it from further damage. I had some nonadhesive bandage left over from a vet visit, so I wrapped the finger with a little of the bandage. (I wash my hands a lot, so regular bandaids don't stay put.
We walked almost every day. Charlie joined us when he could. There's a housing development being constructed in the woods we like to walk in, but there's still quite a bit of it untouched as yet, so we can let the dogs off for a bit when we walk there.
When I was walking the dogs without Charlie on Saturday, Dusty picked up a stick while we were still on the trail. He carried it for about half a mile. I told him he didn't need it, because we were going to the woods, where sticks abound. I told him he was "carrying coals to Newcastle," but he didn't get it.
The weekend was spent to a large part in front of the TV, with the Olympics, which brought back memories from the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, when we both worked as volunteers.
Then there was the Super Bowl. That kept us busy.
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What's on my iPhone: Still The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles, on theAudiobooksNow app. I'm about halfway through.
What's on my sewing machine: Now put away until I can start the quilt I have in my head.
What's in The Doll's Storybook: Pippa learns all the fun things you can do in the snow as early days continue to be the focus of The Doll's Storybook. Here's Pippa's First Snow.
What's my tip of the week: We often buy big bags of frozen vegetables and cheese from Costco. For ease in using them, I divide them up into 4-6 serving amounts or amounts needed for recipes, such as 1 C of mozzarella cheese for lasagna. They go into the freezer, organized in the big plastic boxes left over from greens.
Where are my books: The stories in each book first appeared in the blog, and they are reproduced in print with a few changes.
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Note: This blog post was produced on the iPad and the MacBook, using the iPhone for some photos and some photo processing. No other computer was used in any stage of composition or posting, and no Windows were opened, waited for, cleaned or broken. No animals or dolls were harmed during the production of this blog post.
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