whole lot of knitting...

There is a whole lot of knitting going on here - at least if you look at the list of projects I have going on. 3 shawls, 2 scarves, 3 sweaters, 2 pairs of socks. If you look at the actual progress on the projects wellll...

Two of the shawls are for friends of mine - twins who will be 50 in September. One is in fingering weight wool and one is in lace weight silk. One twin in Washington state and one in Hawaii. I let you figure out which shawl goes where. :-)

One sweater is for a baby due in September. Just the hems and the button band to go on this one, but it has been stalled out for the last 6 weeks. The other two sweaters are very long term projects. Let's just say it is a good thing my children have stopped growing.

The rest of the projects don't have due dates so no urgency is going into the knitting. Pick up and knit one of them when I get tired of the birthday shawls.

I have spinning on the wheel. Same roving that has been there for the last month. This too is a bit by bit project without a time line.

On the work front - still two jobs. Lots of overtime and additional responsibilities in one. Becoming an FTO (field training officer) has severely cut into my daily knitting time/moments.

It is hotter than heck here in the Pacific Northwest. As I work outside for much of the week I don't have energy left to do much of anything at the end of the day. No A/C in our house. Most years we don't need it more than 6 days out of the summer. This month alone it would have been nice for at least 14 days so far.

-- Mavis