Lalala…

The husband came home Friday very, very sick. I even called his mother for recommendations on keeping Tylenol in him as I have never dealt with a sick child. I spent the evening and into the early morning doing the wet cloth on the forehead, temperature check, Tylenol routine until the fever broke. Then I stumbled into bed around 4am.

I was planning on going to a holiday party Saturday, but realized almost immediately that it wasn’t going to happen as I didn’t get a chance to wrap a gift, cook a dish or even sleep the night before. I did start my Colorwork Challenge knitting in those slap-happy early morning hours with alpaca yarn left over from other projects. I knit on and off yesterday; it’s going surprisingly fast.

I have every confidence the fabric will smooth out post blocking. I also got started on a pair of Over the Knee Stockings for the little sister. I’m doing a picot hem at the top and will sew in an elastic band to help keep them up. The yarn is a sock weight merino from Malabrigo (before they were Malabrigo and when they did sock yarn) in their Molly Pink colorway that I picked up a couple years ago with the express intent of making stockings for the sister.

Do any of you know where I can get some basic weaving information? I was digging through some things we were storing at the boy’s parents and found this.

My mother bought this back in the day when we were living in Berlin for us girls, around 1988. It’s a little tabletop loom. It’s come apart while sitting in a basement all these years, but I want to glue it back together and give it a whirl. It came with zero instructions. As an aside, I found my first ever knitting attempts in this box. I’ll pull everything out and take some pictures in the next few days. This was the sample attached to the loom when it was purchased.

I’m thinking this may be a good way to use my handspun.