Mystery Baby Sweater and Stinky’s being helpful

I’m now a grandmother of Nee’s assessory dog, Sweetie Godzilla Princess Moahnee Stinky Choy (name changes each blog) and she was visiting after a bit of a scare. She must’ve eaten something really bad and was acting disoriented and wobbly and wouldn’t eat or drink. We almost had to go to the 24 hour very expensive hospital, but waited. She’s fine now after a big bill for xrays, blood work, sedation and xrays. Everything, except loose bowels — yuck …which explains why she’s convalescing at OUR home, not with the other Princess.

So we had a low key day of knitting with grandma in the backyard on a somewhat blustery day. At one point, she sat on my lap and had the strand of yarn go through her mouth before it got to the knitting needle. Had to put a stop to that little trick quick. “Grandpa” was cooking on the grill and came home early to make sure Sweetie was ok.

I rumaged through my bags of stuff from our Maine trip in April and lo and behold found a kit we purchased in Portsmouth, New Hampshire at a very cute yarn shop, The Yarn Basket on Ladd Street (yarns you yearn for). The lady was so nice and the place was small and cozy, jammed to the ceiling with great looking yarn of many different variety. Examples of very creative and beautiful scarves, sweaters, capes, ponchos, bags, scrugs, you name it, were literally piled on top of each other in this shop. The owner’s name was also Elaine and I felt it was God’s will that we linger and stay there to touch, shop, look, dream, touch some more and ooo and ahhhh.

Well, Pauline and I ditched our spouses and children and stayed there for quite awhile and bought stuff that we forgot about till now. The kit was 2 balls of yarn – MY (Muench Yarns) – Tessin (made in Germany and imported by Muench Yarns Inc of (where else) Petaluma, California (yeah, right next door practically), a pattern and 2 very cute sheep buttons. There is no finished product picture, so we’re going by memory and pattern alone. I think the finished product was a baby striped sweater with a yoke flap in front that buttons on either side of the baby’s chest under the chubby cheeks. We will soon find out. A #10 needle is called for.

This blanket was the finished product for Theresa and Glenn who’s journey to this point of having #2 is nothing short of a miracle. We are still, by faith, anticipating the arrival early next year of their special baby. I used Baby Cloud yarn, #10 again and the 4 square pattern.

The finished pink and green square blanket for Cortney and Kyle’s #1 on the way — shower is this Saturday.

The turquoisey blue part of this diagonal square was yarn bought at Portland, Maine on sale, and since I didn’t plan very well, I ran out of this yarn but found something similar with a lighter blue. This yarn has a mohairy feel to it and I double up with another yarn to mute the turquoise so that it’ll have more of a baby-ish look. This finished baby blanket will be going to Kim and George for their #2 baby, a boy due this year. In Riverside, they don’t need too thick of a blankety, so this should be a good throw for them to use. Big sister Samantha is about 2 years old and has the same birthday as my Princess Nee.

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There is a flurry of knitting during this time of the year, the hottest time of the year, of course, because the rest of the year is devoted to my wonderful first graders. If I had my druthers, I’d be knitting for them. They all need at least a scarf to wear for those 2 – 3 days of real chill in California and their snow trips to Tahoe.