Staying in

At the moment, it's raining ice. ICE. Seriously. Raining I.C.E.  I was going to drive to town and deliver the baby hats I have collected so far to the Cascade Medical Team meeting, but not now. My little car doesn't dance with ice. It might, but I don't want to take that chance.

     Now that I think about it, I haven't said much about CMT.(Cascade Medical Team, not CMT music station- get it straight, now..;) The link the their website: http://www.cmt-oregon.org/Site/Welcome.html
My good friend, Jill is a surgical tech that started going last year. Her parents go almost every year. They travel to Solala, Guatemala, set up a surgical unit in an old military base, and perform much-needed surgical procedures for the inhabitants. But there is MUCH more to it than I can say here. Midwives, Construction teams, and a support team all go. I believe there were over a hundred people that went, on their own dime last year. Jill and I cannot go at the same time because our work won't allow it. (There are only two of us who do our job)
    
     You should look into it. If you feel the urge, make a hat, a scarf, or socks for the newborns. They are about the size of our preemies. (4 pounds or less) the Oregon knitter's group on Ravelry has my mailing address, and if you private email me through this blog, I will give it to you. I will get them to the team. I want to go next year for certain. I suppose I need to start a fundraiser for me to go.

     Way back early December, the owner of the business where I did the Bazaar had me design a hat for her daughter-in-law. Here's what I have so far:

I'm learning how to chart and design. It's fun. It's also annoying. Especially when you're trying to concentrate, and distractions like email, kids, phone calls, and studying get in the way. ;) I think I counted the same row almost three times, and still had to write it down. Maybe I just have too much going on. sigh. Big, deep, from-the-toes sigh.

I also organized my bags for the Sock of the Month group on Ravelry:

I have a bunch of Sockotta yarn from almost 10 years ago (!!) that needs to get knitted up. I put those in the bags. I decided to just pick a random bag, then decide on a pattern. Self-striping yarn doesn't look good with certain patterns. I'm stubborn about that. Not wasting my hand-time on an ugly sock.

This is what happens when the wrong hands get into the yarn box. I salvaged most of it, but still followed the KISS theory and cut the tangled mess off.

I don't have near as much acrylic as I thought I did. That's a good thing. The pile is dwindling steadily. I am pleased with that. What I do have an ungodly amount of, is cotton. I'm thinking, "crocheted rugs' and "dishrags". Soon.



Have a wonderful Sunday. I have a date with Jack Skellington and a hat project.