Feather & Fan Pattern

I posted the Feather & Fan baby afghan pattern, complete with photo, via a link over there in the side-bar. If anyone runs into questions, my email address is there too. I'm almost finished with the center section and then I'll pick up all the YOs along the edge to start the lace. At that point, it's going to start looking like a wad of knitting - sort of like an oriole nest - until I bind off. I probably won't post another picture until it is bound off and finished because it's not going to look like anything until then.

Not having anything of my own to show off at the moment, I'll brag a little on what my DED (Darling Eldest Daughter) has been doing. These are the baby afghans, hats & preemie booties she's been crocheting as her own charity project. Aren't they neat??? I believe that some have already been sent to Iraq. I'm doing a "happy dance" because the crafting genes have kicked in {g}..



A few things I forgot to mention last week. On Thursday our K4 group sent seven more afghans and a shawl to a local nursing home where I'm sure they'll be put to good use even with summer on the way. (You wouldn't know it around here - we had a few moments of snow flurries on Monday and hard frosts the last two nights.) Distributing the afghans gives us a little more room in the three storage containers that are still pretty well filled with hats, scarves & baby items.

The other news, is that I've signed up to teach knitting at the Senior Center - no takers yet, but I'm hoping to lure a few more people into our K4 group. The only charge for the lessons is going to be that we're asking the students to make either a scarf or a hat and donate it to the project. "Come into my web," said the spider to the fly....

Because I've been finishing up the Aibhlinn and starting the baby afghan, I haven't spent as much time as usual on my K4 projects, but I should still have two hats to turn in tomorrow. I finished one up during bingo yesterday and started the second.

And speaking of the Aibhlinn, my grand-daughter, who is all of 4, got a laugh out of the 2nd photo of me in the cowl - the one where it covers me from the nose down. She thinks that I look like a Boobah from a new PBS kids show. I received a call yesterday telling me, between giggles, of the resemblance (fortunately, only from the neck up!)