It has been a while...

My goodness how time flies.
This was supposed to be my knitting blog. It looks like I haven't knit a thing. Well that isn't exactly true. I have been doing some top secret knitting and can't say much more. As soon as I get the go-ahead I will post pictures and details.

Now in other news. I started running yesterday. I am doing a run walk program. Yesterday was a warm up followed by 30 sec run followed by 4:30 of walking. Every workout increases the run time or decreases the walk time.
I will let you know my progress.

My goal is to run the 5K for Head for a Cure in August. I will be running as part of Team Mason. Mason is a forever 9 year old boy that my kids attended school with. He had diffuse pontine glioma and died this Spring.

Yesterday would have been his 10th birthday.

Andrea came into my room yesterday morning and said "Do you know what today is?" Of coures I rememebered, but wasn't sure that she was speaking of the same event. (Given that yesterday was the first day of Summer too.) When she didn't say anything more I said, "Today would have been Mason's 10th birthday." She said yes and that we should 'go to his house'. We talked for a few minutes about this. She seemed to have no real plan but just felt we should go. Since I had to go to work, that didn't happen right that moment. As our day got busy there was no more mention of going to the house. I really couldn't figure out what Andrea was going to do or say if she went to the house. Maybe we should have gone. Perhaps the words or actions would have come. But I hope his family knows there were loads of people thinking of him yesterday (and well as just about every day)

So in August I will be running for those who are no longer with us who have lost their battle with brain cancer. On my personal list in addition to Mason there is my mother-in-law whose cancer spread to her brain and my uncle.

Here is hoping their soon is a cure to end the suffering of those with brain cancers.

Stay tuned for more knitting and details about how you can help Head for a Cure.

What I did on Spring Break

This is my Honey Pot One Skein Shawl. It is a test knit for http://www.fickleknitter.com/. I love this pattern and this yarn. It is from Pagewood farms and is a merino/bamboo blend fingering weight yarn. The colorway is Mistletoe. The yarn came from a sock club I was in where I never knit the socks. I think this will give me more opportunity to show of the yarn than a pair of socks. The socks would just be in my shoes most of the time.

Same shawl, different picture. Sorry I couldn't get any human volunteers to model. They were all too busy keeping warm inside.

This is my Limestone One Skein Shawl. It is another Fickleknitter design. You might be noting a theme here. Michelle Miller the mastermind behind Fickleknitter is one of my favorite designers. She has brought me over to the 'dark side' of triangular shawl knitting. This shawl is made from some Shaeffer Anne that was hiding in my stash. It may be destined to be a gift (shhhh as that someone might read this blog)

This shawl wasn't actually finished during Spring Break. But a significant amount of  it was knit during the break, so I think that should count.

I am my own photographer and still working on it. Note the shadow that made it into this shot.

Spring Break

In honor of the last day of Spring Break I have decided to start a new blog. This blog will mostly be devoted to my knitterly adventures. Sometimes my family and their activities may also creep into this blog.

Over the break I have managed to work on a number of projects.

At one point during the week my hubby sent me a text "I think it would be good if the kids saw you cleaning".....Sure, I will get right on that......after I finish my row.

In fitting form, as a good role model, when my hubby walked in the door not only wasn't I cleaning, neither were the kids. My 9 and 11 year olds were sitting in the family room KNITTING! (The 14 year old hasn't come out of her teen cave to clean or knit.)

Ha, wait til WE get to the end of our row!