I went "home" to VA because my GREAT Aunt Pat was coming to visit my parents and sister (she just had a new baby boy about 6 months ago, her second boy). So the husbeast and I traveled as well to see the only living relative in the US on my fathers side. I think she's 76.

There is my lovely Aunt, I think we look a bit alike. We have curly hair on both sides of the family. So it turns out my Aunt Pat doesn't knit and was never very good at it. She told me a story about how she learned as a child and the nuns would send them home (she is catholic, from Ireland) to "turn the heels" on their socks. Well she said her grandmother wound up doing it for her because she was so awful at it. However her sister (my grandmother!) used to knit all the time and liked it and was good at it. She would knit my Aunt Pat clothing for school. She told me once she knit Aunt Pat a whole entire suite (sounded like a skirt and jacket). She also once knit my aunt a dark pretty earthy green sweater with a beige strip across the chest and sleeves, plain stockinette with a round neck. She requested I knit her a sweater. Am I up to it? I never finish anything!

You will notice in the photo above she has a knit scarf on, that's the scarf I finished probably well over a year ago, and I brought it for her as a gift. She gifted me right back the next day. I dragged her and my father to "the knitting basket" in Richmond. My dad caused a bit of a stir, "there is a gentleman in the shop!" I heard one women say.

I got some yummy Rowan Tapestry to make another multi-directional scarf. I'll think of her whenever i knit and wear it. It matches my camel colored new winter coat perfectly and fades to a pretty blue/gray color (SH 175). It's $9 a ball from that shop, and is 131 yards of a wool/soybean protein blend. It's very soft and the perfect gauge (22/4in on US 6). It smells very clean (I always smell my yarn heh).

On all of the plane rides I have taken I worked on the Plymouth baby cardi in the lovely "Oh My!" yarn. Oh did I tell you I brought my Joy? I made it through security with no issues. On the way back to Atlanta the guy said, "Is that a violin?" "No, it's a spinning wheel" "Oh, I have never seen one that small before". I thought, oh wow he's seen one before? He didn't bat an eye at it, however the young girl in front of the scanner made several scrunched up faces that said "what the hell" and the same guy said to her "oh that's just a spinning wheel". It made me giggle. I also made it through with my Ebony spindle and my size 9 circulars with no questions or issues.

The dogs were very happy when we picked them up today from the kennel.

It always makes me smile when they are so comfortable so close to each other, because most sheltie's get a bit huffy if other dogs touch them. They aren't like goldens that want to wrestle and roll with you.