This Wednesday Morning

I started this sweater with just the idea of texture stitches for the neck and sleeves, nothing fancy.  But somehow during the knitting, I wanted to add something to it so I knitted the a purple triangle using fingering weight yarn and joined to the main body as knitted.  I have no idea just what is wrong with me that I can rarely stick to original plans.  Definitely not a very focused person here.

It was simple construction, top down in round with raglan sleeves.

The yarn was Knit One Crochet One Camelino in grey and Naturally Heaven in deep purple. Both were purchased from Elann and sat in my stash for a long time. I used US #7 needles for the main body and #3 for the insert traingle.

Buttons came actually as a set with a third one that I skipped and bought them at Joann's.

This is a very warm and cozy sweater that I think I may actually wear it often.

Slopestyle Pattern

Thanks to all of my wonderful testers, Donna, Jennifer, Momo, Sarah, and Terry for their amazing help,the
Slopestyle pattern is finally up and available via Ravelry.

I realized if I procrastinate the editing any longer it may never get done considering all the stuff I am having to deal with now. I should be excited about its publication, but truthfully I'm actually more relived to have one more thing crossed off my TO DO list.

Now I'm getting ready to drive down to Bay Area for the weekend to be with family.

Life knida blew up on me this week.

On Tuesday I got a call from my little sister that mom's breast cancer may be back and spreading to other parts of body.  Today both her and my older sister told me they got the confirmation of the bad news from the doctor.

It's gonna be a rough road ahead of us.  Besides being completely scared, I'm also numb from the shock. At the same time, I feel guilty that my sisters are shouldering all the responsibilities of arranging and taking my mom to all the appointments, yet I can only pitch in very little.

Early this week I finally settled down to start a new knitting project, but after the first call from my sister, I'd only been able to knit 2" so far.  Every time I sat down to knit I'd do one or two rows then I couldn't continue it any more.

Just when I though I'd finally found some solid ground under my feet....   I will be driving down to Bay Area and visit my parents next week.