What Season Is It, Anyway???

What a crazy weather roller coaster ride we have been on this week!  One of the pictures above shows what it looked like outside just a week ago today.  It had snowed 6 inches.  That would not be all that remarkable (it is winter after all!) except that the temperatures the week before and this past week were almost 70 degrees!  By Wednesday, every last trace of the snow had melted away.  Yesterday my sister and niece Katie and I went walking on the bike trail in just shirt sleeves.  The temperature was in the upper 60's.  This morning I woke up to snow flurries, and just about an hour ago, the snow really started coming down and now everything is covered.  The hurried "Updated Forecast" now calls for up to 3 inches of snow today.  So, I guess before I head outside I had better drag the heavy coat and mittens and scarves back out!  It sure is pretty to watch, though.  Makes me want to sit and knit! :) 

Speaking of knitting, here is a picture of Juanita with her new scarf on.  It was knit out of Bernat Disco in the color Glad It's Night.  A friend at work has asked me to knit a scarf and hat for her mother for her birthday in March.  I really, really, really want to get away from knitting just scarves for a while and go back to those bags as well as some other "non scarf" items.  One of the things that I really want to knit from is this: 

http://www.berroco.com/galleries/gallery_244/index_244.html

I like most all of these patterns, but the one I really want to do first is the last one as you scroll down on the left -- Megan in Cotton Twist.  My LYS, Backstitches, carries Berrocco yarns and patterns, and I feel a visit to them coming on!  But of course there are so many things I want to knit!  So why did I say "yes" when someone asked me to knit them another scarf?!?!??!?!  I guess because scarves are fast and easy and portable and I can work on them during my lunch hour.  And I am a sucker for the word "Please!"  Oh well, just this one more! 

Still Catching Up

Just a quick post tonight.  I thought that I would add a few more pictures from Christmas.  The first one is Megan, the Family Drama Queen posing in her sequined scarf.  It was done out of Berrocco Laser FX and Trendsetter Perla .  The second picture is of one of my other nieces, Shelby.  Her scarf was knit out of 2 strands of white Lion Brand Fun Fur held together with a strand of white Fancy Fur with the colored slubs.  The last picture is of Cheryle and her knitted capelet.  The pattern is a free one from the Lion Brand Yarn website and the yarn was Lion Brand Jiffy in the color El Paso.  It is really pretty in person.  It reminds me of the trees on a beautiful autumn day. 

I finished knitting the Moonlight Wrist Warmers, but I have not finished sewing them up yet.  I just don't know where all the time goes!  I also finished the Glad It's Night Scarf, but I did not get any pictures of it before I gave it to Juanita last Sunday.  I will get some pictures of her modeling it for me this weekend when we go over there. 

Well, that's it for tonight.  Maybe if I hurry, I can get those wrist warmers sewn up tonight before bedtime!