Baby Blanket Mania

I know that I haven't posted much about my knitting projects lately; however that doesn't mean that I have stopped knitting. On the contrary, I still manage to have something handy to work on wherever I happen to be. During the hottest part of the summer, I made a LOT of dishcloths.

When we left on vacation, I took a lot of yarn with me, and a lot of knitting needles, and a bunch of patterns. Oddly enough, I ended up coming home with not much to show for my week away. When we took off on the canoe trip, I took much less yarn with me, and didn't get a whole lot accomplished then either.

However, since returning home I've finished up two baby blankets. I had some leftover baby sport yarn in white and yellow and I thought that I could use it up and decrease my stash a bit. The resulting project, Little Hearts, is a variation on my contest entry full size afghan shown here.
Here is a close-up of the heart blocks:
Unfortunately, the use-up-the-yarn-stash plan totally backfired as I ran out of yellow yarn on the last row of the final set of heart blocks and had to purchase another 11 ounce skein of yellow to complete the blanket. Now I have almost a whole skein of yellow yarn sitting around in my stash.

The second blanket was a special request from one of my church friends. She asked me to make a pink blanket using the same pattern I had made before as another of her friends will be having a baby soon. I finished it up and took it to her at church this morning.

Coming up:

• a country blue and white Double Hearts afghan for a friend at church
• a prayer shawl for my cousin who lost her husband this week at 56 years old
• another prayer shawl for a young friend who will be baptized next month
• another baby blanket for a yoga friend
• a pair of socks and a nordic hat for another friend
• a dozen water bottle covers in purple and red for someone to give her Red Hat friends as gifts (anyone know where I can find purple and red variegated yarn?)
  
• a whole bunch of fruit hats in preparation for the Historical Society's Fall Festival coming up in September.

Guess I should really get off the computer and get busy knitting!

A New Venture for Me

Well, it appears that things are looking up on the employment front. This morning I met with the Community Education coordinator for Lincoln Land Community College at their Litchfield campus, and it was a very fruitful meeting. Starting this fall I will be providing one-on-one computer tutoring for their Community Education department. I have also been asked to submit a proposal for a knitting class, and possibly some other classes are in the making.

When the new fall schedule is published it will be available here. Of course the one-on-one tutoring is entirely dependent on having people sign up to be tutored, so if you know anyone in need of some basic computer skills, be sure to pass the word!