Still here!

I just realized that my last post was at the end of January! Good grief! I'm still knitting and quilting, but at a slower rate. Why? I don't know. It just is.

And what do I have to show for my efforts? A brand-new Bohus-style yoke sweater. Bottom-up. Endless knitting on body and sleeves. Join them and then the fun begins. I do love Fair Isle knitting. I love any stranded knitting. But this time, I thought I'd play with Bohus knitting. Way back when, Meg Swansen of Schoolhouse Press, did a Wool Gathering on Bohus knitting. I used most of her chart for this sweater, but it's easy enough to do my own. Next one will be a Ruth Bohus sweater.

Yarn is Shetland, my favorite for color work. Mostly Jamieson & Smith with some Spindrift tossed in. 

Quilting? I'm somewhat in between taking pictures. At the moment, I'm binding a leader-ender quilt, and I have 4 more quilts to be bound. Plus one at the quilt shop for longarm quilting, and 3 in progress. I might have too much going on. But they do get finished eventually.

Happy Spring!

Happy Passover! 1st seder is Sat night and I'm Not doing it. Not this year.  Off to DD. It's awfully nice not to have all that work. I do love making a seder, but this is a year for self-care. Both the Hubz and I are still recovering from 2024 and his health issues. 

Getting around

After more than 3 months of my husband suffering with side effects of Keytruda, we are starting to see lots of improvement.  Whew!  What a relief!

He's doing out-patient PT twice/week and doing marvelously!  He can walk safely with a walker, with a cane, and with a shopping cart.  We bought an extra walker that he keeps in the trunk, and wherever he goes, he judges whether to use the walker or just the cane.  

Yes, you read that correctly!  He can drive again! The guy is getting around and loving it!  He's back to doing stuff that he likes:  markets (yes, he's a supermarket freak), thrift shops (yes, he loves thrift shops). It's pretty amazing.  Clearly, the meds are leaving his system.  His therapists say that he is strong and has good balance.  What they are working on is drop foot, and even that is improving.  He found a simple foot brace that's comfortable, and gives proper support. We don't know if this condition is permanent, but he can live almost normally at this point.

What's coming up in the medical world?  Sigh. Fasting blood test on Mon. (that's kind of normal, although he usually doesn't need to fast). On Wed, he has a kidney ultrasound and preps for Thurs PET scan. He sees the oncologist the following week for the PET and blood test results. We're hoping that there are no signs of the cancer.  At this stage, we know nothing, and if it's present, we don't know how it will be treated since immunotherapy is forever out of the picture.  But we'll deal with that when we come to it.

I'm feeling some relief as well as trepidation for the test results.  That's just the way it is.

I'm keeping my sanity as usual by knitting and quilting.

Here's what's on the needles:  a brown Shetland sweater.  It will have drop shoulders and a crew neckline and when it's finished and blocked, all this wonky color work will be smooth and perfect.  Trust me.  I've done tons of this kind of knitting.

The brown is a bit darker, and is a heather.  Beautiful stuff.  All the yarns are J & S Shetland and bought at The Woolly Thistle. I don't knit these things tightly, so a # 3 needle for rib and background, and a #4 for the color work. 

Quilting is wonderful.  The brown and green quilt on the previous post has made it to one of the kids. I donate them to kids and grands and my sister. 

I'm in process of sewing tops together.  Finished 1 with 3 to go. No pics yet. But here's a quilt that I just bound.

Real life color is a bit darker. The top picture is fairly close to reality.