Gigi's Central Park Hoodie

Gigi's Central Park Hoodie
Originally uploaded by momloves2knit

Orange. Gracie's favorite color. I found some Cascade 220 Heathers in a beautiful orange last week. When I showed it to her, she flipped and exclaimed, "For sweater?!" I was planning to make a pair of felted boots, but a sweater would definitely be much better. After looking through all the magazines and books, we decided to buy the Central Park Hoodie pattern from Knitscene.

I cast on the back Saturday evening and proceeded to knitting. By bedtime I had completed the ribbing and 50 rows up.

On Sunday after church, while I was watching the Jets and Titans play football with my honey, I reached the armhole.


Searching around for other who have knit the CPH on Ravelry.com, I found others who had modified the pattern by using the Short Row method for the armholes, sleeves and shoulders. I did lots of research on the web and in my back issues of Interweave Knits and found some great help. After many attempts and frogging, I finally understood what I was doing and I was off doing knitting short row armholes and shoulders.

Snowing

The Garden Looking Cold


I have been a bit busy lately. Lots of swimming with the girls and knitting. I woke up this morning to SNOW. Can you believe it? It is early to have snow falling here. The kids are thrilled, but we will still do school. Ah, the joy of homeschooling. Don't ya love it...

I grabbed the camera to snap a shot of the snow falling on our home.

The cold has settled in to the mountains and I am so thankful for the geothermal heat pump. You can't believe the warmth it puts out, quickly. The best part is that we can set the temperature at 69 . On sunny days, the sun helps to heat the house too. Typically, the temperature rises to 71 to 74 degrees when the sun is shining. There is no sun today with snow falling.