Knitting Club

Pattern: Gem, from Heartfelt by Kim Hargreaves

Yarn: Manos wool

Hook: Size H

Notes: I tried to use this yarn for a lacy scarf (Haven, from the same book) but the severely thick and thin character of the yarn kept the formula from standing out.  So I decided that I would hold another Gem, a hat I made last year from Noro Kochoran.  I truly enjoy this pattern - it’ my favorite hat, flattering on most people, takes about an hour to crochet.  I left out one growth and one decrease round to get up for my thicker yarn.  It’s slightly slouchy, but not overly so.  By the way, I’m reading my copy of “Toilet Roll Covers,#8221; that my friend Althea gave me.  I know this book (it’s the one with the pig on the cover.  I’m definitely going to be making some of these for christmas gifts this year, silly though they are!

As you may (or may not) have heard, we in Louisville were among the victims of the wind storm on Sunday (or “Windstorm 08″ as the local news has not so cleverly dubbed it.  I know in a piece of town that contains tons of old houses, and a like number of old growth trees ready to fall.  75% of the metropolis was without power - I believe we were the only street in our country not to lose power, so we do feel very lucky.  We lost a lot of shingles off our roof, which will be replaced tomorrow.  I took some pictures of the damage (these are from a single block surrounding our house… I did not go look for the most damage.)

The metropolis is pretty shut down - I am off work for the week, and have been walking the places I want to go to deflect the many streets that are still blocked.  I hold also finally gotten to the paper in our bedroom.

Unfortunately, as you know, in an old house every room has a surprise.  The storm in this room?

Why yes, that is mold underneath the wallpaper.  Apparently at some detail in the past 25 years the roof leaked underneath the paper by the window, although it would look not recently.  Forunately it’s but that one little spot over the window, but still… icky.  I am really happy that we took the theme down - I would hate to continue sleeping in a board with that going on underneath!

I too experience a cold this week, so I’m eating lots of soup, knitting on my tweedy cardigan (60% done! and wear a mask if I take to go into “the mold room” as I am now calling it.

Sorry if I haven’t responded to anyone’s emails this week - we haven’t had reliable internet service until today!