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April 8, 2007
Happy Easter!
I'm taking it easy this Easter, just a quiet dinner at home with my husband and maybe a friend who's all by herself for the holiday. It's quite a change from the Easters of my childhood, with the huge holiday meal at my grandma's, followed by either (a) either anticipating the egg hunt while my aunt and uncles hid the eggs or (b) as an older kid, hiding the eggs for my younger cousins. There are certain places that eggs were always hidden - I'll let you in on the secret since they aren't any cousins young enough to do an egg hunt this year: in the mailbox, in the gutter downspout, at the base of the tulips, balanced in various tree branches too high for the kids to reach, in the clohespin bag hanging on the clothesline, and in a crevice of a tree where a branch used to be.
Whew! Luckily, we won't be running short on kidlets next year, because my aunt and uncle are in China right now picking up their new two-year-old daughter! I'm very excited to meet my new cousin.
Oh yeah - the picture! I finished the Moss Stitch Hand Towel from Mason Dixon Knitting. Here's the details:
Yarn: Euroflax linen - 1 skein
Needle Size: Size 5
Skills needed: cast on, knit, purl, cast off
Pattern Modifications: None!
Time to knit: March 24 - April 4 Ahhh... a nice quick knit. Actually, it got a little tedious by the end, but I wanted to finish it to see what the linen fabric would be like after it washed.
Final impressions: Well, I doubt I'll be knitting a whole collection of linene handtowels, but it does make a really nice finished product. The moss stitch squares provide a nice texture when you're drying your hands, and the towel dries really fast after use, which is something I can't say for the cotton warshrags from MDK.
Posted by zarah at April 8, 2007 7:29 AM
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Happy Easter! The towel looks great - I can't believe you finished it already! It's moving near the top of my list - hopefully, I can start it next week.
Posted by: Tammy at April 8, 2007 3:20 PM
Nice job! I'm still admiring your lizard ridge, though ... but I do have the thought that maybe some day my house will be full of handknit linen cloths. we'll see ...
Posted by: Jenifer at April 8, 2007 5:48 PM
Happy Easter! Quiet holidays are fun. We had a busy one, but it was a good one!
Posted by: Jennifer at April 8, 2007 8:29 PM
Lovely, just lovely! I want to know if you're actually going to use it or if it's just for show. Happy Easter. I'm bummed we couldn't get together for gyros.
Posted by: Tammy at April 9, 2007 4:56 PM
does it sound funny to say, "gosh! that's a really nice hand towel!?" well ... i'm saying it anyways. IT IS.
i always find knitting with such fibers as hemp or liner are rough on my hands ... but the end results are so worth it. i have a few summer tanks knitted with hemp, which is the perfect fiber for living in the balmy hot south.
your friend is fortunate to spend the holiday with y'all. i had the same fortune here ... spending the day with my favorite couple and another friend.
Posted by: gray la gran at April 12, 2007 5:09 PM
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