Easter Weekend WIPs

Why on earth, you may well wonder, am I up and blogging at 7:43 a.m. on Good Friday morning? Well, I had planned to get up eight-ish and do some spring cleaning and baking but Squeeky decided I needed to wake up earlier. She decided this by using my face as a launching pad to jump up on the headboard - ever been woken by a cat's back nails dragging across your (closed) eyes? Not fun. Fortunately no damage other than a first-skin-layer scratch (yes, I cleaned it and put Polysporin on it right away). But since I was up anyway... here's what I'm working on (other than housecleaning and visits) this weekend:

You could call this the small, medium, large, extra large approach to knitting! First up, Mom's mother's day socks (#2 woohoo!), in Fleece Artist Nova Sock, on 2.25 mm needles. Cast this one on Wednesday night and got nearly to end of the ribbing, then got a couple inches of leg done whilst at the Yarn Forward sit'n'knit yesterday afternoon/evening. Hi Yvonne! Yvonne was there, also making Fleece Artist socks, using Magic Loop - it looks neat, I may have to learn that eventually.
Then we have Crunchy Granola Hat - child size prototype - in Bernat Handicrafter Cotton on 6mm needles. The pattern does seem to work as well in cotton as it does in acrylic and wool and hemp - of course, I don't like knitting cotton as much but because this is a loose gauge it's not too hard on the hands. To make it kid-size I've cut the cast-on stitches by half and am reducing the pattern repeats by half before starting the decreases. I think that should work. Cute in pink, no?
Third, I finally - finally! - got the ribbing/increase figured out for the Wednesday's Cardigan. Here's about 1/3 of a sleeve (which, incidentally, is most of a ball of yarn). Patons Rumor on 7mm needles. This is going to be SO warm and soft to wear in the office over t-shirts and golf shirts this summer. And not just on Wednesday, either!


And last but most huge, the Wedding Afghan. (N8an if you're reading this, try to act surprised when I give it to you guys!). This is one strand Patons Shetland Chunky and two strands Patons Divine held together, knit on 15mm needles. One. Stitch. To. The. Inch. It takes four balls of each for the pattern and I'm now into the 2nd ball of each. I can say one thing, a person would never be cold with this thrown over them! Which of course makes me want to get'er done while we're still having our cold-ish spell. I don't want to be knitting this when it's more than 10 degrees (celsius) above zero!


So my plan for the weekend is to rotate among these projects and maybe get a couple of things finished. We've got double-feature movie night tonight at B&K's, then Masters golf on TV, another movie, and a hockey game at mom & dad's tomorrow afternoon/evening. Lots and lots of knitting time. Which leaves today and Sunday for chores - ample time for an attack on the walk-in closet/clothing storage area of our bedroom and a seasonal changeover on the front porch. And then next week, I have to be good and study for my Greek/Roman lit. exam in the evenings, which means limited knitting time (an hour a night, max). So I'd better get off my tuckus and get rolling here!

Have a great long weekend everyone!