S Plus Two

Two days to go until surgery and I find I have been obsessed with what knitting projects to pack. The average person would worry about all that hospital stuff, not me, knittings on the brain. I can't take my lace project for fear of screwing up which isn't too bad until I have to tink back all those stitches and reknit. I started a new shawl using some cashmere I had in my stash using the eye-of-the-partridge stitch and twisting the slipped stitch. I'm using the common cast on two stitches to start and am making a triangular shawl. Wrong side rows are purl back so I figure this will give my medicine induced foggy brain a challenge, yet easy enough of a pattern that I should be able to knit with said foggy brain. I'm also taking my sock yarn from the petals Spring club. The yarn is the most beautiful Daffodil color of yellow's. I have 400 yards and thought originally I would knit socks but now I'm not so sure. I have enough yarn to knit some type of scarf and I should be able to find a stitch pattern that really shows off this yarn.

Oldest daughter and boyfriend (son to us) came over for celebratory birthday dinner last night and then stayed over. In fact everyone is still asleep. This was a bonus from last night to have kids still here this morning. The only thing that would make this better would be to have middle daughter home to share in the fun. We gave oldest daughter a years pass to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and hope to go along on some of the visits.

Today is the first of a two day prep starting with no eating. Got to go find my knitting needles!!!!!