Lenten Knitting and Baby Booties

The baby booties are completed.  Here are the completed booties with crocheted ties.

Below is the watch cap for the Seaman's Institute of New York and New Jersey.  It and a matching scarf are my Lenten projects.

Watch Cap for a mariner

I am not sure if I will have the scarf ready for Easter. It  is 51 inches long. I will try.

Baby Booties for my Doctor's baby

My doctor recently had a baby boy. Here is a bootie still on #7 needles

and another on the #5 needles as per the directions.

I like the bootie made on #5 needles better.

Knitting for Lent

This is my Lenten effort.

Today, I am beginning one of two hats that I will send to the Seaman's Institute of New York and New Jersey for the mariners. I have just completed the ribbing.

Project progress

Bob's colorful yoke sweater is finished.  It is Lent, so I can't say alleluia. Now, I  must pack it up and send it off. 

It is Lent, so I am kntting two hats for the Seaman's Institute of New York and New Jersey.  The Institute's Christmas at Sea program recently sent me two skeins of yarn to knit the hats with. I have the proper sized needles for the projects

My cousin's sweater is coming along.  Two rows a day. The bobbins still get tangly.  I measured my cousin's chest, so that I am assured that the sweater, as knitted as per the pattern, will fit him. No need to make size adjustments.

The brim of the 2008 birthday hat is requiring some size adjustments.  The gauge is slightly, only slightly, off.  If I cast on 122 stitches, the brim is 25 inches and stretches to 31 inches. If I cast on 110 stitches the brim is 22 1/2 inches and stretches to 28 inches.  Now I am trying and casting on 89 stitches to see what the result will be.

I have not yet begun to work on the second of the socks with the heart motif.

Grace

Grace and wisdom/understanding are the  most important words in my life. I seek wisdom/understanding daily and I can only do it through the grace granted me by Jesus Christ. At this  point in  my life I am lucky to be alive and doing as well as I am doing. I believe that I am alive because of grace.  With this gift of life, I prefer to seek wisdom and understanding through my work and efforts.

http://wordsmatter.naiwe.com/

I am still weaving in the ends of my brother's colorful yoke sweater. As I near the end of the project I am awe-inspired.  One, because the sweater is completed...after three years; two, that I persevered to the end and three, that my brother waited sooooo long for it and is still enthusiastic about receiving it.