The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

My cold is much better. The  baby sweater is coming along.  I fear I will not have enough yarn and will have to use a complementary color as the sleeves, collar and button bands. I bought some needles-straight and double pointed-and ordered some yarn to complete the cables sweater. I have almost completed the layette cap. I need to find my darning needle to stitch the seam in the cap.

I am listening to The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
. Henrietta Lacks was a black woman whose cervical cancer cells were used as the HeLa line of cells that scientists all over the world use.  She was not compensated at all. She was not told that she may not be able to have children after radiation for her cancer. She was infertile after the radiation.

Baby Sweater

At last, the cowl is finished. It needs only to be blocked and I am unable to find my blocking pins.  Now, I am working on a baby sweater made out of washable wool a friend of mine gave to me.  It is coming along and a much faster rate than the adult sweaters progress.  I plan to sell it on Etsy,com.

The Cowl

I worked on the cowl a bit tonight. I expect I will finish it soon.  Then I can block it and send it off. A pregnant woman wants me to knit something for her baby due in December.

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.

Pink sock and a cold

I've been home all day today.  I am stuffy with a runny nose while wearing the pink sock I knitted and while I am knitting the second of the pair. I am planning how to photograph the two when the second is finished.

Thank goodness for radio.  WQXR and XM Radio have kept me company all day. I listened to the end of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, some Stravinsky, Beethoven and now some Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. I arranged to hear Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall on Monday. I may have to stay home.

Looking through my notebook of patterns, I found a perfect baby blanket for my doctor who is having a baby. I want to use Baby Ull by Dalegarn.  Some say it is not washable; some say that it is washable. I want to use a soft washable yarn for the 48" square blanket. The cost of the Baby Ull is prohibitive. Maybe an acrylic will work. It may be a good idea to use acrylic since we don't know if the baby will be allergic to wool. I don't like using acrylic.

I asked my LYS to order some sock yarn for me and I haven't heard from them yet.

Knitting for a Baby

My doctor is having a baby.  I asked if I could knit something for her as she watched meknit on the pick sock and she excitedly agreed.  "What can I knit?", I thought.  I thought of a sweater, thinking at the same time of the woman at the time management seminar who liked knitting baby clothes.  She knitted a little jacket. I asked if I could knit a blanket.  The doctor said that I could knit anything I wanted and that s he would be grateful.

The pink socks are coming along.  I am about 4 inches away from putting in the toe. At the library I shared the sock with a lady who sat at the table whre I was sitting. While at the library I missed a call inviting me to the Sleeping Beauty ballet put on by the New York City Ballet. Argh!

I didn't read much of the encylcopedia, though.  The 2008 volume 3 had some pages missing.  The 2009 edition had the pages included.  They were on Jean Cretien, the former prime minister of Canada. I didn't finish reading until I got home and read through a section of the Christmas entry. I am almost finished reading Volume 3.

I found a book at the library entitled The Sweater Workshop by Jacqueline Fee. It is about non-pattern knitting or knitting without a pattern.