2-26

Well I haven't written in like forever and I don't really have much to say (there was a small tornado last Sunday) I do have some pictures of my dad and Sharon from their trip to Florida and my dad fishing around Illinois too. This post's for you dad!

2-8 Mardi Gras

The first parade is this weekend. I finished my hat just in time. For a solid month we will eat sweet cakes for breakfast and bathe in crème Brule. We will throw beads, coins and cups at each other and laugh, we will not complain that all the roads are blocked from all the parades, fences for crowd control and food stands. The King Krewe will have not one, not two but THREE GRAND BALLS --who's got the biggest buffets of them all??? Excess is law, theme colors are green, yellow, purple, blue, and red in any combination, heavy on the purple, green and yellow. The kids and I are excited to be in the parade. Here is Terry. Can you believe he picked out the yarn and pompoms??? I will put the pattern online later.

Checkerboard hat

Yarn bee Fleece Lite Seaside and Quartz
36 peg kk loom

Wrap yarn around loom twice to make long tail Ewrap all the pegs holding the main yarn and long tail yarn together so that you have 2 loops on all the pegs.
Purl 36 pegs
Tie on white yarn, ewrap every 2 pegs with white then ewrap remain pegs in green and knit off to start pattern, example from starting peg ww gg ww gg ww gg continue around
Repeat wrapping white and green for 4 rows
Then switch wrapping green and white example from starting peg
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ww gg ww gg ww gg etc for 7 sets of rows, adjust rows if necessary

gather method to bind off