Yarn Yearning

This image obtained from Pinterest and is being used to explain my brief quilt hiatus

Yep, the Squirrel has gotten me obsessed with yarn which I've became reacquainted with while recuperating from my fractured left knee cap.  I haven't posted since January 11th for several reasons, I've been knitting and looming and then there was a vacation to Texas this past week. I didn't want to draw attention to this since I didn't want to jinx it and there was to be no referring to it as a "trip" since that's what I did on our last vacation.  Physical Therapy is almost over and I would say I'm 90-95% back to normal. Hopefully this post will explain my busy-ness and absence from my usual blogland activities.  I really wish someone would invent a foot pedal mouse so I could scroll down reading posts while using my hands for sewing and now for knitting/looming.

It first started innocently with knitting dishcloths and then once I was out of my knee brace I still wanted to knit some more especially after seeing two bloggers who also quilt and knit (Helen, whom I admired the sweaters and socks she knits and Mary, who knitted hats which reminded me of the hats my late mother knitted for my boys when they were little). After I knitted the first hat for my Hubby and bought all of these circular needles in different sizes and lengths, I discovered knitting looms which I think have been around for ten years and I had never heard of them until I saw them on Pinterest.  So after hats were knitted or loomed, I discovered cowls which again have been both knitted and loomed.  BTW, cowls made on a loom make a very nice and fast gift which I've given to my Physical Therapist and his Assistant, which is way nicer than my hands around their necks which I thought of giving them when I first started therapy,  and also to my Hair Stylist as an apology for not remembering my appointments.  I even made cowls for two of my dogs which I call Howl Cowls and if I ever make one for someone at my church, I'm going to call them Holy Cowls.

Now I've knitted two shoulder shrugs and in the process of looming a triangle shawl and knitting a poncho which I did while on vacation.  I never knew you could knit a long rectangle to make a poncho.  Over the past four months, I've learned so much about knitting and looming, thanks to Pinterest and youTube and, yes, I do have a yarn stash now along with many knittings needles and looms.  Like my quilting, I have a similar style, I like my stitches easy and my pieces square or rectangular.  I don't think I will challenge myself with knitting a sweater which fortunately I do not like wearing.

I'm ready to hop back on the quilt wagon now and can set aside my "Yarn Yearning" as my Hubby calls it and finish these four projects I finally got going, after taking a yarn break, right before we left on vacation .  I should have a finally finish soon so I can have something to post. Sometimes, you just need to take a break from quilting, but not too often, just like blogging, right?

Lastly, here is my Happy Flower appliqué project which I've cut the background squares before leaving for vacation with the intention of working on them while in Texas; didn't happen at all.  This project was inspired by Rene' Creates and I just read her recent Instagram post that she started a knitting project now.  There must be a Knit Bug or Yarn Yearning going around.

Hope you are having a great Super Bowl Sunday and if you're like me, it's a great day for quilting and taking a yarn break.