during 13 hours

So very happy to be back home though freezing cold it may be.  Actually, Florida was not as warm as I had hoped and so it was not so hard to leave and return to Kentuckiana.  Today and tomorrow our low will be around negative 15 degrees (can I say oh my goodness!!!) so I have zero plans to be out of doors.

I make things, a lot of things.  I always have.  The one person I never make anything for is Poppa.  You know that saying about the squeeky wheel getting the grease, well, I guess he never squeeks.

He hurt my feelings a bit a few weeks ago when he told me that I have never make him anything.  It hurt not because of what he said but because it made me realize that I don’t do for him enough.  Do for him as in not cooking or cleaning or anything he needs me to do.  Just do something for him just because.  So, I looked through my stash since he really could use a hat for this winter.  He really likes everything that touches his skin to be super soft (perhaps someday I will tell you about the first time he came to my house to visit and brought his own soft toilet paper, yes true story) but I had nothing soft enough in a color that he would actually use.  Then I remembered that bag of cashmere yarn that someone donated to the thrift store solely because it looked like a rats nest of a mess.  I guess someone’s Grandmother must have pulled the skein apart and did not wind it up because let me tell you, it is something of a labyrinth.  It is the perfect shade of heather grey.  I grabbed the whole bag and started to untangle it and quickly realized that this job would take a whole day or more.  It would be the perfect project for a 13 hour road trip home.

So the day after Christmas on our trip home, I started untangling and about 9 hours into the job I had enough yarn to possibly make this hat and it would be soft like buttah.  I thought I might work on it while home in Florida but of course there was a grandbaby to love and a last minute surprise visit from my parents, brother and niece and nephew (joy I tell ya) and time to talk, hug and laugh with my first born.

On the 13 hour trip back, I cast on for a simple hat for my hubby who likes simple (as in as simple as possible) things.  I now have the hat a few inches away from starting the decrease for the crown and guess what, I am running out of yarn so it is time to go back to what is left of the tangled yarn and get, I hope enough yarn to finish his hat.  He of course is excited about his new hat and I promise to make him many more things as I have years to make up for.

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