Whew, what a week.

My husband had surgery last Thursday, it was a pretty big operation and he was expected to be released on Sunday. Didn't happen. Monday? Didn't happen. Tuesday? Didn't happen. Wednesday? Didn't happen. Finally we got home around 4:30 on Thursday. He was in Johns Hopkins up in Baltimore, we live in Northern Virginia. So I was spending 2 hours a day (at least) in my car, 8 hours a day watching a very drugged man snore, and trying to work. And, to make it better, I was very sick on Friday night. Very. Then after getting home last night I still had to go to the grocery store and the pharmacy and then fix us some dinner. He's still feeling a bit sore and slow but is improving and the biopsy reports were positive. My dog was glad to get sprung from the vet's.

ETA: As a response to a couple of comments, I meant "positive" in a positive way, meaning the biopsy was was negative and that's at good thing. Thank you all for your POSITIVE comments.

It wasn't a total loss, though. I learned to knit socks. I'd wanted to run down to Fibre Space last week for some yarn for a new project but didn't have a chance. But I did have some sock yarn in my meager stash and some size 3 dpn's. And a lot of time on my hands. I spent the time he was in surgery casting on and making the shortened cuff. I was too impatient to start the sock process to make a full 6" cuff. I used a combination of patterns/directions found on Ravelry. Following the link will take you to my project page. I used the Silver Sock tutorial to assist me on the gusset construction. While there are problems, including the cuff being too large, it IS a sock. It took me 2 days. On my way up to the hospital on Monday I went to JoAnn's for smaller needles - the pattern suggests 1.5's. They had 1's and 2's. I bought both and used the 1's. And bought more yarn. um, yeah. Using smaller needles and making a full 6" cuff is slow going for me. After 5 days, I only just started on the heel. I must learn to knit faster.


I worked from home today, I didn't think hubby was ready to spend the day alone. And then did a few clean up items in my sewing room, including cleaning it up. I hemmed the BWOF green skirt, and did a couple of repairs and finished a pair of panties. It looks better in there. And in my closet.


Tomorrow I'm off to do some house-hunting.


BUT, IT'S SPRING!! OFFICIALLY! I saw forsythia and a cherry tree blooming today and all the snow is gone from Old Town. So now I need to do some spring sewing. I do love me a nice warm day! It was rainy, but that's very spring-like so it was fine.


And since I don't think that it's fair that you had to read this whole, whiny post with no pictures.