Lovie Pink Blanket for a very loved child

I recently heard that my 

longest-time friend's youngest baby

is ill with a cancer,

we are hoping for the 90% success rate and that

the chemo etc will not make her too ill, etc.

*

I am far away, 

in the middle of planning a move to our new home

and less than a week from Holy Week...

So the best and only things I can do are

prayer and knitting a small lovie blanket for this dear young girl. 

It is knitting up quickly.

I am doing it as simple as I know how:

start with three stitches and increase until it is the size desired

and then decrease until it is finished.

The yarn is Lion Brand's Fairy Tale and it the prefect pink... 

Ravelry here.

Still loving this book on St. Porphyrios.

Reading these books is showing me in deep 

and real, practical ways how we must

love and be gentle with everyone...

I am also re-reading 

A Wind in the Door by Madeline L 'Engle.

Perfect low stress reading...

which is needed about now...

we had a mover try to say that we should start packing today!

We hope to move a bit before Memorial Day and 

we are NOT in anyway packing during Holy Week or Pascha! (Easter)!

*

The Holy Week is the best week of the year!!!

*

Well, I am also not going to stop knitting and 

hope to finish this blanket in the next weeks,

it's a great one to knit while in the car with Mr. Husband 

driving us to church...

*

So what are you reading and creating?

Yarn Along with us!

Rainy Friday ~ home, NYC and pondering blankets

I and many others prayed for my
Ottawa deacon's son N. who had surgery this morning
and for my friend's father's surgery.
On days like this I light my biggest prayer candles....

It is raining here,
since late last night.
My heart sunk when I read about
tropical storm Andrea. 

I light many lampadas.
I am supposed to go to NYC this afternoon
for a doctor's appointment.
I could use some prayer about my travel
and for further healing...

Our Basil plant.
Mostly alive and a beautiful green... 

The rose bush is still with us,
I really love this one
that Mr. Husband got me on the day we came home
as newly married.

So I have a good number of the squares for
my blanket.

I am wanting to have more colours in it;
would like some orange and perhaps
greens and burnt red.
Basically more variety that there is so far.
Open to suggestions! 

 

It is for a 5 year old boy I know in NJ
at one of my churches here.
*
I am learning to purl and actually did some
stockinette stitches yesterday!
I need to learn this so I can use the various types of
stitches to make things like
slippers, hats, mittens, maybe even a sweater one day.
*
Okay, well it is raining.
Time for lunch.
Time to get ready to try to go to NYC.
Please pray for me and all of us that
no really bad storms come...