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.

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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)!

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

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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...

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So what are you reading and creating?

Yarn Along with us!

Yarn Along ~ Hats and Baby Blankets

I was going through my yarn basket and 

found this hat that I have yet to finish...

I need to ask about the decreasing of it so that 

I can get it off the needles...

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I ordered this yarn to do a fast baby blanket

for a friend's young girl who is ill...

It's hard to be so far from so many I have known and loved

over my life and then to hear of a friend's ill child (cancer),

well, all I can do is knit and pray;

and so I will endeavour to do... 

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Still accruing more squares on my

baby square blanket...

Trying to decide what colour yarn to 

sew it all together in; the blue or the yellow;

the yellow is a bit of a thicker yarn than the blue;

not sure what is better ~ to sew with the softer/weaker blue yarn

or the denser yellow.

Thoughts, suggestions? 

Meanwhile, Cleo the ever present Cat whose

antics always make Mr. Husband and I laugh...

She had messed up our rug with her running and darting...

she is constantly trying to get in the way

when we are doing our Lenten prayer of St. Ephraim with prostrations;

I've heard that similar cats of our persuasion have demonstrated

similar impiety...

so funny...

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Reading... I just finished this lovely book...

Elder Porphyrios Testimonies and Experiences 

What can I say?

the newly Sainted Elder Porphyrios is so gentle, loving while

being faithful to Christ.

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I am pondering many of his words and am growing,

through his influence via these books,

in my awareness of God's gentleness, love and mercy.

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I've also been on a Madeleine L' Engle re-read kick.

This week it is the very full of family drama novel

a live coal in the sea

It's not the easiest reading per say, as it deals with

a great deal of human brokenness, betrayal and loss....

But our world is full of such horrors and I think

L' Engle often grapples with them in ways that are life-giving...

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I am pondering L' Engle a lot these days and hope to write 

more on her in the future;

for now, I am aware of how much her novels are about

moving towards light, healing and seeking to wake up 

on the inward spiritual level.

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So, what are you reading and creating?

Do Yarn Along with us!