Knit4Charities

Well I have been on holidays!!  Not that I am making excuses  but I must admit I am not the worlds best blogger --- more likely the worlds worst!

Holidays were wonderful, we had the best of weeks with our grandchildren at the Gold Coast.  Beautiful warm sunny days, then the day we left the unit it started to rain and got very cold.  Someone up there was watching over us for that week!!

Then just a few days after we gave the kids back to their parents we got news to say one of our dearest friends had lost his battle with cancer.  We still had another 3 weeks of holiday planned but it wasn't a very hard decision to cancel them and head down to Victoria for the funeral. 

All things happen for a reason they say!  Well in our case this is very true.  My hubby has had 2 total knee replacements and while we were away he started getting a lot of pain in the one most recently done.  By the time we finally arrived home (about 10 days before originally planned) he was on crutches.  In the past couple of days he has managed to get an appointment with the Orthopaedic Surgeon and have an ultrasound done on his knee.  If we hadnt come home when we did I think we would still be waiting for appointments and my dear hubby would be in terrible pain.  Now we just have to hope the luck holds out and he gets an early appointment for an operation to clean things up in his knee.

This week I issued a challenge to the knit4charities group members to knit or crochet a mans beanie by the end of August.  Our Charity of the Month in August is really a variety of different organisations because August is our Remembrance Month so we are knitting in memory of a lost loved one.  I am knitting beanies in memory of my nephew who died in a drowning accident in May -- I hope to personally make 34 one for each year of his life. 

In between beanies, I have been knitting bootee and mitten sets, chemo turbans and a few rows of dh's vest! 

I must admit I had 3 weeks break from knitting - had no inclination at all to pick up needles or a hook for that matter - but now I am back into it again with a vengeance!

One thing for sure --- it is great knitting weather --- miserably cold here today!!!  

Happy knitting