Kids! Knitting! Snow!

I am here!  My house has been filled with young people the last few days and writing just couldn't be done in any meaningful way so I gave myself a fall break.  It was lovely.  We baked cookies, we had movie nights, we played board games, we tried to sleep at night.  Okay, I slept at night.  They goofed off, quietly, so that I thought they were sleeping.  And now they have all gone home and it is snowing gently outside my window and I am missing them but I feel so very lucky.  They are, each and every one of them, all seven of them, such wonderful big and little people.  I often wonder how I got so lucky.  

I did get in some knitting too.  

The fronts are joined and I think there are 4 rows to knit before I can join to knit in the round.  

This is one of the places I changed the pattern.  The original is a cardigan, but I always wear things closed so I am making this a pullover.  Ì did think about making the cardigan and just closing it when I put the buttons on but I really like the simplicity of working in the round.  

I am doing a bit of a detail center front.  I am repeating the twisted rib

  

in  three columns right where the button bands would normally overlap.  I like the way that little detail looks in the middle of the reverse stockinette.  

There will be knitting today, and coffee and I am sure to spend a lot of time watching big flakes gently cover the world outside my window with a peaceful winter blanket.