Bunny Cake, Sweaters, and National Library Week

Good morning! (Don't worry, I'm not usually this perky in the morning.) I hope you all had a lovely weekend -- a lovely Easter/Passover/Peep holiday. My weekend was rather chill. I went to an Orphan Easter party at my friends' place complete with ham, and cheesy potatoes, and deviled eggs, and cupcakes and every good alcoholic thing. I made a bunny cake for the event. I don't think Duff from "Ace of Cakes" will hire me anytime soon, but it was funfetti, delicious, and well liked by all. Our Orphan Easter party was originally going to feature that epic of tales, The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston. Instead we watched Ghost Busters and Tales from the Crypt, which I honestly don't remember being so sexual. But then again, I was between 3 and 10 years old when it aired. I didn't get home until 3ish (I know, I'm such a party animal).

The next day I managed to wake up after 8 hours of sleep which is partially a miracle because I usually get grumpy with only 9 hours of sleep. It was a gorgeous day with the sun shining and birds chirping that I started to feel guilty about staying inside. Judy and I went for a lovely 3-mile walk along the Milwaukee River. Brisk and refreshing! When we returned home I picked up my knitting, of course. I finished the strange rib pattern for the cowl and just completed the first row of the yarn over pattern when I noticed I didn't end on the right number of stitches. So in a bit here, I'm going to rip it and see where I went amiss. Here's a fun fact for you knitters that I didn't know until I worked on this sweater: yfwd (yarn forward) is the same as yo (yarn over). Yarn forward is the British term for a yarn over. It drove me nuts when I first started this pattern because I didn't know what a yfwd was. I thought it was when you bring the yarn to the front, but you usually only do that to purl or slip a stitch. Thanks to the magic of Google (yes, librarians use Google) I found a page that explained this English to English translation conundrum. I'm hoping to finish knitting the cowl tonight so I can assemble it tomorrow. I want it completed so I can send it off to Memo while there are still some chilly days before summer.

Oh, I also remembered another WIP I forgot to mention. BFFFL blanket! Jen is my BFFFL (Best, Friends, Forever, For Life) and we thought it would be an awesome idea to create a blanket knit by the both of us. So we're both knitting squares: different patterns, different colors for each two squares. For example, I knit 2 6x6 squares with cables using a lovely blue worsted weight yarn. I kept one square and I sent the other to Jen. She'll (one of these days) knit some squares and keep one and send the other to me. By the time we're done, we'll be 64 and have enough squares to create a patchwork blanket knit by both of us. It's kind of cutesy but a good remnant buster. I've only made two squares. I blame work and school for not giving me enough time to devote to my knitting excursions.

But I'm off today, I just have to head to campus for an hour or so to help out at a table display to show off National Library Week! That's right! It's an entire week to celebrate the wonderful things your library does for the community and the world! Check out the American Library Association (ALA) site celebrating libraries: http://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/natlibraryweek After tabling, I hope to get home and work on that cowl and if I have enough time, I want to CO (cast on) a pair of socks. We'll see how it goes. To all of you I wish you a Happy Library Week filled with book scent and shhhing!