So, the blizzard is blizzing. It started snowing about 11:15 and has been snowing steadily all day. I’m not sure what the totals are right now–about 6″ I think–but it’s supposed to get more intense–heavier snow, winds up to possibly 50 mph., even a possibility of thunder-snow (a thunderstorm with snow). It didn’t get above 15-degrees today, so the snow is sticking to everything. In the half hour it took me to get home after the snow started, the roads filled up, and after a 15-minute stop at the Rag Shop, my car was completely covered. I’m not looking forward to finding my car under all this snow tomorrow! They’re forecasting about 20″ of snow, and NJ is in an official State of Emergency, at least through the night.

Still . . . it was a great day for knitting. I went to Mara’s coffee shop this morning and hung out there for a while, starting my Pi-are-Square shawl. Here’s a picture–which was challenging to take, since it took two hands to hold the knitting flat enough to see! (I used the timer feature on the camera, and then held it under my chin! I can tell this is NOT going to be an easy project for update-photos.) The collar-edge is the lower-side of the picture. The top of the shawl will be straight garter-stitch, but in the section I’m on, I started doing an all-over lace stitch, just to keep things interesting!

Also, at the coffeeshop this morning, my friend Cindy stopped by and I got to give her her birthday present. She liked the yarn (and immediately asked, “What can I make with it?”) I’m glad to have given it to her–now I don’t have to keep it a secret anymore. She also loved the bag I bought her on Martha’s Vineyard last May. It was going to be her Christmas present, but something else superceded it and it got pushed back to her birthday at the end of this month. It’s a great bag, though–reversable, pink, with white poodles on one side, black tapestry on the other, and with black feathers along the top . . . It’s perfect for her . . . and coordinated so very well with that fuschia yarn!

 My green hood is done blocking. All that’s left is to add a button, or a tie, or something to hold it closed under the chin. It fits really well, and I love the color. It doesn’t crush my curls, either! This is a lousy picture of me, but the hood looks good.

Okay, time to crawl into my toasty warm, down-covered bed, with my very cold book about eskimos . . . really, you know, 15 degrees isn’t that cold at all! (Talk about an appropriate book to be reading during a massive snow storm.)

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