Snowpocalypse and Sweaters

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, but the term "snowpocalypse" has taken on meaning around here. On Friday, Feb. 5, we were all sent home from work at lunchtime. The school that says on its web page " it is the intention of the College to remain open during inclement weather conditions" and "In rare circumstances, the College might be declared closed" closed for an entire week. They are now saying we got 2 blizzards in one week. Local reports say we got 25-30 inches each time, but official reports (and my backyard fence) indicate a total snowfall more like 36-40 inches. Here are a couple of photos Peter took. The first one is looking out our front window at the car in the driveway. Look carefully! After we had shoveled out the car, the snow piled beside the driveway went up to about 6" below the lamp on the lamppost. That's taller than I am.


This one is my mom's car in the driveway in back of the house. It has been snowed in for almost 2 weeks now. The fence behind the car is a four foot chain link fence.


This morning I finished digging a path across the front yard to the oil tank fill pipe so we can get a refill and not run out of heating oil.

On the bright side, an unexpected week off of work left me lots of time for knitting and quilting. I finished the quilt I started for Peter for Christmas, and I finished my EPS sweater. No photos of the quilt, but here's the sweater:


The pattern really worked! I'm so happy! The sleeves are 3/4 length on purpose. The yarn is a cotton-acrylic blend, so I decided to make a spring/fall top instead of a winter sweater. The only change I will make for the next one (oh, yeah, there are going to be more of these), is to make the yoke depth a little less. Since I am short and no longer as petite as I once was, I think EZ's proportions need a little adjusting. But that's an easy change on this pattern. As you can see, this one looks just fine, it just has the really deep armholes typical of sweaters, whereas what I want to make is more of a top.

How exciting to have a big knitting success!