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Howdy!!!! 


It's been a while again since I last wrote and for not doing much, a lot has occurred.

Last month my daughter went and had a surgery which cancer was detected, ovarian  cancer.  Not was I had (endometrial) but then I was told the type of cancer I had was not genetic. Fortunately the type she had does not spread and they had taken her ovaries and the cancer with it. What a great relief, I did not want her to have to through what I had.

So pretty much of January and first couple of weeks of February I was focusing on my daughter and some self care for myself.

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Today

I started this post above the end of February, the 26th actually and now being March 13, it’s only obvious that I never did finish it or post.

In the last three weeks since then I’ve had a birthday, I’m happy to have birthdays even though it means I’m a year younger. I had a few appointments and some family come visit, so these past three weeks just went by so very quickly. I've enjoyed every minute of it though.

I wanted to take a few minutes and tell you about the little something I’ve been working on this past week. There is a knit along by Imagined Landscape who Sarah Schira is the creator of the patterns of knitted gnomes. They are the cutest little gnomes and this year she is having a knit along. Each month you knit at least one gnome and can post it on your Ravelry or on Instagram. She has a giveaway along also.

I couldn’t resist myself, especially seeing how I had purchased patterns a while back and haven’t yet made them. So I wanted to share my gnomes that I had made for January, February and March.


JANUARY 



FEBRUARY 


And March is almost ready for 

St Patrick Day




He is getting very close to being finished

  

I have the arms finished and one leg


After that his beard, nose and then attaching all his parts. I’ll be posting him here and on instagram when he is finished.

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Till next time

Kat



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  1. So sorry to hear about your daughters diagnosis, glad all is well with her now. Love the gnomes.

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  2. That's not good for you daughter but so pleased it went really well......

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