Smiling IRish Eyes

 Someone at my LYS was knitting the Eyelit Cardi in Red.
She had just begun.  The store had a sample and that's what you see above.  For snicks and because I'm cheap I looked up the yarn to see what this sweater would cost the knitter.  Turns out Silky Wool retails for under ten dollars a skein.  

This means you can knit a fifty dollar sweater if you wear a size small.  I did feel the sample and it was not wooly but it didn't feel terribly soft either.   Now it is knit in the round in one piece with raglan shaping.  I liked it.  Not enough to knit it, but to share anyhow! 

This ragged haired irish girlie is my only decoration for St. Patrick's Day.  My mom and I were laughing when I visited the other night because she and I never liked corned beef and cabbage. 
Yet she made it for my father, using a crock pot recipe. 
While she doesn't know who I am, often, she knows my voice and my cadence and my laughter is familiar to her.  
I brought the staff irish soda bread this week.  Her little Irish eyes were smiling and that's enough for me.