Lemon's, Breasts & Funky Yarn

We got some Meyer's Lemons from Rosie. I have never actually seen them before but I had heard about them so she gave me 6 to bring home.

A little history of the Meyers lemon:
Grown in China for centuries. Believed to be a cross between a mandarin orange, a lemon, and maybe a lime. The U.S. Government's botanical explorer Frank N. Meyer brought plants from Bejing in 1908 to California. In the 1940s, a virus threatened the entire California citrus population. The Meyers lemon was a survivor but also the main carrier of the virus. Most of the Meyers lemon trees were destroyed. UC Riverside scientists eventually developed a resistant tree and again the Meyers lemon rules!

They really are an orange color on the outside...not quite the color of an orange but not really lemon colored either.

The inside.

The Lemon Curd made to go over.....

This cranberry lemon pound cake!

I also knit a Tit Bit for one of the prayer shawl ladies that just had a mastectomy. She was wearing a pale pink one I made as a prototype (it is a bit small) and said she really liked it as an alternative to the heavy silicone prosthesis. I am going to take this one over to her house this week and we are going to stuff to order and then make a pink one and a white one for her to wear this summer.

I also took Hannah to Joann's yesterday because I wanted to pick up some big diameter straight needles. There are times that straight needles are useful and I knew I would never find them at the thrift store!

I picked up this package of Susan Bates straights for a steal because of the candy cane color.

I am using them to make this final scarf for the Red Scarf Project. I had one ball of each color on as you can see at the top but neither is enough for anything so....put them together and it seems like they are just one yarn. I knit 2 rows with each color and it blends them nicely.

This is Trendsetter Aquarias I picked up at Tuesday Morning before Christmas.

And an Obie shot in his glory on the couch! His tummy fur is finally growing in after we had it shaved off because his hair was so matted when we got him from the Humane Society.