Not a normal Friday night!

 Usually on Friday after work, I settle in with my full coverage piece and put in somewhere between 250 to 500 stitches.  

Tonight - a measly 120(ish).   

Running up and down into the basement as tornado warnings go off, get cancelled, go on again....  That will interrupt your stitching time, for sure. 

BUT there was about three days worth of knitting on the sock yarn afghan; it was stress knitting LOL.  Good thing it's just a garter stitch scrap afghan where the gauge is all over the place even on a calm day!

Funny story.  When I was in high school, our team made it to the state championship in basketball.   This was HUGE.  I was in the pep club and wanted to go to all the games in the tournament and my mother agreed to drive me and she stayed to watch the games.   

Well, she was knitting a sweater for my little sister (who was around 8 or 9 at the time) and was on 'sleeve island'.  She knit the first sleeve during the play off for third place - not any teams either of us really cared about.   Then cast on the second sleeve during the break between the games.   As the championship game got underway and it was a very close fought contest, the stress level went up and up, the crowd got louder and louder, mom knit faster and faster.

We won!   Mom looked at the second sleeve.  It was SUBSTANTIALLY tighter gauge and therefore much smaller than it should have been.   We often laughed about that sleeve over the years as proof that 'stress knitting' is a thing! 

PS, we did get some pretty good straight line winds, and a tornado touched down about 20 miles due west of here.  And poor Andover, KS got hit AGAIN (they were hit in the April 1991 super cell outbreak).  There was some hail, though ours wasn't very big.   All in all, it's just spring in Kansas.