WeeBugKnits

It's been a while since I have had the opportunity to post twice in a week. And I am suposed to be getting server space sometime soon, so it will be very nice to be able to actually post some pictures. Today in my younger daughter's 6th birthday. Kind of bittersweet actually, now that those baby years are but a memory. I miss having babies around, especially since it seems like a lot of people that I know are having babies, including my brother and his wife. So at least I will have plenty around to get a baby fix! I supose I should be greatful that I don't have to have sleepless nights because of feeding or diaper changes. But the reality is that Shannon is just now starting to sleep through the night, so I usually don't get a break from that either.

Knitting news. I finished the sweater for hilltop last night, I redid the collar and fixed a couple of other things on it and I feel much better about the final result. I am still plowing through the yarn company sweater, haven't figured out the sleeves as the directions on the pattern were wrong, wrong, WRONG! Did I say they were Wrong? I could just make it a sleeveless shell, but I personally think because of the striping it would look better with sleeves. Fortunately, sleeves are fairly easy to do. Guess what I will be doing this weekend?

There is a lace maker's meeting tomorrow in Kent. I really want to go. But tomorrow is Fiona's last soccer game and I really should go there instead. We will see. Maybe it will be raining and I won't have to go. Yeah right, they play soccer year round here. Even in the middle of winter when it is really cold and yucky.

I am knitting a hat for the homeless, a project that my friend Robbie and I embark on every fall. Currently I am making a hat from leftover sock yarn, one skein of Baby Uhl and left over Lorna's Laces yarn mixed together. It is turning out very pretty. I will probably have to hide it, the girls love to play with the darn thing.

Have a great weekend! I am going to enjoy the weather while it holds.

This isn't going quite the way I intended. But I am still around, just overwhelmed with things that are going on. I did get the Moonlight sweater done for the yarn shop, literally moment's before it was to be modelled. It went out with one sleeve basted in and a rather poor job of putting the buttons on. Fortunately for me, there was two shows with enough time to put the sleeve in properly and add the buttons. I somehow became one button short, so I skipped the top button that I wasn't going to button anyway. I think despite my best efforts to totally screw it up, the sweater turned out lovely. Wasn't at all helped by losing one of the fronts last monday. I am glad to know that I can whip out a simple sweater in a week, but really don't want to experience anything like that again anytime soon.

The fashion show at the yarn shop was fun, the shop was crowded and there was a good supply of beer and rootbear. Would have been nice to have something snacky though, I didn't try the beer because I hadn't had anything to eat since lunch. The rootbeer was good though, nicely served by a very nice young man in a kilt. I love a guy in a kilt, but I can't get my DH convinced that he should wear one. Oh, and there was a bagpiper too!

Tonight I want to finish up the cotton sweater for the yarn company, get pictures of that one and then fix the collar on Moonlight so that I can get the darn thing blocked. Friday night it was steamed and that got rid of most of the curl, but I will feel better getting it over to Hilltop in a finished condition.

I will probably be laying low on the knitting this week. Simple and mindless sounds like the most likely possiblity. One, I am tired from all the knitting I churned out last week. Secondly I think I cracked at least one rib on Saturday after making a less than gracefull exit off the top of the girl's bunk bed. Agh! I won't go into the details, suffice it to say it has been a rather painful experience.

Ack! Where did September run off to? Is it really October already? Must be because the leaves on the trees are all changing colors, and drifting down into leaf drifts. I love this time of year. I don't know if ti is because the splendor of color from the leaves enchants me or if it is just because it is cooler so I can wear more sweaters. Probably a bit of both.

Me thinks I may have overcommitted myself. And why is it when I am knitting something that has a deadline, it always seems to require ripping out and re doing. The sweater I am working on for Cascade yarns is that way, and I think that I am about to rip it out again. It would be easier if one of the colors blended a bit better, but I may just have to leave it in the color sequence that I have now. Sigh.

I came home from my knitting group with a garbage bag of yarns that I have yet to bring in the house. Not that DH ever complains about the yarn stashed in odd places, but since we are really trying to declutter, I supose it is a bit counter productive to bring some more into the house. I need a space of my own for my hobby, kind of difficult to find in a two bedroom, one bathroom 1909 bungalow type house. Oh well.

I am about to just the computer down here at work. Going home and sitting in the couch knitting sounds wonderful. But I need to stop at Fred Meyers for a couple more storage bins first.