My Kids are nuts...and funny....and wonderful

So, I was bored and looking through some of the things I've plurked about my kids over the past year. I was ROTFLMAO so I decided to share some of those things with you. When these started, the kids were 8, 6, and 3. They're now 9, 8, and 4.


-Andrew just came to me and started a sentence with "when I'm an adult and if you're still alive...." jeez kid....thanks…

- While watching the Simpsons movie with the kids, and Alex asks "what's Otto blowing bubbles into?"...um... I told him it was just a funny shaped glass…I think age 6 is just too young for me to explain a bong…

-I think it's funny that every time the oven timer goes off, Hannah says "Mommy, the oven's calling your name".

-I just asked Andrew where he left something. He said "it's in my room, you know, where the walls are..." OMG kid, that does not help.

-Alex keeps singing "saying be careful means I love you", I replied "nope, it means I don't want to have to take your butt to the hospital". Hey, it got him to stop singing..lol

-I just asked Andrew what planet he was from, because he's acting goofy. His reply: "I haven't figured that out yet, I'll let you know"

-I need to work with Hannah (3 y/o) on her pronunciation of the word 'Bear'. It sounded like she said "I love my big beer. He's good beer. I love beer".

-Alex just told Andrew "Everything you do makes me MAD!" Then Hannah ran back to them and told them "stop fighting and clean your room NOW!!” Well…her being Little Miss Bossy made my life easier….at least in that incident.


-I just told Andrew "well, then quit putting Gorillas in your shirt"...It’s just one of those sentences that one never thinks they’ll need to say.

-Alex just asked me if the Wizard of Oz was a new movie when I was a kid, OMG kid!! I got a piece of paper out and showed him the math. Wizard of Oz was released in 1939, Mommy was born in 1982. *Sigh*

-Hannah is walking around the house repeating "fuzzy wuzzy had no hair" over and over again. I fear for her stuffed bears.

--Word of Caution: When engaging in roughhousing with children, make sure nobody is holding an etch-a-sketch... fucking oww…

--Hannah just climbed in to her father’s lap for a snuggle and said "I love you…Monkey Licker!”

- hehehe…I know I'm raising my kids right because Andrew just said "I wish I had a Tardis" Alex agreed. A few nights ago, the 8 y/o told DH "The Tardis could kick the Millennium Falcon's big old butt!" Geek kids are great.

- A conversation I had with Alex: "Mommy, you should run away." "I would love to, but I can't." "why not?" "Because you kids drove me so insane that I now want to stay"..lmao

- I think there is nothing funnier than watching a 3 y/o running down the hallway trying to run & pick a wedgie at the same time.

- Hannah thinks it's the funniest thing in the world to run up to me, fart, and run away laughing. It doesn't help that as she runs away, I laugh…

- WTF? the 8 y/o just smelled the wall. when he saw me giving him the WTF look, he just said 'What?' like I'm the crazy one. At least he didn’t lick it and say "the schnazberries taste like schnazberries"…though that would be funny..lol

- 3 y/o just brought me one of her purses. I found the contents funny: 1 knit cotton baby sock,1 foam block,1 empty altoid tin & 1 barbie head.

--the 3 y/o came up to me and said "do you want to know a secret?" I said "sure." She climbed up into my lap, got close to my ear and said... "this is the secret" and then she licked my cheek.

- DD just said "I'm a doggy...woof woof...I eat birdies...MEOW..."

- the 3 y/o just said to me "I get cranky when I'm sleepy....and it's ALL YOUR FAULT!! Mommy, can I have some candy?"

--I mentioned to the 9 y/o that I had a slight nose bleed earlier today, and what does he do? He says "HA HA" (in his best Nelson voice)

- the 9 y/o was playing outside and I saw him poking the ground with a big stick. I asked him what he was doing and he replied "hm...good question, Mom" and then he turned back and kept doing it

- if I only had 1/4 of the amount of energy that the 3 y/o has, my house would be spotless in 2 minutes. she's running in circles around the living room, laughing hysterically the whole time, every few minutes she stops and drops her pants, pulls them back up and starts running again.

- my kids were asking me how big my cousin's new baby is, So I pulled out my measuring tape and was showing them. The 3 y/o said " that's as big as my head". So, I wrapped it around her head and she was right!

- I told DD that the apple she's eating looks yummy, and she put in her shirt and scowled at me "It's for me...not YOU!"

- 7 y/o asked for another cookie, I said no. 7 y/o said "you just don't want me to be happy." Kid, nice try on the guilt trip, it didn't work.

- I should know by now to not trust the 3 y/o when she says she has a surprise for me. The last 'surprise' she gave me (just a few minutes ago) was to sit on my lap and fart.

- I was dancing while sweeping and the 3 y/o gives me a 'WTF?' look and said "don't be a dork, Mommy."

--OMG...DH bought a new leaf blower and was telling the boys how it works, and the 7 y/o says "I want to feel the air.BLOW ME, BLOW ME!"

- the 3 y/o just got mad at the 7 y/o and said to him "you're a HUGE piece of cat poop!!!"

- 9y/o was getting a cup of juice,& he finished what was in the bottle. He started yelling "MOOoooOOM! We're out of juice!" Then the 3y/o looked at him and says "chill, big butt, there's more in the cabinet"..

- a conversation just overheard between the 9 y/o & 7 y/o: 9y/o- "If you don't stop that you're going to drive mommy crazy." 7 y/o replied "maybe I *like* driving Mommy crazy"

- DD is pissed at oldest DS because he wont let her put a belt on him and lead him around like a puppy. She just looked at me and said "I'm getting tired of his stuff"...LMAO

- I said 'eat shit and die' to my computer, and the 3 y/o heard that and said "yeah....eat poop....ON A STICK!"

- DD is sitting next to me eating some raisins. I asked her "Good Raisins?" she shook her head no and kept eating. I then asked her "do you like eating raisins?" and she shook her head no. I just asked her "are you eating raisins?" and she said "no...I'm trapping them".

--I was just lightly whacking the 9y/o on the leg with a pillow. 3 y/o sees this and yells "MOMMY! NO! Stop! You might hurt my pillow!"

- out of nowhere, the 7 year old just stopped playing, said "I like farts" and then went back to playing.

- HAHA...DD was repeating every single word I was saying, so I looked at her and said "antidisestablishmentarianism". She tilted her head and she said "you're a booger" and she ran off to play.

- I was joking around with DS & I purposefully said "I didn't do nothing!" DD(4y/o) looked at me and said "anything. you didn't do anything"...

- my overly dramatic 4 year old told me she is going to STARVE to DEATH if she doesn't get a cookie NOW. I laughed & here I still sit. she's standing right beside me whining/fake crying "pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaase? I LOVE you! Mommy....I NEED a cookie..." I’m thinking ‘yeah, well, honey, Mommy needs booze....’

-I love the way my 4 yr old's mind works. she was just looking at a pic of the little mermaid and she asks me "where does Aerial's pee come out? Does she pee inside her tail?"

- my 9 y/o was goofing off, so I looked at him and said "you're weird". He replies "I know. I like it that way"

- I didn't hear the whole conversation, but my 4 yr old just told my 9 yr old "I'm going to go buy a dog and make him pee on you!!!"

- 4 yr old is making a big pile of shoes. I asked her what she's doing, she says "oh, I'm just being weird." and went back to her pile.

Crazy Neighbor story time!

I know this is supposed to be a knitting blog, but I haven't been knitting much lately. I couldn't let this blog just sit here doing nothing, so I decided to share a childhood memory.

I was five when we moved into the house on Amana Ct. We soon learned that our next door neighbor, Jaralyn, was bat-shit crazy. She had a HUGE crush on my Dad. She would make up excuses to talk to him, She flirted with him shamelessly. The whole neighborhood thought it was hilarious. My Mom used to try to rescue my Dad whenever she noticed Jaralyn trying to corner my Dad while he was out doing yard work. Jaralyn would just give my Mom dirty looks and the cold shoulder before muttering obscenities under her breath and slinking back into her house to play with her dogs.

Oh, god! I felt horrible for her dogs. I'm not sure exactly how many she had, but it was at least 4. Jaralyn treated them like babies. Literally. She would constantly have one of them swaddled in her arms, talking to it. I remember seeing her try to feed a few of them from baby bottles. When she put the dogs outside (in her fenced in yard), she would put them in playpens. Not fenced in dog runs, but honest to goodness playpens meant for human infants. She also always had at least one of her dogs on her lap while driving.

All the neighborhood kids were scared of Jaralyn. She would scream at us from her front door whenever we would walk past her house on the sidewalk. She was also one of those people who left her Christmas lights up on her house and outside trees year-round. One Summer, my friends and I made a game of sneaking into her yard and unscrewing and stealing the colored bulbs from her strands of Christmas lights in her trees. I never did get caught.

Okay, so maybe Jaralyn wasn't completely bat-shit crazy, but she definitely wasn't all there. She certainly made our life on Amana Ct. a little bit more interesting, though. I don't know what happened to Jaralyn, but I do wonder about her every now and then. She was still there when we moved away, but she wasn't still on Amana Ct. a few years later when we moved back.

I think I've lost it....

no, not my mind. *That's* been lost for a long while now....lol! This time, what I've lost is my knitting mojo. I have projects that in my mind I want to work on, but I just can't find the passion for it right now. I want to say I miss knitting, but at the moment, I don't. Maybe I just need some new inspiration. Usually, I'd find inspiration while yarn shopping, but I don't even really want to do that right now. My stash is being neglected. Maybe re-organizing it will help? I want to say it's the warmer weather causing this, but that's never been a problem before, yet there *is* a first time for everything, right? Oh well, it's not that big of a deal right now. I have no knitting deadlines and no birthday presents to knit.

If you happen see my knitting mojo wandering around out there somewhere, please send it's lazy ass home. I miss it.

Second Mystery, or, May 1st came Early

So, I guess I'll come right out and say what the second Mystery Project was/is. I was test knitting again!


The pattern I was test knitting this time is Nebula (Rav link). We test knitters were originally given May 1st as it's release date, but we were just told that Nebula was a pattern for the Loopy Ewe Spring Fling! Cookie A mentioned that she'll be getting this pattern available online in May. While I don't have both socks completed as of now, I do have the Right sock finished and I'm a couple inches into the Left sock. This pattern is a lot of fun to knit, but it made me VERY, VERY happy that I know how to cable without a cable needle.

I have another mystery....

...however, this one I'll be able to tell you about on May 1st. If you LOVE knitting socks, I promise, you are going to LOVE this :) What I can go ahead and tell you about? Well, I can tell you about the yarn I choose to use for it. A few months ago, I bought some Dragon Feet yarn from Cables & Lace in the Goth Girl Violet colorway, and OMG I fucking LOVE it. It is *the* perfect shade of purple for me, and the silk content adds that sheen I love and drool worthy softness. Yum yum yum yum yum :)

Mystery Finished!

The Mystery sample knitting project is FINISHED!!!! I still can't tell more about that project, but I had a lot of fun knitting it. I'll be shipping it off to the designer tomorrow (Monday).

Now I get to work on Vivian again. :) Plus, I'm planning on knitting a small case for my laptop. Any ideas or favorite pattern suggestions? Anything goes :D

Mystery Knitting

The mystery project has begun! I CO late Wednesday evening, and have knit until my fingers have begun feeling sore. I'm being careful and taking proper breaks so I continue making good progress on the project, but still giving my fingers the rest they need so they don't get painful. I am really enjoying the pattern. It's a fun knit that looks MUCH more complicated than it really is. The yarn....ooooohhhh....the yarn is very pretty, with beautiful stitch definition, and it feels like velvet sliding through my fingers.....yummmmmmm. I will definitely be buying some for myself soon. 

As for Vivian, I worked hard on it before I started the mystery project. I have the body of the sweater set aside and made it to about the half way point of the first sleeve before I had to put it away to concentrate on the mystery project. I'm looking forward to getting back to Vivian after the mystery project is finished.

Have you ever wanted to write something, but when it comes time to get it on paper (or the screen, in this case), you find that you can't translate it from thoughts into words? I've been experiencing that for a while now, it's quite frustrating. My brain has turned to mush...lol.

As far as knitting goes, I'm going to be starting a mystery project soon. So, while that's going on, there probably wont be many blog updates. As soon as I can get started on that, it will be my only project until it's finished, and I can't really blog about it. I'm going to be monogamous for a few weeks, what a novel notion for me...lol. When I can blog about it, you can bet your ass I will. I'm really excited about this project, and I can't wait until I can start on it.

Since my last blog update, I have finished the knitting for Egeblad. It still needs a good blocking (my favorite part of knitting lace), but it's still pretty. It's the size of a large doily, and I'm going to put it aside until my Mom's birthday and give it to her.

I have also been working on Vivian. I'm about 11 inches into it now and loving every stitch. I love the pattern and I am in love with the yarn I'm using. I'm using Cascade eco + and it's just YUMMY, and it has fantastic stitch definition, too. I am going to try to get as much of Vivian finished as I can before I start my mystery project.

I'm still alive!....lol

Sorry it's been over a month since I've updated my blog. I've been both busy and slacking off.

Since my last update, I finished my Leyburn socks. I love the way they turned out, but they have re-reinforced to me the fact that short row heels just don't fit me right. I've known this little bit of information for a while now, but every now and then I'll make another pair of socks with short row heels hoping that this time it'll be different. Eternal optimist. yeah. that's me.

Details on the socks. The pattern is : Leyburn Socks by MintyFresh. Yarn: I used BMFA STR lightweight in the color Socktopus. I'm pretty sure that color has been discontinued.

I've also cast-on some new projects. I've started Vivian with some mauve Cascade Eco +, and I've been working on Egeblad with some white size 10 crochet thread. I'm only about 5 inches into Vivian, and I am LOVING the cables. The pattern is not only beautiful, but is also very well written. Egeblad is perfect for a quick and easy lace project. I have about 5 rows left to knit, and it's looking great. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with Egeblad when it's finished, but I saw the pattern and just wanted to knit it. I might just put it in a box and wait and give it to my Mom for her birthday in October.

okay. Now back to the slacking off. :p

Staying warm

So far, it's been a rather snow & ice covered winter here in Ohio. The freezing temperatures have made me want to make some useful cold weather knits. So, that means that I have 2 new FO's to show off :) (Those of you who follow me on Plurk have already seen these.)


First up, we have a Birds Nest Smoke Ring. I had a lot of fun knitting this. The pattern is well written , it held my attention well, and was still simple enough to knit while watching movies. I used Knitpicks Essential Sock yarn in the color Lantana.




And here we have my new mittens. I fell in love with the Evangeline fingerless glove pattern, but I wanted mittens, so I added some length to the hand and decreased/BO similar to as I would for the toe of a sock. These worked up extremely quickly, I made this pair in 5 days. I don't know what yarn this is, I found it in my stash bin and it was missing it's label. It's worsted weight, though.

DH has started knitting again. He goes in spurts and only knits every now and then. He can't find the convertible mits he made for himself a few years ago, so He's cast on for another pair :) He keeps asking me to work on them for him because I'm a faster knitter than he is, and I almost feel guilty saying no. But then I remember the differences in our tension (I'm a tight knitter and he's an even tighter knitter) and feel less guilty about it. I also have the feeling of he is capable and can do it his own damn self ...lol.

Zombies are REAL!!!

Even to those of you who read this who are not knitters, this is entertaining shit. I am not very good at putting all this drama into the snarky words it deserves, so I will just link you to someone who does a *MUCH* better job than I could. Read: Snake Oil and Cybercide.

Anyway, since I'm not above naming names, and I think this shitfucker should be named, The Zombie is MommaMonkey/Monkey Toes. She's the designer who brought us several beautiful patterns such as the Belatrix, Fawkes, and Carolina Socks.

First Kisses

Shockingly, there is no knitting content in this post.

Earlier, I came upon a thread in LSG (Ravelry link)about first kisses. I posted about mine and then started thinking that it might make for an interesting blog post.

When I was 5 there was a boy in my kindergarten class named Jake, and I had the biggest crush on him. So, one day I decided I was going to kiss him. The next day, I sat next to him on the bus to school. After a few minutes of sitting there beside him, I just leaned over and quickly gave him a kiss on the lips. He looked shocked and we sat there not talking or looking at each other for the rest of the ride to school.

My first ZOMG-butterflies in the stomach-boyfriend kiss was in 8th grade. His Name was Ryan (Ryan the first, as I had a series of Ryans a few years later on). He was in 7th (but we were the same age), he was dumb but pretty (and the only boy I’ve ever dated who was shorter than me (which is an achievement as I'm only 5'2"). All the rest were at least 6 inches taller). He had dark brown hair and amazing blue eyes. (I was then and still am a complete sucker for pretty blue eyes, every single one of my past boyfriends and my DH have blue eyes.) He and I had been ‘going out’ for about 3 weeks, and one day after school as we were saying goodbye in the hallway, we got all sappy and romantic. We were staring into each others eyes and we kissed (I leaned in first). He’s the only boyfriend I've had that I still remember what his lips tasted like. A few weeks later I decided that even though he was fun to kiss, he was too stupid for me so I dumped him for a moody goth boy in my grade named Graham. Graham and I never ‘dated’ but we fooled around a lot and he introduced me to pot.

The stories about Jake and Ryan were what I posted in LSG. After I posted it though, I started thinking about all the boys I've dated, and about my first kiss with each of them. Out of all the boys, there's only one first kiss I can't remember, and of those that I can remember, there's only one first kiss that I didn't initiate (and I married that guy). So, tell me about your first kisses. I like reading those stories :)

Nope

I didn't finish that last pair of mittens before Christmas. In fact, they're still not done, and it's January 3rd. I think I *might* be burnt out on the mitten knitting for now. So, it looks like I will have to force myself to finish them.



However, Since Christmas I have been knitting. In the short time since Christmas, I've knit a Bubby Bear and a little cardigan for him. I'm not 100% sure of the yarn I used to knit Bubby with. It was a partial ball of yarn laying in my stash without any labels. I think, though, that it might be Knitpicks Swish Superwash worsted in Coast Grey. His Cardigan I knit with leftover sock yarn that I really don't remember what it is.




I also started a new pair of socks. The pattern is Leyburn Socks (Ravelry Link) by MintyFresh. The pattern is really simple and is working up pretty quickly. I CO this morning and already worked through the toe and 2 pattern repeats. The yarn I'm using is BMFA STR lightweight in Socktopus. I really love this yarn. It's soft, has a wonderful twist, the colors are beautiful and it's just yummy.

I doubt I'll make it.....

I have serious doubts that I will get my Christmas knitting finished in time, but that's okay. I'll come close. As of now, all that I have left to finish, is a hat for one of my nieces (which is no problem, I can knit that in a few hours) and a pair of mittens for my best friend. These mittens are just over half way completed, but I'm having problems finding more than a few minutes at a time to sit down and work on them. These mittens are another pair from the book 'Selbuvotter', but I'm taking a glove pattern (Annemor#8) and making it a mitten pattern, and changing the cuff pattern.

Here's some pics of some of the Christmas knitting to do have finished:

This hat is for my niece, Talia. The pattern is Butterfly Hat (Rav link). Since Talia is only a year and a half old, I went down a needle size from the pattern. I'm a tight knitter who usually has to go up a needle size, so I went down 2 needle sizes from what I would need to get gauge.

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This is Foliage from knitty.com. I knit this one for my niece, Justice. I knit the worsted weight version.

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And, I finally sat down and finished my Mom's mittens! I've needed to knit just the thumb on mitten #2 for over a month now. This pattern is NHM#7 from the book 'Selbuvotter'.

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I also have a Halley's Comet Hat finished for my niece, Laney, but I keep forgetting to take pics of it. I used Knitpicks Swish Superwash worsted in the color Bordeaux.

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I'm going to give it a valiant effort, and with any luck I'll get those mittens finished before Christmas.

lots of FO's.....

I may not have been blogging much lately, But I sure have been getting a lot of knitting (and some crocheting) finished.

First, we have some crocheted snowflakes. The pattern for all three is HERE. They were quick and easy, I did 4 snowflakes (3 above and 1 below) in one day. I used basic white size 10 crochet thread and a 1.80 mm crochet hook for all 4.

This Snowflake pattern is called Aunt Lore's Snowflake. I blocked mine out a little differently than the one on the website was.

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These Elegant Crocheted Ornaments (free pattern but you have to register to download) were a little trickier than the snowflakes, but were still pretty fun and quick to work up. The pattern is for a set of 6, and I only have the 3 in the pic done. I'm not sure If I'll be doing more or not. We'll just have to see where to mood takes me. I used basic size 10 crochet thread, and on the gold and red balls I used a 3.5 mm hook and on the silver I used a 1.80 mm hook. I did that just to see the difference in the fit on the ball. I think you can see in the pic that the silver one in A LOT tighter, but I like the look of the other 2 better.

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This bag is Via Diagonale from knitty.com. I wanted a new purse, so I knit this one up in under a week. It does have a sewn in fabric lining, but I didn't get a pic of that. This was a pretty easy knit, and I enjoyed knitting it. It was also my first time lining a knit purse. The yarns I used were Wool-Ease worsted in Black, and Valley Yarns Northampton in Amethyst. I also decided against sewing on the handles and I attached them with D-rings. I'm debating about going back and adding on the i-cord top border.

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My Oldest sister asked for a hat for her Christmas gift, she wanted something thick and ribbed, so I double stranded some worsted (wool-ease in dark rose heather and black) and did a 2x2 rib. In the pic the hat is being modeled by my 3 year old.

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Here we have Thuja Socks from knitty.com. I knit these for a friend of mine, and he has big feet. Well, when knitting socks, anyone whose feet are bigger than mine has big feet. I used (again) Wool Ease in Black.

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And, finally, here we have the last project in this post. These mittens I knit for my other sister's Christmas gift. The pattern is NHM #1 from the book 'Selbuvotter' by Terri Shea. I used knitpicks Palette yarn in Blush and Ash. My row gauge was off, and I needed to add a few rows of length, so I added in the 3 dot things at the tips of the mittens. These still need a good blocking, but I'm calling them finished :)

A Pinwheel for Hannah

I knit a Pinwheel Sweater for my 3 year old, Hannah. I love this pattern, it's quick and easy. Well, everything on it is quick except for the loopy edging. This is the second pinwheel sweater I've knit (you can see the first HERE), and I don't usually knit a pattern more than once, so that has to tell you something about how much I enjoy knitting this one.

For this sweater, I let DD into my stash and she picked out her favorite colors. Pink and Pink....LOL. It's actually Rose Heather and Dark Rose Heather colors of Lion Brand Wool-Ease. I chose to do the 2-color loopy edge shown on the adult version of this sweater instead of the single color loopy edge shown on the baby/child version. I think it turned out great :)

When I first finished this sweater and showed it to DD, she told me that she didn't like it and that she never wanted to wear it. But, she's 3 years old and I think we all know how fickle they can be. This Morning I showed it to her again and she told me she liked it, but she still didn't want to wear it. Just before I started writing this blog post, she brought it to me and asked me to help her put it on. So, it all worked out well.

Now, I'm going to concentrate on finishing the socks for my friend, and then I can focus more on doing some Christmas knitting.

insert clever title here

I'm sorry it's been almost 3 weeks since my last update. Let's see, what's happened since my last update?

Well, on the 10th, my Cousin had her baby! It's a Girl! Baby Grace Ann was born on 10/10/08 at 12:53pm. Click here to see her online birth announcement. My cousin loved all of the little baby things I knit, and I can't wait to see baby Grace wearing them :)

I haven't done much in the way of knitting lately. I've been pretty unmotivated. I've worked a bit on sock #2 in the pair I'm knitting for my friend. That sock has suffered a little set back though. Last night as I was getting ready for bed, I found that sock WIP laying on my bed, needles missing and it had SEVERAL dropped stitches. Before this incident I was almost done with the gusset, now I need to frog it back to the heel flap and re-knit. I don't have a dog or cat to blame this on, so it had to be one of the kids. When the boys get home from school, they're all going to get a talking to about owning up to their actions. They should know by now that if they would have told me about it when it happened that it wouldn't be as big of a deal.

I've also been doing a row here and there on the mittens I'm knitting. for the pair I'm knitting for my mom, I'm about 3/4 of the way through mitten #2, and for the pair I'm knitting for my sister, I'm about 1/3 through mitten #2. If I were more motivated It wouldn't take long to finish both pairs, only a couple of evenings if the movie I put in isn't too interesting...lol.

It feels as though we only had about a week of Autumn weather. The past several days the temps have been dipping into the 20's at night and hovering in the 40's at mid-day. Oh well, this means that it's time to use the wonderful handknit socks I've made. The other day I wore a pair of commercially made socks and my feet were freezing all day. UGH! I'm sticking to my handknit ones from now on.

Once I get a bit more progress made on some of my projects, I'll update with some pictures. Until then, Stay warm!

Sick Knitting

For the past week, I've been suffering from a cold. Which is both good and bad. Bad in that I feel like crap and have no energy, and good in that since I had no energy to do housework, a good amount of knitting has gotten done. So, here's what I've been working on:

First, here we have a baby hat. My Cousin, Shelly, is pregnant with her second child, and is due to pop and second now. I had cast on-itis so I figured something cute and quick was just what was needed. The yarn is Vanna's Choice from Lion Brand in the color Dusty Green. The pattern is Cabled Baby Hats by Julie Hentz. The only thing I changed, was instead of having all of the cables twist the same direction, I alternated right twist and left twist cables.

On Saturday, October 4th (the day before I got sick) I went along with my Mom (btw-it was her 50th birthday! Happy birthday MOM!), my Aunt, and one of my sisters, went to Prairie Peddler Arts & Crafts Festival. I had a lot of fun, and ended up buying some fresh honey, some homemade soap, and the wool fiber pictured above. I've started spinning some already, but I'm still a beginner spinner and it shows. That doesn't stop me from having fun with it, though:)

Here we have Mom's Mittens that I'm knitting for her Christmas Gift. I think I've only done 3 or 4 rows since I lat posted about these, but progress is progress no matter how small. I love knitting these, but I can't be trying to watch anything interesting while working on them. The yarn is Knitpicks Essential in Grass and Black, and the pattern is NHM#7 from the book Selbuvotter.

More mittens! This is mitten #1 in the pair I'm knitting for my sister, Dawn. Another from the book Selbuvotter, this is pattern NHM#1. I am using Knitpicks Palette yarn in Blush and Ash.

And, Lastly, here we have sock#1 in the pair I'm knitting for Bleahy. Sock #2 has been started, but I'm still on the cuff.

Achieving Serenity

There were a few times while knitting this baby blanket that I completely lost all passion for knitting it, but I still loved the pattern so I kept on (in the long run, I did enjoy knitting this). I definitely feel a sense of accomplishment for finally finishing the Serenity Baby Blanket. I started this blanket back in July, and just finished it today, September 30th.
I LOVE the finished product, but I doubt that I'll knit this pattern again. I think I'm done knitting baby blankets for a LOOOOOONG time. Now that this is finished, maybe I wont feel guilty for working on Christmas gifts instead of baby gifts.

The intended recipient for Serenity is due to arrive in mid-October (and we don't know the gender), but the last time I saw the expecting mom she looked more than ready to pop (and completely adorable, picture a model skinny person with a beach ball shoved in her shirt). Adorable.

btw- I fully intend to post pics of the baby wrapped in Serenity after he or she is born :)

Troll Socks are finished!

I've been working on these socks sporadically since May, and I finally finished them last night.
The pattern is Diagonal Cross Rib Socks from the book 'Favorite Socks'. The pattern was easy enough for me to keep my mind on TV or conversations, but still there was enough to concentrate on so I didn't loose interest in knitting. The yarn is Regia Strato (now discontinued) in color 5740 - Troll.
These socks don't really photograph well, it's really hard to get a good picture that shows both the pattern and the yarn colors, but I think these do a decent job of capturing both. All I ask is that you ignore my pajama pants in the pics...LOL