Monday, December 26, 2005

Ensuring Good Knitting Karma for 2006

In order to appease the knitting gods I have decided to finish all WIPs by this Saturday night. This shouldn't be too hard -- one more bastard slipper, side seams of the Evil Sweater, a baby bunting and the satchel. The satchel is currently 20 miles away so this does pose a bit of a problem. Slightly inebriated Chris was entrusted with putting stuff in the car after last night's Christmas dinner at his brother's and instead left them sitting in a nice neat pile. Leaving presents and tupperware is one thing, leaving knitting is treason!

It was a nice dinner with a mish mash of the normal American stuff and traditional Lithuanian things. My brother-in-law made some kick-ass mushroom gravy. I could have ate the whole boat full. Yum. After dinner I helped my niece (10 years old) to start knitting. I was very impressed that she kept at it for quite a few hours. I'm going to dig her out some bigger needles (these were 8s) and nicer yarn to encourage her. I found the slow-going nature of 8s to be intimidating at first and enjoyed making those first scarves on huge 17s, I hope she'll feel the same.

Today has been long -- little man is suffering from post-holiday let-down and is driving me nuts. Luckily he is already in his pjs (at his request) which I hope indicates he wants to go to sleep soon.

In Baby Cashew news, there is none. I am freaking huge but otherwise well and happy. I go to my chiro tomorrow just for a hip alignment. On Wednesday we have our home visit for the homebirth just to review the general plan. And that will be it until the munchkin decides to arrive. Chris and I both think it will be sometime the week before my due date (1/13).

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Holiday Knitting

Well, some of it is done. There has been a bunch of rationalization as to what would be finished and what to skip. Oh well.

There are actually 3 pairs that look just like this, and another in a purple:


Ruffles Scarf:


Skull purse (Hello Yarn skull pattern, my bag pattern):


Skull purse with needle felted bow:


KNITTING LIST:

  • Chris's sweater

  • skull with bow tote

  • ipod cozy

  • 5 pairs of adult slippers

  • ruffles scarf from Scarf Style

  • another Miss Dashwood

  • another satchel

  • wee pair of baby slippers



So that's not too bad, the yarn for the satchel should be here soon, I can crank out the ipod cozy in a night and then I just have to sew the sweater. I think I can now allow myself to start something for Baby Cashew!

Saturday, December 10, 2005

A Motivational (to myself) Update

Pictures coming soon. The KnitPicks Wool of the Andes slippers turned out very nice. Not nearly as thick as the others but definitely nicer looking. I just finished another Miss Dashwood for a friend's new baby (the last of the year!) And I have the bottom couple of inches of the skull tote finished. Chris had the good idea that instead of doing the bow in intarsia on top of the head I should cut out a felt bow out of another color and stitch it on. I also got the yarn for the Ruffles scarf -- it is the Andean Silk Twist from KnitPicks -- it is dreamy. I would like to make a Clapotis out of it!

KNITTING LIST:

  • Chris's sweater

  • skull with bow tote

  • ipod cozy

  • 5 3 pairs of adult slippers

  • ruffles scarf from Scarf Style

  • another Miss Dashwood

  • another satchel

  • wee pair of baby slippers

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

I finished the knitting on the Evil Sweater

Er, still have the seaming and neck to do, but the majority of it is done. I want to have a party! I'm hoping to have it together by Thursday.

I just checked my knitting list and I'm supposed to have 5 pairs of slippers finished this week. Hmmm. I am quite sure that is not going to happen. Now I just have to figure out what family members I like best. ;)

KNITTING LIST:

  • Chris's sweater

  • skull with bow tote

  • ipod cozy

  • 5 pairs of adult slippers

  • ruffles scarf from Scarf Style

  • another Miss Dashwood

  • another satchel

  • wee pair of baby slippers

Thursday, December 01, 2005

Finished 2 sleeves, another to go

Why? Because the first one is HUGE! I don't know what I was thinking -- it's obviously really big. Maybe I was just so involved in the intarsia that I didn't let my mind focus on this shortcoming. The first one is about 2 inches bigger at the bottom. Here's a pic, the big one's on the bottom:



Next pic, wee baby slippers. The recipient (or recipient's mama) of the wee fuzzy feet requested a pair for a friend.



Little man and I have had a pretty good day. So far we've made bread (haven't baked it yet,) felted the above slippers, made cookies (too flat) and played around with his playsilks. We had a great time bouncing around to Fat Boy Slim. OK, he was bouncing, I was sitting and laughing. We were each holding an end to a huge playsilk and he was jumping like crazy on his trampoline. Sonic Youth came on next and it killed the mood. :) He has definite music tastes, so far Johnny Cash, Elvis, Fat Boy Slim, bouncy reggae and Moby are well liked. It makes a mama proud. Now I just have to work on getting him to like Tom Waits.

KNITTING LIST:

  • Chris's sweater

  • skull with bow tote

  • ipod cozy

  • 5 pairs of adult slippers

  • ruffles scarf from Scarf Style

  • another Miss Dashwood

  • another satchel

  • wee pair of baby slippers