Why finish things when you can start new things?
The pop blanket is so much fun!! I only have the cuff of the last sleeve of the green sweater but I have been knitting nothing but circles inside squares.
I wanted to make a bigger one than the baby blanket size but I decided to make it for Brynn for her birthday so I will make the baby size and add squares as she gets bigger. Well it is a plan (I don’t usually stick to my knitting plans)
I do love those little squares!
To leave it and call it finished or rekniit the border.
When you notice that you could have done something differently that perhaps would look nicer what do you do? Do you say oh well I finished that part or do you take it out and try again? I have already reknit the cable and ripped back this simple baby sweater so many times I just want to be finished but now I want to reknit the cable border on the bottom too. So close yet so far.
I am not a perfectionist by any means. I don’t tend to worry about the things I don’t think will get noticed by the “untrained” eye. But some things are small changes that make a big difference in how things look when they are finished.
Haha who am I kidding I knew before I wrote this I was going to rip again. I’m already happier with how the border is laying. Not as bunched up as before
Ah much better!
I have been very motivated to knit the last few days. Went into the stash closet that was falling down around me and reorganized it all. Fell back in love with some pretty yarn. Wondered why I had kept other yarn around so long. Noticed how much my taste has changed over the years of knitting.
It all got me thinking about all my projects that are on the go (and a few to start). The thought that came to me then was. I go back to work in less than two weeks (yikes). To take some of that stress off I should knit like a mad woman and see how many projects I can finish before I go back. And all of this while looking after my baby who will be one in a week and a half (OMG), getting ready to go back to work, planning LO’s birthday party, and not letting my husband starve or letting the house fall down around me.
Perhaps I should have extended that until I go back in September after the summer break.
But the point is to see what is possible for myself to do. So I will give it a shot. Some are so close to being finished and some my be frogged. The quest begins.
List:
D baby sweater 80%
Duet socks 75%
Watermelon socks 75%
Reptilian lace socks 50%
Crooked cable socks 50%
Green autumn mittens 55%
Brooks lace shawl 25%
Lizard ridge 55%
Log Cabin baby blanket 50%
Feb lady sweater 75%
Mitered square blanket 70%
Deathflake socks 50%
Brynn’s first fair isle 60%
Hospital socks for Pam 0%
Pop blanket 0%
I don’t have expectations that they will all get finished (I’m no fool) but I hope to get at least a few crossed off the list.
This week I have been working like crazy getting ready for my friend’s baby shower this Saturday. I’m am in charge of cupcakes. I have never done any cake decorating. Baking lots decorating … No. So I have done a little experimenting so that I will know exactly what I want to do when it is time to do the real ones.
Guess I don’t need to say it is a baseball themed shower.
I have done a little sewing for baby as well. They are waiting for the surprise of boy/girl do I picked a little of many colours.
The right is a few burp cloths and the left is a wipes case. The top is a little baggy with mommy supplies.
Important things like tissue, candy, Advil!
I have also been knitting a little sweater.
So I have to finish that and make a whole lot more cupcakes for Saturday. Yikes!!
Today I did something I have not done for a long time. I updated my library on Ravelry. I have to admit I didn’t see much point in having everything in my library…well let me tell you. It is so much fun searching patterns in just wheat I have in my library. I don’t know every pattern in my books and magazines off by heart and there are many sticky notes in them of things i have wanted to make. Well….perhaps I’m the last to come to this discovery but I am just thrilled that I have. I am not done but my books are in and now I’m onto magazines.
I should update my stash too so I know what is in those bins in my stash closet. I noticed that some of the yarn in my stash I used and forgot to take off Ravelry. I have had a few requests to sell/trade lately and was surprised that I still had said yarn. That does not mean I gave it away just because I forgot it was there…oh no…it just makes me want to dig it out and cast on.
But nap time here is over so I will have to wait now. Although B loves to play with my yarn it usually ends in a ball of yarn traveling around leaving a long tail in her wake. She has a few scrap balls that I wind up for her to unravel and then I wind them back up again… And so on. I would hate to see the tangled mess my skeins would be in if she helped me.
Sleeping next to my hubby in a queen sized bed seems crowded some most nights. Then he gets sick and I decide to sleep in the guest room since he was already feverish on our bed last night so his sick is on the sheets. Our guest room was my bed when I was still in my parents house so I thought it would be kinda nice. I love a bed to myself. The bed is a double. And it feels tiny with just me on it. hmmm how can that be?
All joking aside his being sick sucks. He isn’t as whiny as he usually is but I think that is cuz he is feeling too crappy to ask for much. He can’t help me with our LO at all because we obviously are hoping she won’t catch his flu. I hope I don’t get it because I don’t know how I would be able to look after B and feel sick. I’m sure one day it will happen I just hope not right now. And hubby has been using his sick days so if I were to be sick he couldn’t take time to help me.
Pity party over!
P.S. B has already woken up crying twice and took a good effort to calm back down. Hope this isn’t a sign how my night is going to go!
As I have been knitting more lately, I have been spending a lot of my internet time on knitting and have gotten back into reading some of the blogs I used to. I forgot how fun and tempting inspiring they can be.
Of course I love blogs with mostly knitting/crafting content and I like when bloggers post often (I wish I was one of those bloggers) at the moment I don’t think I have a favourite.
What about you? I’m curious about what blogs you read and like. Are they some of the ones I check? Something I have missed? Knitting? Crafting? Something else? Leave me a comment if you feel so inclined to share.
I finished Brynn’s Christmas sweater and yes I know Christmas is over. She wore it out today. So cute. As much as I thought the hood would never be finished it is a good size and I’m happy I stuck it out. I should do her other unfinished sweater next before she grows out of it.
