Step away from the computer ... another blog post...

I have to show this off. I just finished it up (in fact, it is wet in this pic and blocking...)





I was fortunate enough to test knit this pattern from Sweet Mama - Small Sugar. It is a seamless infant kimono with three different sleeve finish options.

I love seamless. I just love it.

This is a great pattern.

This lovely will be sent to my niece for her daughter, my great niece. I think she will fill it out quite nicely. Now I just have to keep my fingers crossed that she won't felt the crap out of it ... inadvertently, of course. It is single ply merino.

Hello blog

I really should get in a better habit of blogging, but I have really tried to limit my non-work computer time because I like to not have to work on the weekends. And when I distract myself (much like ... right now), it takes away from that work time.

But I felt that the blog had been ignored long enough.

Heather, obviously I didn't make it to the fest. We decided to not suck away on the gas money. It would have been a ton of fun (even though DH said "isn't that one of those places where, once you see one thing, you see it all?" ... yeah... kinda like Lowes, dear). Hope you had a great time.

Business work is about all I have done, except for work on the ASJ for # 2.

I wish I could take credit for the beautiful dye work on the tshirt, but I can't. That is my talented fellow WAHM, Pam from The Indigo Onion. She is truly a treasure.




LOVE this button ... also can't take credit for it. It is from my dear colleague, Teri from The Enchanted Nursery.




But I CAN take all the credit for the work on this guy ... I've named him Ted. He reminds me of my cousin, Ted, who is living and working in Beijing with his family. I think it is the ears.




Here he is, "monkey"ing around ...




Of course, # 1 and # 3 have laid claim to him.

# 3's fifth birthday is coming up pretty soon, and I will be making her this. She loves dolls. She loves mermaids. She loves anything with long hair. I need to start cracking on her tonight, actually. I mean, I only have 11 more days to get her finished, and only at nighttime.

There. That should do it. Blog... you are no longer ignored.

Adult Surprise Jacket on the needles

I have started with # 2's ASJ. He picked out his yarn (well, ok .. he didn't "pick" it out ... I showed it to him and he said he liked it). Cast on 225 stitches and am going through them like a good soldier. I just don't put any thought into the fact that I have to knit every row. I just trudge along, waiting for the next thing.

I ordered some Knit Picks yarns to coordinate with the three skeins that are offering the "inspiraction" for the jacket. I am hoping the boy will wear it when it is finished, or better yet, that it still fits him.

I *should* have this done in a month or two months.

Or a year.

Other than that, I have been working on this and that. Finshing the BSJ was the first and only thing that I worked on for quite some time.

I need to finish up some shorts for a set that I want to put up this weekend at Necessitae. I am hoping to get that accomplished.

In non-knitting news, some friends and I are taking off for a cabin in Michigan to scrapbook, fellowship, and laugh until it hurts and we have pounding headaches.

Good times. Good times.

Finished!

And I don't think that this is big enough to fit # 3, but that is ok. She doesn't need this one.

This one will go to my great nephew. He will look smashing in it. I will snap a picture of it when I have the buttons on it. I might be lucky enough to snap a pic of him IN it.

But I won't hold my breath.

The construction really is amazing. As many times as I read that the construction was amazing, that EZ was ahead of her time, that EZ's mind could think around corners .. I just didn't "get" it.

I do now.

Boy, do I.

Until I finally folded the whole thing up did I finally understand the construction. I am glad that I made this smaller one first so I can understand the construction of it.

Next I want to make one for # 3. Or maybe one for # 2. I have the yarn in mind. I just need to get some corresponding yarn colors to make the jacket big enough for him.

Pictures to come.

Close to the finish

I have to knit the buttonholes, and then knit the six rows afterward, and then seam it up and then BSJ # 1 will be finished. I will have to see who it will fit in order to determine what buttons would be good for it.

Then I think ... I *think* I will move on to an ASJ for # 1. She said she would wear it.

If she doesn't, I will tan. her. hide.

Working on a pair of shorts.

Bought some yarn.

Yeah. I'm a weak one. I admit it.

Sold some things at the store. Made my day. Gave me hope.

I promise to actually have some pictures to actually look like I am knitting. Because really I am.
And I also have to take a pic of my newest toy: a yarn bowl from Rising Sun Earthworks. It is pretty cool. Even DH said "how neat" when he saw it.

It really is.