sherriknits

 Tonight was my night to answer the phones at a fundraiser.  It wasn’t bad (for those of you who heard me whining about having to go) … a friend of mine came to keep me company.  I knit through part of it until the phones started ringing.  I had planned to do a different heel, but I cannot knit mindlessly while learning a new thing, so I just reverted to the old standby eye-of-the-partridge heel, which I do like.  This sock is moving along quickly for the little time I’ve spent on it.

While hanging out tonight, though, my friend reminded me of the little surprise birthday party we put on for a friend of ours.  I think we are running out of ways to actually surprise her but we always bring her a tea party to her gift shop.  We bring it all…tea, tea pot, cups, table cloth, the works. 

The big question tonight was what to get her.  I volunteered to make a linen face cloth but given my track record lately, it may be challenging to actually get it *finished*!  Now that I have offered, though…it’s what we’re going on to build the rest of the event.  It’s always challenging since she has the one cool gift shop in town…but somehow we always manage to come through with something we’re satisfied with.

Soooo….tomorrow I pick up a new project!  eeek!

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Tonight was knit night with a bunch of friends.  I was smart and decided not to work on my shawl.  After spending most of yesterday on one row, why tempt fate and try again? 

Instead, I cast on some Tofutsie socks.  I had a great visit with a new friend on the phone today who pointed me to a no-brainer rib.  Of course, I had to use my brains for the first few rows because I kept messing it up.  lol  After I really got rolling on it, I did well until I noticed I forgot to purl for about 10 rows in one of the ribs … but hey, it was easy to drop that stitch down and fix it.

You can’t see the ribbing at all in this.  The lighting was terrible and this was the best I could do.  I’m not wild at all about the colors of this yarn, I always wonder what I see before I actually start to knit with it.   I do like the yarn though, it will make a great summer sock.  I plan to make a short cuff so these should go really fast.  Everyone else has had to add many more stitches than they normally do, but mine seem okay at 64 on a size 0.  The label says to use 2s but I can’t imagine how loose they would be.  I’m an average knitter and these seem a little loose on 0s. 

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We had to go for the little guy’s therapy today…an hour drive and big sis did the driving.  I was excited to have knitting time.  I spent the drive up and the hour at therapy knitting and re-knitting the same row.  It was the silliest thing…I’d come out 1 short, 5 too many, 1 short, 1 too many … over and over.  I guess I shouldn’t have been talking, or should have brought mindless knitting with me.  It’s kind of hard counting all those yo, ssk, k2tog, etc. while watching a little boy jumping across the room, or swinging back and forth while throwing things at a target.  lol

I didn’t mind.  I’m enjoying the pattern.  The drive was nice and the company was good. 

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I frogged the shawl.  I planned to make a different shawl, read the pattern and decided I didn’t feel like fooling around with a provisional cast-on today, especially since I don’t have a crochet hook handy.  I surfed many, many sites looking for something else to knit.  Then I thought what a waste of time…this pattern has the edging knit right into it and the points didn’t look so bad after all.  I re-started it and got almost back to where I had been with very little effort.  I had one funny spot in it before so now that is gone.  Now I don’t plan on filling this blog with pictures of the little imp, but (don’t laugh) he had on a white shirt and I thought it was the best background I could find in the late afternoon light.  He was totally bored and bugged that he had to pose.  The first pic with the smile didn’t show the pattern at all. 

We had a great day.  The kids were all home together and that was fun.  Hubby sang a beautiful song at church this morning and I came home and started dinner after first service.  It was done by the time he got home.  We had the egg hunt for the little imp…he is quite entertaining every year.  We’re still hiding the eggs in pretty obvious places but he tends to only see them one at a time and then laughingly scolds us for putting them there.  He especially got a kick out of the one on the turntable of daddy’s record player (turned on of course!).  We had to get dinner out of the way early so our oldest daughter could get to her fiance’s dinner at 5.  I don’t miss those days…glad to stay home. 

Here’s a picture of our oldest and youngest together.

I do hope everyone had a great day.  Happy Easter!

Tags: my life. Kids. Knitting

Just wanted a picture of this before it hits the frog pond.  I do like it and love working with the Louet Gems Merino, but I really wanted something more rounded and this one just feels too “pointy” to me for where I’m at right now.  I do like the pattern (Sivia Harding), though and will probably use it another time.  For all the knitting I have managed to turn out (not ALL of it gets frogged and tinked!!!), I have nothing that really *shows*.  I decided I need something besides socks!  This is actually a pretty easy pattern although this far into it, I haven’t gotten the rhythm of the pattern, I am just doing what it says.  I’m tempted to leave it, but I really don’t need one more unfinished project sitting around.  :-s

I nearly had myself talked in to working on my poor Charlotte’s Web shawl that I unintentionally abandoned last summer but when I took it out of the bag today to look at, I just wasn’t ready.  The colors aren’t really speaking to me right now and I was afraid if I started working on it, it would really end up at the frog pond and I didn’t really want to be rash right now.  Thankfully, I quit working on it before life got so incredibly stressful or I’d have had a lot of emotion attached to it that didn’t need to be there.  I need to go back and read what Stephanie had to say about that in her new book.  I remember I had missed one stitch in the last lifeline and I had one tiny mistake in the row I was working on…if I’d been smart, I’d have written it down but why start being smart about those things now! 

Happy Easter!

Tags: my life. Knitting

I haven’t been knitting much because I have been spending most of my time getting my very much neglected bookkeeping done.  To “relax”, I’ve been playing with this.  Before I go to bed tonight, I have to move mountains of paper off the floor…but I just needed to take a break and play a little.  Hopefully soon, I will get back to what’s important…knitting!!!

PS….previous blog entries are here

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