Archives for October 2007
Saturday, October 27, 2007
The top border is finished. Now comes the fun part of figuring out how to pick up 103 stitches evenly along the left side. :) Yeah. I have a feeling it’s going to come out a little wonky, but that’s okay. It’s just a throw that will be tossed on the couch. Despite the trouble I’ve had with Homespun, looking at the blanket now that it’s looking like something, I’m actually pleased with how it’s coming along. It looks pretty neat. I’m looking forward to seeing the final result, now that I’m seeing it take shape.
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
With the cool weather finally settling in down here in Dixie, I feel the need to knit a sweater for Amelia. So I’ve chosen Smitten by Marie Grace Smith. It’s a cute little sweater that I think will look adorable on her. So now I’m in search of some inexpensive yarn in fun colors so I can get started on this ASAP.
Of course I told myself that I wouldn’t start anything new till Nez’s afghan was done, but I just can’t help it. Amelia really needs a sweater anyway. Nez will have to be patient.
But I’m working on her afghan. I had to rip back a few rows on the border. I tried to work on it at my weekly SNB and messed it up. So I’m back down to where I know it’s right and will start again. I brought it with me to work thinking I could get a row or two done at lunch.
But now I’m thinking I might head to Michael’s instead to get some yarn for Amelia’s sweater.
Yeah, I made her the pinwheel jacket and it’s adorable, but for some reason I don’t think it will fit her now. I have no idea what happened to it. I might just have to try blocking it and go from there, but the last time she tried it on, it was kind of snug and that was a few months ago. I hope it does fit, so she has something to wear while I work on Smitten.
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Friday, October 19, 2007
Sheesh. It’s been a while. October has officially become a busy month. With Amelia’s first birthday and trips to FL to have cake and presents with the grandparents and 2 weeks worth of sickness in our house and now preparing for Halloween, it’s been so busy. 2 weeks ago, Amelia came down with a cold or something and spiked fevers up to 103. An ear infection that had her screaming 3 nights straight from medication. Me developing the flu, I guess and being bed-ridden for 3-4 days. Then to find out it’s a massive sinus infection. So now I’m doped up on meds as well. Amelia had her one-year checkup and I baked cupcakes for her class at daycare. Plus we’re trying to figure out what to do for Halloween. It’s been a few busy weeks since I last posted.
And sadly enough, because of all the stuff going on, I’ve missed 2 SNB nights and have hardly worked on anything knitting/crochet related. It’s still warm here, so now that I’m working on the edge of my sister’s afghan the whole thing has to sit in my lap. Not fun to have a thick warm blanket on your lap when it’s sweltering hot. Plus I’ve messed up somehow and my ripple isn’t going the way it should. I need to take some time to recheck stitch count and pattern repeats to see where I went wrong and fix it. Then there’s a section hanging off the end of the border that I have no idea how it fits into the whole thing. It will be interesting to see where it goes, but I’m trying to take it one row at a time. With this yarn it’s so hard to see the stitches, much less in a ripple. ugh! I will be so glad to be done with this project so I can finally be done with Lion Brand Homespun for good.
As you can see, I finally also got my blog working again. So many errors and attempted fixes and it was all due to one plugin causing me so much grief. So I disabled that plugin and all is well.
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Thursday, October 4, 2007
There haven’t been many posts from me in a while. I’ve been crocheting even though there isn’t really anything new to report. I’ve pieced together the rectangles for my sister’s afghan and I’ve started on the wavy border. It looks really neat so far, but in the past week, we’ve all fallen ill. Guess the flu is going around and we all caught it. I’m still feeling sort of crappy, so I haven’t really worked on anything this week.
We’re going to FL this weekend for Amelia’s 1st birthday party, so I’ll be too busy anyway. Hopefully when I get back, I’ll be feeling more myself and things will get back to normal. Then I can really get working on the border and have something to show. Till then, you’ll just have to wait.
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