Baby coming, tonight!!!!

Okay, now you can have the baby...

I finished his blankie. Just have to block it tonight.

Here is my Seraphim:

And those socks I promised? The yarn was so dark that the pattern didn't show well. Must do again.

12 rows to go...

and Seraphim is finished. The emergency yarn arrived today. Thank you Eat Sleep Knit. I ordered that yarn in the middle of the night a couple of days ago and it arrived today!!! Now I can finish my shawl. We just won't pay any attention to the baby shawl I'm supposed to be working on. The baby is coming whether I finish or not. Plug gone, contractions started, just not timeable yet. It's only a matter of time.

Hey Em, Can Kayleb come out and play yet?????

Project issues

I've been underestimating the amount of yarn needed for a given project lately. Not just once, but many times. What sucks is I'm on a lace shawl kick. Yep, the punk chick is knitting lace again. So sue me. I like 'em.

Wellllllll, I'm almost through the second skein for Seraphim, in Malabrigo sock Impressionist Sky. I only have 30 rows to go. But the skein is looking a bit small. Time to rip out a couple of stitches, measure the yarn used, calculate the amount of yardage to go with a generous bind off, weigh the skein, and..... discover that I am about 200 yards short. What? Again? Okay so, let's just reinforce what I've been saying all along. I'm a loose knitter. There I've said it. So I went hunting last night. Hooray! Found a skein, ordered it. It should be here by week's end, I hope.

Next post: my own sock pattern.

Trying something new

Okay, so I'll admit I've been posting sporadically lately. To be frank, I've been a bit depressed. The last year had just been too hard. Two surgeries, cancer, work crap, the move that didn't happen crap, mom crap. Sometimes it's just too much. So I've decided to try something different. I'll log in every few days and post something good that happened. We'll see how it goes. Maybe this will help...

The Strangest Move

So, we were supposed to move to a house from the apartment yesterday. We went over Sunday night to do the inspection, and found mold. I had trouble breathing. Once the list of defects in the place exceeded the alloted space to write them down, we decided this was a big mistake. After 9 hours of fretting, we talked to the manager of our apartment complex, resigned a lease, terminated the lease on the house and changed gears. The movers were scheduled for Tuesday morning, so we let them come, but we moved stuff to a storage unit a few miles away. Not too bad, I think. It was weird, though, we were packing and unpacking at the same time, trying to get this together. I think we got it. What we ended up with is a bunch of boxes that still need to be unpacked, and two empty bedrooms. Here comes the family!!!!

I also cast on Seraphim. The stress got me. Oh, well.

Knitting Olympics 2010

It's long been the tradition of the Olympics that the participating countries suspend hostilities against other countries for the duration of the games. In the spirit of the tradition, I will not be participating this year, as the USA is presently engaged in hostile actions in several countries. Please do not miscontrue this as a commentary on the right or wrong-ness of the actions themselves, simply as a traditionalist with some integrity.

Besides, we are moving this week and for it to truly be a challenge for me as a knitter, I would have to execute a 3 skein shawl. In reality, I'll be lucky to knit one row.