November is coming to a close

and quickly too. I can't believe how fast this month went by. Evie is going to be 7 months soon, yikes! As I promised there is a lot of knitting content and this post is picture heavy. :) (The post is all over the place because of how the pics uploaded, sorry.)

I love getting mail and lately I've been getting a lot, lol. Pictured above are some knitting goodies. The latest interweave knits and Cookie A's new book Knit Sock Love and I love knitting socks, lol. I can't wait to start on some. I haven't had a chance to cast on though because of all the christmas knitting, boo. Oh well christmas knitting can be fun.
I love pomegranates so I seeded 2 of them today, yum. I am going to take them to the Y with me either tomorrow or Tuesday and share in the yum (gorgeous) wealth. :)

J, Evie and I got our tree last night, yay! I'm so excited I love the smell and the look of a nicely lit tree. Christmas is so beautiful. :)
My Amaryllis Minerva bloomed yesterday. I'm so happy. It's beautiful. Hopefully I can get it to bloom a second time. This is my third Amaryllis and none of them have bloomed more than once, boo.
This is the sock I am knitting my brother for christmas. I hope he likes it. Its coming along nicely. Unfortunately its only the first and he has a size 13 foot (boo). Plus I need to knit a pair for my other brother who has equally large feet. Hopefully I can make quick work of this sock. It is a Cookie A pattern from her first book Sock Innovation called Sam.
These beautiful skeins were my one and only Black Friday purchase. I was not brave enough to fight the crowds for good deals. Plus other than more yarn what could I possibly need that badly? ;)
Finally these are my Mystery March Sock by Kristi Gerachi. I love them. My mom also loves them so if she still wants them (imperfections and all) I guess they will be hers. I love sharing my knitting but on rare occasions I actually keep some of it for myself, lol.

Thats about all thats happening here. I plan on taking Evie to see Santa either today or next weekend ( I think J wants to be there). My step-dads cross stitch stocking is coming along. I only started it 3 years ago? something like that. Anyway I might be able to finish it this year but if not whats one more year? I think we are going to Target today to get some christmas music and maybe a few more things. I like going to Target when there isn't anything to do and I want out of the house, lol. As far as the Leitmotif Cardigan goes its on hold for now. Its not a priority holiday knit. Hopefully I'll get it done while I can still wear it. I ordered the yarn for the Beagle sweater I am knitting for my step-dad. It hasn't shipped yet which is strange so I may need to call them on Monday to see whats going on. Anyway I am off to enjoy some more free time before Evie wakes from her nap. :)

Thanksgiving

We had an awesome Thanksgiving here. My friend dropped off her dog so she could fly to Cali. J made the turkey, stuffing, and yams. Evie and I played and had fun. I finished a pair of socks, yay (I needed those needles back, lol). We also went to a friends for some dessert and coffee. :) All in all it was a pretty full day. I love my family and am very grateful for them. I can't wait for Christmas so I can spend time with our families back in Ohio. :)

Next post will have more knitting content. Baby is crying, gotta run!

Ugh

and we cycle back to startitis. Well finishitis was bound to be short lived anyway. I started my Leitmotif Cardigan and have realized that my gauge must be way off so I am going to need to rip and restart...ugh. I got pretty far too so thats a little frustrating. Its not a hard pattern to get into though so I'm not too worried. I am setting it aside for now though b/c I can't look at it. It's making me angry, lol.

Instead my new plan is to take a sweater break and go back to socks. I wanted to make my brothers both a pair of socks for christmas anyway so I may as well start those. Maybe the Cardigan can be my travel project or something. I definitely need to do a gauge swatch though.... Other than all that the stash busting exercise is underway. My craft corner of the office will finally start to downsize hopefully. Not that I don't like having a nice little yarn collection but it looks really cluttered right now which is really annoying me. I don't generally buy yarn (except sock yarn) unless I have a pattern picked out for it. Otherwise it tends to sit in the basket unused....

Anyway I am off to cast on for some socks.

Blah weekend

Well this weekend kind of sucked. I taught my friday yoga class and then just chilled with my daughter all afternoon. We had dinner plans with friends to grab some sushi but that didn't happen. They bailed because they were tired and didn't want to go anywhere. We should have bailed too because I was exhausted and not feeling very well but we went anyway. I sat with my fussy 6 month old, staring like a zombie at my also tired husband. I woke up Saturday with a mild fever and vegged out all day on the couch with the kiddo. We were suppose to go to my friends farm for a bonfire and potluck dinner but by the time it was starting I was feeling worse. I tried to go to bed early but Evie was screaming and by then my fever had spiked to 103, yikes. So I laid in bed my skin felt like fire and my head was going to explode. I was having chills so I was snuggled under my blankets with a cold compress on my head and neck. J was trying to help with Evie but he had hw and other things to work on so he was just letting her exhaust herself on the living room floor. Apparently I can't sleep when I can hear her laughing or crying so I got up and fed her and put her down for the night. She woke again at 4:30am but by then I was feeling a lot better so J changed her diaper and brought her to bed so I could feed her. We slept in a bit which was good but I was still a little drained and dehydrated on sunday so I spent another day vegging out. My throat is still sore today but I am doing so much better than I was. Thankfully I don't have anything to worry about today. I'm going to go to the post office with my spoilees package and then to the grocery store (our fridge is pathetic plus I was craving cherry pie while I was sick...).

Finishitis?

Usually I have a serious case of startitis but my stash/WIP basket is threatening to take over my desk and my half of the office. So it must be stopped, lol.

These socks (Mystery March 2010 Socks) have been languishing for too long. I started them a really long time ago (March apparently). They are for my mom because she liked them when I was knitting them. I'm pretty far on them I just need to get past the heel flap and through the foot. So that shouldn't take too long. :)

These French Press Slippers were started as a stash buster. I had left over wool yarn that needed a project so I started them and never got to the second slipper. I just finished sewing this slipper together today.

My Vivian Cardigan (back view) I finished this cardigan last week and I LOVE it. I wear it all the time. Its comfortable and warm which makes me smile. :) I haven't even put in the zipper yet and I might not. I might just wear it without closure.

Vivian (front view)

Brattleboro (sp?) Hat. This hat is for my sister I knit it up in 2 days. I just need to buy some buttons and weave in the ends and its done. I really like it.

My Emmas. These socks were started before Evie was born. I took them to the hospital with me to work on. I of course never even took them out of the bag. Oh well they are FINALLY finished though and I really like them a lot.

Emmas together at last, lol. :)

Hopefully I get some of these projects wrapped up so I can start some more..... Next blog post I will write about my Leitmotif cardigan I started yesterday.

Is is really November?

It's a little hard to believe that November is here already. Evie will officially be 6 months on the 8th....yikes! I don't know what I'm going to do with myself, lol. She's rolling all over the place, putting EVERYTHING in her mouth. If she can touch it/grab it, it goes in the mouth, lol. I don't mind, actually I find it kind of entertaining. She cracks me up and makes me smile. I love her so much. ANYWAY enough talk about my little angel.

I have been busy busy with my knitting. I am on a finishing kick lately. I have been looking at all my WIP's and I am trying to make some sense of them. I have at least 2 socks OTN that need to be finished. I FINALLY finished my Emma's. I started them just before Evie was born and then I just never got around to finishing them but finish them I did last night. Yay! I started and am almost finished with a hat for my sister for Christmas. I'm not sure if I'm going to make another hat for my other sister yet. I kind of want to make a really cute cabled vest for her. It looks like it made with big yarn and needles so I should be able to finish it quickly. Oh Christmas knitting, so stressful sometimes but also so fun. I finished my Vivian cardigan, I just need to buy/add the zipper but that might not happen for a while. That hasn't stopped me from wearing it though, lol. I am going to cast on for another cardigan today. I also have a baby surprise jacket to make and a bunch of other stuff to do, blah, lol. I still have yet to make something for Evie. So that is definitely on my priority list. So much knitting so little time.... I'll add pics to my next post when I load them from my camera. Love, love, love getting some knitting off the needles. The yarn basket is a little out of control and definitely could use a little downsizing. :)

As for my spoilees package, its pretty much done. I might buy one or two more things and I actually have an idea of something else I would like to make for it, lol. Oh the never ending swap packages. I have to get it out of the house by the early send off date or I will just keep adding to it which I'm sure my husband will really appreciate, lol.

HW week 8

1. SPARSE VENUES
2. GO UNLOAD LOVE
3. A MOTH SEDAN
4. FLUSH CIGAR
5. SLICK AIRBUS
6. DUMB ANALOG
7. A DRY MOO-CALF
8. UNSNAP THE SKI
9. PIT-A-PAT RIVAL
10. AN OLD JEER

1. Severus Snape
2. Luna Lovegood
3. Dean Thomas
4. Argus Filch
5. Siruis Black
6. Ludo Bagman
7. Draco Malfoy
8. Stan Shunpike
9. Parvati Patil
10. Lee Jordan