Bad Blogger!
I make a crappy blogger. What can I say? I'm a busy girl. Julie's sleeping and we've had a couple of good nights in a row despite the fact that she and I have both been sick for a couple of weeks now with the head cold from hell. Oh, and I weaned her last week but we seem to be over the trauma of that.Actually, I was pleasantly surprised. It was much less traumatic than I expected.
In my knitting life, I've been slaving away at an intarsia sweater. I planned it to knit along with the intarsia class that I offered at the Yarnery (yes, they finally put up a website!). But the class didn't fill up, and I was left to finish my sweater without an admiring audience. It is my own design, and I think it's turning out nicely, but there is much work left to be done. Not to mention lots of design decisions yet to be made. Want a sneak peek?
I wanted to make sure I got an in-progress photo with all the tangled mess of ends showing. Too bad I remembered to take it after finishing off the last row of diamonds - before that there were twice as many ends hanging down. I still haven't decided exactly how much of the sweater is going to be covered in diamonds, and it will depend to some extent on how long the yarn lasts.
Other recent projects include the never-ending stream of plain socks for public knitting, plus some baby projects for knocked-up friends. I'll get around to posting those on the knitting page one of these days.
The other thing keeping me busy has been Julie's scrapbook. I hate to admit that I "do" scrapbooking, but there you have it. I want her pictures to be organized and captioned and safely there for her. So I spent a couple weeks worth of naptimes catching her album up to date. It is embarrassing that the album for just her first year is about three inches thick. But she looooves to look through it. I keep it on a shelf in my office just out of her reach, and she will sometimes point to it and say "book book book" until I get it down and flip through it with her. Her favorite page is the one where I stuck one of the tiny socks that Jean Christenson knit for her and that she wore as a newborn.
Anyway, I had planned to catch up on putting some of my own pictures in scrapbooks - the few that I have from my own childhood as well as the last of our wedding snapshots - but it's all still sitting there on the table neglected for the last week or so. I got sucked into that darn intarsia sweater and it's taken over my free time.
Oh! I wanted to mention this recipe I got off the Food Network's website. I was looking for something new and delicious to make with kale since it is so good for you but in my experience tastes so awful. I've had good luck with Food Network recipes in the past and this Portuguese Kale Soup rocks! I've made it twice in the last month, and I'm running out of the second double-batch already so I'm going to have to make it again. I like it, Joe eats it without complaint, and Julie loves it. It's one of the few things I can put in front of her and know that she's going to eat it. And it's good for you!
I wanted to mention also some of the classes Julie and I have been going to. We started up a couple of new ones in January and they are great. There is a great toddler music class at the MacPhail Center for Music, which is much better than the one we had been going to at a local church. The teacher is great, plays piano and guitar and sings well, plus there are lots of cool props to go along with the songs. The week after our first class Joe noticed one day that Julie was walking along funny and I had to explain that she was taking "giant steps" like we did in class to the "skip to my lou" song. She hasn't quite gotten the tippy-toes part down yet.
Also, we started going to a toddler art class at ArtiCulture. The teacher, Ellen, is incredibly animated and great with kids. Each week has a theme and she brings in books and games to match the theme, plus some wonderful, usually messy art project for the kids. We've done finger paint, paste, beads, and stamping so far. A lot of it is stuff I never would have thought to try with Julie yet, and some of it she does and some of it she lets me do, but it's all fun for both of us. And I don't have to deal with the mess!
In my knitting life, I've been slaving away at an intarsia sweater. I planned it to knit along with the intarsia class that I offered at the Yarnery (yes, they finally put up a website!). But the class didn't fill up, and I was left to finish my sweater without an admiring audience. It is my own design, and I think it's turning out nicely, but there is much work left to be done. Not to mention lots of design decisions yet to be made. Want a sneak peek?
I wanted to make sure I got an in-progress photo with all the tangled mess of ends showing. Too bad I remembered to take it after finishing off the last row of diamonds - before that there were twice as many ends hanging down. I still haven't decided exactly how much of the sweater is going to be covered in diamonds, and it will depend to some extent on how long the yarn lasts.
Other recent projects include the never-ending stream of plain socks for public knitting, plus some baby projects for knocked-up friends. I'll get around to posting those on the knitting page one of these days.
The other thing keeping me busy has been Julie's scrapbook. I hate to admit that I "do" scrapbooking, but there you have it. I want her pictures to be organized and captioned and safely there for her. So I spent a couple weeks worth of naptimes catching her album up to date. It is embarrassing that the album for just her first year is about three inches thick. But she looooves to look through it. I keep it on a shelf in my office just out of her reach, and she will sometimes point to it and say "book book book" until I get it down and flip through it with her. Her favorite page is the one where I stuck one of the tiny socks that Jean Christenson knit for her and that she wore as a newborn.
Anyway, I had planned to catch up on putting some of my own pictures in scrapbooks - the few that I have from my own childhood as well as the last of our wedding snapshots - but it's all still sitting there on the table neglected for the last week or so. I got sucked into that darn intarsia sweater and it's taken over my free time.
Oh! I wanted to mention this recipe I got off the Food Network's website. I was looking for something new and delicious to make with kale since it is so good for you but in my experience tastes so awful. I've had good luck with Food Network recipes in the past and this Portuguese Kale Soup rocks! I've made it twice in the last month, and I'm running out of the second double-batch already so I'm going to have to make it again. I like it, Joe eats it without complaint, and Julie loves it. It's one of the few things I can put in front of her and know that she's going to eat it. And it's good for you!
I wanted to mention also some of the classes Julie and I have been going to. We started up a couple of new ones in January and they are great. There is a great toddler music class at the MacPhail Center for Music, which is much better than the one we had been going to at a local church. The teacher is great, plays piano and guitar and sings well, plus there are lots of cool props to go along with the songs. The week after our first class Joe noticed one day that Julie was walking along funny and I had to explain that she was taking "giant steps" like we did in class to the "skip to my lou" song. She hasn't quite gotten the tippy-toes part down yet.
Also, we started going to a toddler art class at ArtiCulture. The teacher, Ellen, is incredibly animated and great with kids. Each week has a theme and she brings in books and games to match the theme, plus some wonderful, usually messy art project for the kids. We've done finger paint, paste, beads, and stamping so far. A lot of it is stuff I never would have thought to try with Julie yet, and some of it she does and some of it she lets me do, but it's all fun for both of us. And I don't have to deal with the mess!
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