Don't Ever Let Them Tell You...
...That this parenting thing isn't a full-time job. Julie was up some time before 7 a.m. this morning. I just finally put Sophie down at 11, and it was non-stop parenting in between. I'm not complaining - it's the best job I've ever had; but it's definitely a job. At least, as Joe put it when he came out to check on me and Sophie around 10:30, Sophie was happy and awake instead of screaming and awake as we experienced so many times with Julie.
I'm feeling really disappointed in myself about the bavarian-twist sweater for Julie. It is becoming increasingly clear to me that it's not going to be done in time for the photo shoot. To work on it, I need blocks of uninterrupted time to concentrate and not make stupid mistakes. Time before midnight when I'm not completely zonked from a hectic day. I need to think through the sleeves a bit before casting them on willy-nilly. Even if I didn't have this scrap yarn project going on, finding this time would be a challenge. As it is, there is no way it's going to be done and blocked in the next two weeks - not unless Sophie and Julie magically start taking two-hour naps every day starting tomorrow. I just hope I can finish it in time for the fair. Never mind about the leggings that are only seeing a row or two when we're out and about. I wanted to enter them in the fair as well, but I'll be lucky if I finish them in time to give them to Julie for her birthday as planned. :-(
Anyway, it was another glorious day for the mailbag. Shall we open some packages? C'mon, you know you want to.
Teresa from Ritchener, Ontario gets the award for most interesting packaging to date. It looks like the kind of bag your newspaper comes in maybe - all taped together to make a packet that served better than some of the envelopes I've gotten so far. Hidden inside the humble-looking packet were a bunch of nice yarns, all pretty much what I asked for, and the most amazing note including a spreadsheet detailing the brand, fiber content, color, weight and yardage of each bit. Teresa has got to be the most organized knitter ever!
Pam from Burr Ridge, Illinois (and apparently a member of the Hinsdale South Booster Club by her stationery) sent two nice blobs of cotton/wool blend and a nice Norwegian wool/nylon sock yarn as well. pretty pretty!
Charlotte in Ann Arbor, Michigan sent a nice little egg-sized ball of exactly-what-I-asked-for.
Brenda in Kennebunk, Maine sent some cotton/wool Sockotta, some Socks that Rock (oh, and it's so funny that I asked about STR the other day - Of course I've heard of Socks that Rock, just didn't make the connection to the abbreviation. I told you this Mommy business fries the brain.), and some Regia. All very nice stuff. Brenda, I love it that Howie is on your return address label. I also love those felted bowls. must...look...the...other...way...can't...start...more...projects....
Chris of Briar Rose Fibers sent me some of her very own handpainted yarn. They are beautiful, but unfortunately a little too thick for the current blanket. Chris, can you tell me which ones these are? They might fit in really well with the Mountain Colors stash I've got building, and even if not, there's enough here for some kind of standalone project like a scarf since the colors compliment each other pretty well.
JennaKate managed to put this package together for me despite preparing to move to Grand Forks, ND and dealing with simultaneous bumblebee and ant infestations in the old house. Let's all send some calming vibes her way. Poor girl sent me an e-mail saying she had accidentally forgotten to include a note in the package with her name on it, and that she couldn't remember what was in it but look for the Grand Forks return address, and I figured it out just fine. There's some Regia-type stuff in here, what looks like Bearfoot from Mountain Colors maybe (I'd love confirmation of that when you get a chance, Jenna) some Fixation, and some other wooly stuff.
That's the bottom of the mail bag for today. Thanks to all six of you for bringing our total up to 76 packages so far! We might just hit 100 before this is over. And by the way, as I type this, Sophie is back down here with me, nursing on the Boppy pillow. Forgive the typos.
Want to see what the blanket has been up to today? No squares. You heard me right. I didn't knit a single square today. Nope. Instead, I put to good use some of the dark blue yarn I bought at the Yarnery when I was there last night and started in on some I-cord bind-off for the bottom edge. I was just sick and tired of all those loose ends hanging off from the provisional casts-on and I really wanted to see whether this I-cord scheme was going to be acceptable. Plus, I feel an obligation to any readers out there who might be knitting along at home to get the rest of the tutorial up as soon as possible. I haven't taken the tutorial pictures yet, but it'll be coming soon. In any case, I'm happy with the edging. It's subtle, but adds a nice gentle polish to the bottom edge...and I'll have that many ends over and done with when I finish the bottom.
Remember the note cards I was talking about last night? Here's a picture of Harry sniffing at one of my new creations. You can't really see it all that well in the picture, I'm afraid, but it's just a hard copy of the close-up picture I posted last night printed on some high-resolution but not photo-quality paper, glued to an inexpensive blank note card bought at Office Depot. I think it looks pretty good, though. I really like this idea - you could use any kind of pretty picture for it, any detail of your knitting be it lace, cables, plain old stockinette. It only took about 5 minutes to do, too. Jen, I was thinking about you as I did this. You'll get to see it on Friday if you want.
And now for your cute-baby-of-the-day...Sophie in her Jumperoo this evening, then laying on her play mat around 10:30. She really is a wonderful baby. Even when she woke up just now, picking her up felt so good - her squishy little body curling up into my chest, her little arm curling around my neck as she nuzzled under my chin. It's totally all worth it.
I'm feeling really disappointed in myself about the bavarian-twist sweater for Julie. It is becoming increasingly clear to me that it's not going to be done in time for the photo shoot. To work on it, I need blocks of uninterrupted time to concentrate and not make stupid mistakes. Time before midnight when I'm not completely zonked from a hectic day. I need to think through the sleeves a bit before casting them on willy-nilly. Even if I didn't have this scrap yarn project going on, finding this time would be a challenge. As it is, there is no way it's going to be done and blocked in the next two weeks - not unless Sophie and Julie magically start taking two-hour naps every day starting tomorrow. I just hope I can finish it in time for the fair. Never mind about the leggings that are only seeing a row or two when we're out and about. I wanted to enter them in the fair as well, but I'll be lucky if I finish them in time to give them to Julie for her birthday as planned. :-(
Anyway, it was another glorious day for the mailbag. Shall we open some packages? C'mon, you know you want to.
Teresa from Ritchener, Ontario gets the award for most interesting packaging to date. It looks like the kind of bag your newspaper comes in maybe - all taped together to make a packet that served better than some of the envelopes I've gotten so far. Hidden inside the humble-looking packet were a bunch of nice yarns, all pretty much what I asked for, and the most amazing note including a spreadsheet detailing the brand, fiber content, color, weight and yardage of each bit. Teresa has got to be the most organized knitter ever!
Pam from Burr Ridge, Illinois (and apparently a member of the Hinsdale South Booster Club by her stationery) sent two nice blobs of cotton/wool blend and a nice Norwegian wool/nylon sock yarn as well. pretty pretty!
Charlotte in Ann Arbor, Michigan sent a nice little egg-sized ball of exactly-what-I-asked-for.
Brenda in Kennebunk, Maine sent some cotton/wool Sockotta, some Socks that Rock (oh, and it's so funny that I asked about STR the other day - Of course I've heard of Socks that Rock, just didn't make the connection to the abbreviation. I told you this Mommy business fries the brain.), and some Regia. All very nice stuff. Brenda, I love it that Howie is on your return address label. I also love those felted bowls. must...look...the...other...way...can't...start...more...projects....
Chris of Briar Rose Fibers sent me some of her very own handpainted yarn. They are beautiful, but unfortunately a little too thick for the current blanket. Chris, can you tell me which ones these are? They might fit in really well with the Mountain Colors stash I've got building, and even if not, there's enough here for some kind of standalone project like a scarf since the colors compliment each other pretty well.
JennaKate managed to put this package together for me despite preparing to move to Grand Forks, ND and dealing with simultaneous bumblebee and ant infestations in the old house. Let's all send some calming vibes her way. Poor girl sent me an e-mail saying she had accidentally forgotten to include a note in the package with her name on it, and that she couldn't remember what was in it but look for the Grand Forks return address, and I figured it out just fine. There's some Regia-type stuff in here, what looks like Bearfoot from Mountain Colors maybe (I'd love confirmation of that when you get a chance, Jenna) some Fixation, and some other wooly stuff.
That's the bottom of the mail bag for today. Thanks to all six of you for bringing our total up to 76 packages so far! We might just hit 100 before this is over. And by the way, as I type this, Sophie is back down here with me, nursing on the Boppy pillow. Forgive the typos.
Want to see what the blanket has been up to today? No squares. You heard me right. I didn't knit a single square today. Nope. Instead, I put to good use some of the dark blue yarn I bought at the Yarnery when I was there last night and started in on some I-cord bind-off for the bottom edge. I was just sick and tired of all those loose ends hanging off from the provisional casts-on and I really wanted to see whether this I-cord scheme was going to be acceptable. Plus, I feel an obligation to any readers out there who might be knitting along at home to get the rest of the tutorial up as soon as possible. I haven't taken the tutorial pictures yet, but it'll be coming soon. In any case, I'm happy with the edging. It's subtle, but adds a nice gentle polish to the bottom edge...and I'll have that many ends over and done with when I finish the bottom.
Remember the note cards I was talking about last night? Here's a picture of Harry sniffing at one of my new creations. You can't really see it all that well in the picture, I'm afraid, but it's just a hard copy of the close-up picture I posted last night printed on some high-resolution but not photo-quality paper, glued to an inexpensive blank note card bought at Office Depot. I think it looks pretty good, though. I really like this idea - you could use any kind of pretty picture for it, any detail of your knitting be it lace, cables, plain old stockinette. It only took about 5 minutes to do, too. Jen, I was thinking about you as I did this. You'll get to see it on Friday if you want.
And now for your cute-baby-of-the-day...Sophie in her Jumperoo this evening, then laying on her play mat around 10:30. She really is a wonderful baby. Even when she woke up just now, picking her up felt so good - her squishy little body curling up into my chest, her little arm curling around my neck as she nuzzled under my chin. It's totally all worth it.
posted by Shelly Kang at 10:54 PM
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Someday they'll both crash out around 8:30pm and not wake up until 7:30am. Tie a knot in that rope and just hang on until they get to that point. It's what I did.
My daughter rarely napped for more than 45 minutes until she started eating solid foods at about 15 months.
I'm sure I was awful. I stopped taking naps before I was a year old. I just layed in the crib and made "that noise" as the yarn harlot puts it.
http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/archives/2005/01/26/that_noise.html
Lovely.
Moming is a full time job. That's why I haven't done it yet. I don't want to have to pay someone else to mom for me. :(
I'm sure I was awful. I stopped taking naps before I was a year old. I just layed in the crib and made "that noise" as the yarn harlot puts it.
http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/archives/2005/01/26/that_noise.html
Lovely.
Moming is a full time job. That's why I haven't done it yet. I don't want to have to pay someone else to mom for me. :(
The last part of that web address reads
/01/26/that_noise.html
Oh, no, no, no, don't let them tell you it's a full time job, it's more! 18 hour days (if you're lucky), on call the other 6, no days off for sickness (not really). It is wonderful and rewarding and hard and mind numbing and draining and fulfilling all at once. But anyone telling me that a day of parenting and a day of office work are the same thing can go sell that somewhere else, 'cause that is not the case!
Sophie is such a cutie!
I got the yarn today! I can't wait to start knitting on it, jsut have to find the right needles to use ^_^. It's sooo soft, do you remember/know what it is? I got the blue/green sockyarn. Thank you so much!!! I'll be sure to keep you posted on my progress ^_^
I posted a progress photo today, yay! So much fun!
Hi! Seeing the pic really jogs the brain...
the mauvey-purple is debbie bliss cashmerino aran.
purple & brown is artyarns supermerino.
the blue and grey is opal handpaint. the blue and black, and greys are regia.
and the large fuzzy bit IS bearfoot - left over from mother in law socks!
the move is going well so far - we pick up the truck in 11 hours!
and somehow, the bees all disappeared, conquered by the knitterly vibes!
THANKS!
It's Chris from Briar Rose Fibers. I just finally found your blog. Your blanket is just wonderful. I think what I sent you is our China Doll sock yarn (discontinued) and our Legend fiber (straight up Merino). Whatever you do with them - just enjoy!
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