Blankies, Babies and Dye Jobs Oh My!

First things first. The blankie says it's been feeling lonely and wants to be on the blog again. Poor thing has barely gotten to come all the way out of its basket these last few days as I've been working on the pants, and I don't think I've photographed it at all since I borrowed the in-laws' camera. So here it is in all it's current glory. As always, it's nice for me to lay it out and photograph it because I can see that there is actual progress being made, albeit plenty slow.



Here is a closeup of the area I was working on tonight. I just finished the big square on the top right. I'm still all in love with this project and would work on it night and day if only the rest of my life fell in line. Sophie was up rather late again this evening.



Speak of the devil, here is my little stinker. She doesn't like to sit in the high chair for very long at a time, and will only eat a bite or two of the rice cereal before stealing the spoon from me and pounding the tray with it. That's fine. Somehow she's managing to develop beautiful little Michelin-man rings and double chins on breastmilk alone, and I have no problem with that at all. Oh, she is such a sweet, squishy little baby I can totally forgive her for waking up and yelling at me every time I try to lay her in her crib.



Jo-Anne asked about the yarn I'm dyeing and whether I would try to remove the dye that's in the second skein before re-dyeing it. I had no idea that such a thing was even possible! No, that is not the plan. I was just thinking of adding more dye. Basically, maybe dyeing the same chunks again with the same colors and hope for more uniform saturation. The other thought running around in the gerbil wheel of my mind is to maybe dye the white chunks pink. I don't really want to make another skein exactly like the first one. Where's the fun in that? Anyway, there are still three totally white skeins of yarn sitting there waiting for attention, but I am not feeling very inspired at the moment in that regard, and there is SO no rush on this project since I have so very many other yards of perfectly lovely sock yarn to knit up. It's sure fun to talk and think about, though!

I'm trying to think positive thoughts for my friend J, who is having a breast biopsy tomorrow. It's probably nothing, but they couldn't tell for sure from a mammogram and ultrasound because she's nursing, so they're going to check it out more invasively tomorrow. Please, everyone - send whatever flavor of positive energy or prayer you believe in to J for a moment or two especially tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow, Sophie has her 6-month checkup (only a couple of weeks late) and hopefully we will get to go to the hospital in the evening to meet the newest member of our extended family. Joe's cousin had a baby boy this evening - a total surprise since they were expecting a girl, but we are happy since everyone is healthy. Welcome to the world, little Nathan!