Sock Update and More!
Seeing as how it's Socktoberfest and all, I thought I should post an update on the state of the socks. Yesterday I ran out to the photographer's studio and placed the order for the photoshoot we just did, and while he tallied up the damage, I got to sit and knit for about 20 minutes in peace. I swear, that's the longest I've gotten to just sit and knit for at least a week, and it was heavenly. That little session got me up to the heel shaping on one of my Jaywalkers, and the other one is just behind. I don't think I've shown off the other pair just yet, but I started them the day we went to Eau Claire to see Stephanie. I've been saving them for distracted-knitting, since they are plain stockinette and I could knit on them in my sleep. I'm really liking this yarn and the way the colorway knits up.
This week has been much less stressful in Julie terms - we've been butting heads much less than we were a couple of weeks ago. Sophie, on the other hand, has been having a very hard time going to and staying asleep. It almost reminds me of the bad-old-days we had with Julie. I'm still not sure what's going on with that, but I do think she's having some bad gas, which might be part of it. Confession time: Joe's mom came home from Germany last weekend and brought a shipment of chocolate with her. It's gone now. So maybe it's my own fault. I told the pediatrician about this the other day when we went in and he practically laughed me out of his office (not our normal doc, just the one we could get into on short notice). Anyway, no sleep for Sophie means no free time for me and very little sleep. It'll get better soon enough. It always does.
In the mean time, here's where we were today. At the mall play area. Not the smartest place to be on a beautiful fall day, but I guess we don't make the best choices when we're sleep-deprived. The girls had a great time, and Sophie had fun trying to stand up inside the fake canoe.
Okay, I've had several good questions via comments and e-mail in the last few days, so let's get crackin' on those.
Amy saw me in Eau Claire last month and wants to know more about the sweater I was wearing that day. Here's a picture of me in the sweater when it was new:
That's Noro Silk Garden, the pattern is very basic but my own design. It's just a basic set-in sleeve cardigan, but I knit the front all in one piece and cut it down the middle so that the stripes would match the back in width and also match each other perfectly across the button band. Here's another confession - I knit this one mostly on a machine. I don't do much with my machines, but this yarn was languishing in the closet and I wanted to wear it. It was right after Julie was born and I had about as much free time then as I have now. So I whipped out all the stockinette parts on my Singer LK-150, then hand knit the ribbing parts and seamed it all together. What would have taken me months turned in to the project of a week. For knitters with more time on their hands, and more experience with machines, you could start and finish the project in a day.
Maggi wrote to tell me she is starting a crocheted mitered square blankie and wants to know if she can join the knit along - heck, yeah! You all should go check it out - it's pretty. For anyone who never got around to sending me a package of left over yarn - Maggi could use some. I imagine if you put your e-mail address in her comments and ask for a snail-mail address, she'd be happy to take what you have.
Carolyn wants to know what the heck I meant by navy green. Uh, I always thought that term meant a really dark, somewhat muddy green. Maybe I made it up long long ago. Or maybe its a regional thing or something? Anyone else ever heard this term?
Venice 23 wants to know which secret pal exchange I've joined. It's this one. Signups have closed and I just got my assignment today, so for those of you interested, you'll just have to watch and enjoy it all vicariously through me and the 400 other people playing this round. I'm not supposed to say much about who my pal is because it *is* a secret, but I'll tell you that she's in a foreign country.
Vicki started a blankie and wants to join the knit along. Her blankie is looking good too...she's got pictures of it a few posts back, so just scroll down her main page a bit.
Okay, that's it for now - I'm going to try to get my sidebar updated before I go to bed. I'm so glad I have a class to teach tomorrow - I get to leave the house alone!
This week has been much less stressful in Julie terms - we've been butting heads much less than we were a couple of weeks ago. Sophie, on the other hand, has been having a very hard time going to and staying asleep. It almost reminds me of the bad-old-days we had with Julie. I'm still not sure what's going on with that, but I do think she's having some bad gas, which might be part of it. Confession time: Joe's mom came home from Germany last weekend and brought a shipment of chocolate with her. It's gone now. So maybe it's my own fault. I told the pediatrician about this the other day when we went in and he practically laughed me out of his office (not our normal doc, just the one we could get into on short notice). Anyway, no sleep for Sophie means no free time for me and very little sleep. It'll get better soon enough. It always does.
In the mean time, here's where we were today. At the mall play area. Not the smartest place to be on a beautiful fall day, but I guess we don't make the best choices when we're sleep-deprived. The girls had a great time, and Sophie had fun trying to stand up inside the fake canoe.
Okay, I've had several good questions via comments and e-mail in the last few days, so let's get crackin' on those.
Amy saw me in Eau Claire last month and wants to know more about the sweater I was wearing that day. Here's a picture of me in the sweater when it was new:
That's Noro Silk Garden, the pattern is very basic but my own design. It's just a basic set-in sleeve cardigan, but I knit the front all in one piece and cut it down the middle so that the stripes would match the back in width and also match each other perfectly across the button band. Here's another confession - I knit this one mostly on a machine. I don't do much with my machines, but this yarn was languishing in the closet and I wanted to wear it. It was right after Julie was born and I had about as much free time then as I have now. So I whipped out all the stockinette parts on my Singer LK-150, then hand knit the ribbing parts and seamed it all together. What would have taken me months turned in to the project of a week. For knitters with more time on their hands, and more experience with machines, you could start and finish the project in a day.
Maggi wrote to tell me she is starting a crocheted mitered square blankie and wants to know if she can join the knit along - heck, yeah! You all should go check it out - it's pretty. For anyone who never got around to sending me a package of left over yarn - Maggi could use some. I imagine if you put your e-mail address in her comments and ask for a snail-mail address, she'd be happy to take what you have.
Carolyn wants to know what the heck I meant by navy green. Uh, I always thought that term meant a really dark, somewhat muddy green. Maybe I made it up long long ago. Or maybe its a regional thing or something? Anyone else ever heard this term?
Venice 23 wants to know which secret pal exchange I've joined. It's this one. Signups have closed and I just got my assignment today, so for those of you interested, you'll just have to watch and enjoy it all vicariously through me and the 400 other people playing this round. I'm not supposed to say much about who my pal is because it *is* a secret, but I'll tell you that she's in a foreign country.
Vicki started a blankie and wants to join the knit along. Her blankie is looking good too...she's got pictures of it a few posts back, so just scroll down her main page a bit.
Okay, that's it for now - I'm going to try to get my sidebar updated before I go to bed. I'm so glad I have a class to teach tomorrow - I get to leave the house alone!
posted by Shelly Kang at 12:15 AM
6 Comments:
Perhaps you're thinking of "army green"?
Thanks for adding me to the KAL!! I'm also part of SecretPal9...how exciting to have a pal in another country.....mine is in the same state as me...LOL
I think your socks are great. Someday I may do a blanket like yours, just have too many other projects in line now. Glad to hear that Julie can start having some dairy. What an amazing mom you are!!
Your doctor can laugh, but I had a similar experience with my first (and was too scared with the second to repeat). If I had chocolate while I was nursing, DD did not sleep. Did not. I always put it down to the caffeine. But if I even had one little piece of my Mother's Day Whitman's Sampler, no sleep. Terrible. She was also sensitive to any other caffeine containing thing, tea, whatever.
Hope it all quiets down soon!
Let the male doctors laugh all they want...they've never nursed a baby and if they had, they'd know chocolate and the caffeine it has in it will keep a baby awake for hours! I had a (male) doctor tell me that a baby doesn't get diareha from teething, they only get TEETH from teething. Aha. Right. He's the same idiot who told me to "let 'em just cry-it-out alone". We Mom's need to listen exclusively to our Inner Voice of Rightness.
Hope you get some sleep soon!
By-the-way, I tried DPN's this weekend and it was the sorriest sight you've ever seen. I wonder what I did wrong? Any chance you could take a picture of your socks on DPN's and how you hold them? I am so clueless and the books don't make sense.
You CUT it down the middle!!! You say that so casually - I'm in awe. The sweater is gorgeous.
I love the socks. ALL of them.
And here in Ontario, I've never heard of navy green. Maybe it's a regional term.
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