Blankie Friday and Random Catchup
I'm not sure where I've been this week. I mean, I know exactly where I've been this week, but it's been a while since I've gone so long without a post. I was out two nights in a row, and that counts for something.
Wednesday I was out with some girlfriends - the girlfriends who get together for what we call Knitting Night but is really a gabfest with a little knitting thrown in. Usually, we meet at each others' houses, but this time we decided to go to a coffee shop in order to stay out of the way of our husbands putting little ones to bed. There was another group of knitters there, and I was tempted to go over and say hi to them, ask to see their projects and stuff. I didn't, though, because I was there to see my friends and time was short. The blankie came along for the ride because I wanted to knit some squares and show it off to my friends, and I realized as I was holding it up for them to admire that I was making a bit of a scene in front of the other group of knitters, and then I realized that I looked like a total ass and it was completely too late to say hello to them without being an even bigger ass. I still managed to have a great time that night, and I was sorry when it was time to go home.
Thursday I taught a new class at the yarn store called Damage Control, and it was all about how to fix mistakes and problems in knitting, plus a bunch more assvice and blather on my part. Really, it went pretty well, but talking for two and a half hours straight takes a little out of a girl. Look what followed me home from the store:
That's Mountain Colors Bearfoot. I know, I know I already have way too much sock yarn, but I had that 50% off coupon from the Knit-Out, and because traffic was awful, I didn't get there in time to think about what I really wanted to get, and this just jumped into my hands. Not that I regret it or anything. Someday, when it has ripened long enough in the stash, I know I am going to thoroughly enjoy knitting this right up!
Alright, let's get to the goods. This week's progress is sixteen squares. As with last week, I took tons of pics, and you can click through to the bigger pictures if you feel the burning need.
There's not a whole lot more to say about the blankie this week.
Hey, before I forget! I keep meaning to mention this, but I'm pretty excited about it. I got invited to teach for a week this summer at Camp Unistar, which is this awesome camp up in northern Minnesota on an island in the middle of a lake. It's run by the Unitarian church and is, from everything I've heard, a great family vacation spot. I've been wanting to go to this camp since I first heard about it about eight years ago, and now I get to go with my entire family, spend a couple hours each day evangelizing knitting, and my work will pay for most of our trip. It is a win-win-win situation, and I'm thrilled!
Julie and I did a little craft project the other day. Really, we were rejuvenating a toy I made for her a few years ago that I discovered while we were reorganizing and putting away toys the other day. It's so simple, it's crazy, but she loved it when she was six months old, and she and Sophie spent the whole afternoon playing with it again that day, and all week since. It's a bunch of lids from juice concentrate cans, to which we added some stickers; and a cornmeal cannister with a hole cut in the lid and wrapped with a bit of colorful paper.
Sophie loves to put the "coins" in the slot one at a time. Julie loves to hoard the coins and pretend that they are cookies and various other things.
This is just a random cute Sophie picture. She's eating breakfast this morning, including rice puffs, kiwi fruit, pear, and oatmeal. Her little constipation problem has pretty much cleared up, but in the mean time she developed an ear infection. She's feeling much better now that she's on antibiotics, but I spent a few days there trying to figure out what was going on before I dragged her back in to the doctor's office. Still not walking yet, but she is doing a new trick - she's pointing at everything. When she sees something that she finds interesting or neat, she points at it and makes this little growly grunting noise that makes me call her "gila monster" and smiles a huge smile when I tell her what it is. She also points at my plate no matter what meal we are eating and says "ah! ah! ah!" like a little baby bird, making it painfully clear that she wants what I'm having, thankyouverymuch.
Okay, that's it! That's all I have to say tonight. We're in for up to 15 inches of snow this weekend. Call me crazy, but I'm pretty excited about it. I hope it's a big, wet snow so that we can go out and make a giant snowman family.
Wednesday I was out with some girlfriends - the girlfriends who get together for what we call Knitting Night but is really a gabfest with a little knitting thrown in. Usually, we meet at each others' houses, but this time we decided to go to a coffee shop in order to stay out of the way of our husbands putting little ones to bed. There was another group of knitters there, and I was tempted to go over and say hi to them, ask to see their projects and stuff. I didn't, though, because I was there to see my friends and time was short. The blankie came along for the ride because I wanted to knit some squares and show it off to my friends, and I realized as I was holding it up for them to admire that I was making a bit of a scene in front of the other group of knitters, and then I realized that I looked like a total ass and it was completely too late to say hello to them without being an even bigger ass. I still managed to have a great time that night, and I was sorry when it was time to go home.
Thursday I taught a new class at the yarn store called Damage Control, and it was all about how to fix mistakes and problems in knitting, plus a bunch more assvice and blather on my part. Really, it went pretty well, but talking for two and a half hours straight takes a little out of a girl. Look what followed me home from the store:
That's Mountain Colors Bearfoot. I know, I know I already have way too much sock yarn, but I had that 50% off coupon from the Knit-Out, and because traffic was awful, I didn't get there in time to think about what I really wanted to get, and this just jumped into my hands. Not that I regret it or anything. Someday, when it has ripened long enough in the stash, I know I am going to thoroughly enjoy knitting this right up!
Alright, let's get to the goods. This week's progress is sixteen squares. As with last week, I took tons of pics, and you can click through to the bigger pictures if you feel the burning need.
There's not a whole lot more to say about the blankie this week.
Hey, before I forget! I keep meaning to mention this, but I'm pretty excited about it. I got invited to teach for a week this summer at Camp Unistar, which is this awesome camp up in northern Minnesota on an island in the middle of a lake. It's run by the Unitarian church and is, from everything I've heard, a great family vacation spot. I've been wanting to go to this camp since I first heard about it about eight years ago, and now I get to go with my entire family, spend a couple hours each day evangelizing knitting, and my work will pay for most of our trip. It is a win-win-win situation, and I'm thrilled!
Julie and I did a little craft project the other day. Really, we were rejuvenating a toy I made for her a few years ago that I discovered while we were reorganizing and putting away toys the other day. It's so simple, it's crazy, but she loved it when she was six months old, and she and Sophie spent the whole afternoon playing with it again that day, and all week since. It's a bunch of lids from juice concentrate cans, to which we added some stickers; and a cornmeal cannister with a hole cut in the lid and wrapped with a bit of colorful paper.
Sophie loves to put the "coins" in the slot one at a time. Julie loves to hoard the coins and pretend that they are cookies and various other things.
This is just a random cute Sophie picture. She's eating breakfast this morning, including rice puffs, kiwi fruit, pear, and oatmeal. Her little constipation problem has pretty much cleared up, but in the mean time she developed an ear infection. She's feeling much better now that she's on antibiotics, but I spent a few days there trying to figure out what was going on before I dragged her back in to the doctor's office. Still not walking yet, but she is doing a new trick - she's pointing at everything. When she sees something that she finds interesting or neat, she points at it and makes this little growly grunting noise that makes me call her "gila monster" and smiles a huge smile when I tell her what it is. She also points at my plate no matter what meal we are eating and says "ah! ah! ah!" like a little baby bird, making it painfully clear that she wants what I'm having, thankyouverymuch.
Okay, that's it! That's all I have to say tonight. We're in for up to 15 inches of snow this weekend. Call me crazy, but I'm pretty excited about it. I hope it's a big, wet snow so that we can go out and make a giant snowman family.
posted by Shelly Kang at 10:07 PM
3 Comments:
I love all the blankie pics! Enjoy the snow. Maybe you'll have a Calvin & Hobbes type picture to share with us next week.
I am glad you had some fun nights out, but I have been missing your posts! I love the juice lids "coins". Being a therapist, I love toys that work on motor and cognitive skills, but can be made at home. And I love the "fountain" of hair in Sophie's picture.
The blankie's looking soooo great!!! And, YAY FOR UUs!!!!
~ hb33, a big fat knittin' UU ~
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