The Heathen Housewife

I have a nice mix of cute kid pictures (so many cute things happening this week!) and knitting and dyeing update pics as well – something for everyone likely to hang out around here!

We went to the fancy grocery store the other day – the one with the carpeted aisles where there is always a truck cart waiting for the girls to ride in. Actually, this was Sophie’s first time riding in the truck part of the cart, and they had a blast! All through the store, other shoppers saw them and their faces just lit up.

Later that day, Sophie went down for a nap and Julie busied herself with the fish game – I think she was actually pretending to feed the fish.

I took the opportunity to graft the crotch of Sophie’s leggings. They’re still nowhere near done (actually, I’ve had to rip out the same five rows twice now), but I wanted to go ahead and get rid of the dangling scrap yarn holding the live stitches.

Before:

On the needles ready to graft:

After:

You can see in this picture what the gusset looks like. I closed up the holes as I wove in the ends later, and I think they’re pretty tight. I hope.

This is what Sophie looks like at the end of many meals. She seems to love rubbing food in her hair. She’s also been chewing on her fingers like crazy – those canine teeth are coming in again.

Because I firmly believe in setting a good example for my girls early on…

Um, at least she’s reading? We were shopping at the much-less-posh grocery store later in the week, and I caved in and bought a trashy magazine. I think there was a picture of a puppy in one of the advertisements, and that’s what she was looking at.

Even though I really need to be preparing and organizing for that trip next week, I’ve been playing with my giant box of yarn instead. These skeins were an attempt to satisfy a certain Packers fan in our midst. They are all the same except for the second blob from the left, which is a bit brighter. What do you think, Jaci? Which colorway is closer?

A closeup of the two colorways.

This picture is exactly what it looks like “I have goggles, Mama!”

Um, yeah, so there’s some more yarn in the dye pot. Have I mentioned that this many-colored self-striping is a major pain in the ass? Well, it is.

I reskeined that cheesehead yarn this afternoon. It sure looks pretty all mixed up like that. Again, which version to you want, Jaci?

Here’s my finished pile so far…the brown is coffee-dyed yarn, and it smells SO good.

This morning I took my Canadian friend out for a surprise. She’s really into stationary, so we went to Uptown and checked out a couple of paper stores. I took this picture in Papergami (with permission). Their selection of washi paper was so beautiful all lined up along the wall. They had lots of other fun trinkets, including a red heart-shaped tape measure that I bought but did not take a picture of.

We also visited Paper Source, which was also fun, but a bit more of the chain-store experience. And Starbucks. Because it was right there across the street and we needed a good sit-down kid-free chat.

There is so much to do this week – cooking, packing, last minute shopping…

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