Mommy Knits

New knitting goodness

The mail lady had to ring my door yesterday, I love when she has to do that because it means there is a package and I love packages!  And what you might ask was in this package yesterday?  Why it's half of my order from Knitpicks!  (Sidenote, I'm a huge believer in LYS and that if we don't support them they will go away but sometimes a girl just has to get what she wants and Knitpicks had it.)

       

Why yes that is a Jordana Paige Bag.  The one that I've been drooling over for months now and when I saw that my sister, my little sister had one I just couldn't resist anymore.  (She can't have cooler toys then me, she just can't).  I also got Scarf Style by Pam Allen.  I've been eyeing this one for months but it seemed silly to buy a scarf book.  I mean come on how hard is a scarf!  But I am really trying to make this the year of the knitted Christmas gifts and I needed some inspiration and ideas.  And it was on sale, I tell you it was kismet.

The rest of my order is yarn.  I bought enough Andean Silk to make the hourglass sweater from Last minute knitted Gifts in Bluebell and one extra skein in Cream to see if it will work for the Aran that DH wants me to make for him.  (For a guy who says that he doesn't care about clothes the man is really particular about the color and feel of the yarn for this project.)

I'm kind of glad that the yarn was backordered because I know I would want to drop everything and start the sweater (I even bought the needles for it already).  But there are alread a lot of projects on the needles and I need to knock some of them out before I sould start a sweater that I won't even be able to wear until late summer or early fall.  I started a list in the sidebar of projects on the needles and as I walk around my house I keep seeing new ones that aren't on the list yet.  I really could use a a good bout of finishitis right about now.

On the baby front, we found out last month that we are having another little girl!  I am so excited I love my son but girls are just so much more fun to dress and knit for!  The Bug is totally stoked and keeps lifting my shirt to "talk" to the baby.  She thinks that the baby won't hear her unless she lifts up my shirt, not a good thing in the grocery store check out line.  My due date didn't change so we're still expecting her on or about July 30th.  AAACK!  That only leaves me 4 months to finish all this stuff before I go into that dark place where nobody sleeps and knitting is something you use to do.

Socks, socks, socks!

Well I hope everyone had a great Easter.  We did, it was a pretty quiet affair as the church did the egg hunt last week so we went to church and while we were gone the god old Easter Bunny left the kids baskets.  After a little nap they were back up and we headed off to my parents for Easter Dinner.

You wanted to see them all dressed up right?(the Bug would not take off that hat till I pried it off her head!)

So on to the socks, I took this picture of the socks on Saturday night just before I started the second toe.

Sorry about the lighting it's been raining for two days straight.

Then yesterday I finished them but I threw them in the washer with a bit of wool wash so now they are in the drying cabinet.  So what does someone on a sock binge do but cast on a new sock last night.  Of course I did this at midnight, so I only have a few rounds of the ribbing done.  I should have some progress to report after the Knit Wits come over this afternoon.

We can try this again right?

Well I can try again, this has been a crazy year and so here I go again trying to blog about it.  The crazy thing is that I have been composing entries in my head almost daily but when it actually happens that I have two seconds put together that I could post my thoughts I either fall asleep of I knit.  And knitting is the point right? Well at least here it is.  My most recent obsession has become socks.  I know hasn't everyone already discovered them.  Well not me till last week and I'm almost done with my first pair.  I think that I was scared of the teeny tiny needles and the thread like yarn but really they go so fast and sock yarn is so addictive just one more stripe and then I'll go to bed really just one.  The other thing that finally spurred me into action was that I found Pricilla Gibson-Roberts Dream socks pattern at Interweave.  It's in the subscribers only section (Thank you DH).  I really like this pattern because I really don't like the look of socks made with a heel flap.  I know it's standard sock construction but I don't like it.  So when I found her short row heels (and toes but that's a different story) I decided to pull out the yarn and needles I had purchased in a moment of weakness at my LYS (like that never happens to you too).  They are almost done so maybe I'll post a picture later today right now I need to go assemble the kids Easter Baskets while they are both asleep.  Hopfully I'll be back is less then two months...