Erica’s Blog

PATTERN:  Baby kimono from Mason-Dixon Knitting. 

YARN:  Sugar & Cream, color Playground, 3 balls plus a partial ball from the lovely Lu (Grazie, Bella!)

NEEDLES:  Uh.  Um.  7’s?  I think.  Hey, I finished the knitting a few days ago, and you expect me to remember?

Pattern mods:

• CO 50 instead of 40, increasing up to 118 instead of 88.
• Continued the eyelets all the way down the front.
• Used crocheted chains instead of ribbon.

There are two things I’m disappointed with:

• I had to throw it in the dryer b/c she just wasn’t drying after her bath.  When I did, the color faded (it’s not as bright as these pictures make it look).  Feh!  I’ll take faded color over musty, mildewy, damp sweater, though.
• My seaming on the sleeves stank.  Musta gotten cocky after that raglan.  Also could have had something to do with my doing the increases via knitting on instead of backward loop cast-on.  May have made for a different edge.  I dunno…Naaaah, I think I just stink at seaming.  I hope there are no other knitters at the shower tomorrow.

OK, OK, you’re tired of seeing pictures of the blue raglan, but now it’s finally FINISHED FOR REAL.  Ends have been woven in, he had a bath, and he’s all wrapped up and ready to mail. 

Ah, the first day of summer…time to sleep in…have a jammie day…let them rot their brains by watching TV all morning…all chip in together to clean both Things’ rooms (big “spring cleaning”, washing even their quilts)…and have “Tea Party Lunch”:

[Add music by overly-made-up strange-looking band favored by middle school boys, music known in our house as, well, "penis music".]

Yupp, yesterday was the last day of school for Thing One.  I managed to avoid any responsibility for stuff related to the second grade’s barbecue/picnic on the grounds that I put on the end-of-year teacher luncheon sponsored by the PTA on Wednesday.  Lunch for approximately 50 women and one biker dude.  It turned out well.

Oh.  Right. Yesterday.  So, all 60 of the second-graders trooped up to a park to hang out for the last couple of hours of the day yesterday, along with a few parents, Thing Two, and me.  Here are some highlights (the rest is here).

Thing One with Mrs. R (she was there as teacher, not as Ben’s mom, so she was Mrs. R, not Lisa that day) and Mrs. C, respectively.

I cannot believe this kid is going into the third grade!  Good news on the final report card: She’s doing much better at math after all her hard work.  Yippee!  We saw the results of some of the standardized testing, and her reading level tested out at 5th grade, 8th month.  Last night, she fell asleep reading a Nancy Drew book sometime after 10:00.  Bwa ha ha!  Fruit don’t fall too far from the tree, do it, Nana?