Erica’s Blog

This is the project I started the last night in TX, which I worked on from TX to FL (well, part of the way).

When I got some sense and realized I didn’t have nearly enough of the denim color to do the whole sweater, I started tossing in an occasional row of white.  I think it looks OK.  I’m hoping that the Peaches & Creme I got today will go blend in all right.  What do you think?

Oh, and this is for Jubal & Nichole’s baby boy, due October 30th.  I’ll probably make something else kind of funky (hemp yarn?), but this is for starters.

OK, so here’s Shawna’s sweater, which I finished knitting while we were in TX, but didn’t weave in the ends yet.

Here’s my dilemma:

I tried to change the neck and, well, it just didn’t work.  The question is, what do I do?  I’m thinking I should (sigh) frog back an inch and a half or two and just do a roll-neck like the pattern calls for and like I did on Mansour’s sweater.  What do ya’ll think?

Grandma, Things, and I went to Wally World & the craft store today.  Look what followed me home from Wally World:

Yupp, Peaches & Creme — one-pound cones, even!  Good thing I don’t have a Wally World near me at home.  Well, maybe.  I found out yesterday that our friends Luis & Marianella are expecting “a little surprise from heaven” in about five months.  BIG surprise, as their sons are in middle school & high school.  They’re hoping for a girl this time.  I’m thinking the yellow & white variegated would make a cute Baby Kimono or other baby item for their new addition.

Now, here’s the question:

Are these two a close enough match to use them together?  I didn’t have enough of the Sugar & Cream to do the whole sweater, and I thought this would match.  What do you think?

Got up early today — 9:20 a.m.    Things watched kid shows all morning (the joys of expanded cable).  Hubby left to play 18 holes.  Grandma & Grandpa came home early b/c Grandpa’s ear infection was making him too dizzy to stand up.  Grandma, Things & I spent time in the pool.  I gave up earliest.  Later, when Hubby came home, he joined them.  The Things spent so much time out there, they had to get two layers of sunscreen.  Eventually, made Thing One put on a t-shirt over her bathing suit b/c her shoulders were just too bad off. 

Filet mignon, baked taters w/trimmings, salad, veggies, and Grandma’s famous sugar-free jello mixed with whipped cream for dessert.  I asked her about the sugar-free pudding yesterday that tasted too good to be true, and it was.  She took the sugar-free, fat-free pudding and made it with whipping cream instead of non-fat milk.  Yikes!  Why, you say?  One word:  Atkins.  Yupp.  Apparently — and this makes NO sense to me at all — whipping cream has no carbs, but non-fat milk does.  Makes NO sense.  Why would taking AWAY fat and cream ADD carbs?  I don’t get it (sorry, Mrs. R; I know those words are forbidden in the classroom).  Where DO we agree?  (Insert 1940’s or 1950’s music) Drinkin’ rum and Coca-Cola (hat-tip to Knitting Magic Girl for the info that it’s only 2 Points).

Today’s pictures here.  Tomorrow…maybe the beach.  Maybe not.  Thanks to Andy, Hubby and I have a hot tip on a fabulous sushi place not far away that we need to check out this weekend.  (Aside to Andy:  Hubby and I may visit your “alma mater” on Sunday.  Whaddayathink?   You vote yes or no?)