[NOTE: Edited after original posting.]
So, which pattern do ya'll think would be a better use of my Kathmandu Hand-Picked:
Honestly, I have so much of the stuff (7 x 80 or 90 yards) that I could probably make BOTH!
A year and a half ago, I held my son in my arms as he died. We'll always remember. We'll never forget. The pain changes, but losing a child isn't something you ever "get over". Please check out his site.
Special smoochies to you today, Baby Paul....
We interrupt the regularly-scheduled Self-Portrait Tuesday to bring you a photo homage to hubby in celebration of his 39th birthday today. Let's all flood him with "Happy Birthday" wishes on his blog!
Did some swatching over the weekend for Noodles' sweater. The chenille that Jeannette wanted me to use was pretty fragile, so I tried it doubled - too fat (though I loved the look and felt more confident that it wasn't going to break that way). I tried it on various needles, but couldn't get the gauge right. Next step = finish the interminable multi-directional "larvae" spring scarf and try the size 7's.
It suddenly hit me on Saturday that Becky & Georgia's bday party was only a week away, and I hadn't started their presents yet. Uh, oh. Guess they won't each be getting a scaled-down Danica! Behold Becky's neckwarmer in progress. OK, it was originally supposed to be a scarf, but I made it too wide, so it didn't come out long enough. SOooo, now it's a neckwarmer. I'm going to seam it later today. This is actually good b/c Becky's pretty active, like Thing Two, so a dangly scarf wouldn't be the best idea. YES, it's half Fun Fur (the rest is Caron's Simply Soft Brites in Watermelon), but the kid's turning five. Five-year-olds LIKE this stuff.
Now that I've given it to her, I can post pics of Hobbes' scarf. Not the greatest, most creative, Knitty-esque pose, but it was a hasty "Oh! I need to get a picture of you in the scarf!" shot as they were getting ready to leave.
Here's the detail. Can you see the heart? She's kind of stretching it out so it shows better. A non-fuzzy yarn would have been more appropriate for this but:
Pattern is the Heart scarf from Knitty's 2004 Breast Cancer Awareness print issue. This is especially appropriate as in 2004, Hobbes did the Breast Cancer walk b/c her mom Jean had just been diagnosed with breast cancer. In 2005, she did the walk b/c Jean had recently died.
Happy birthday, Hobbes! Hope your hearts keep you warm there in Half Moon Bay!
Yesterday was Hobbes' 41st birthday, so today Hobbes, Ron & Ian, Jules, Bakari & Baby Kai all came over for a brunch feast. (Thanks AGAIN Uncle Mike for those sausages! We ate the last two packets of them today.)
Hubby's been having fun playing with the camera, learning how to use the manual settings, etc. He had the camera just a couple of inches away from Baby Kai's face when he took these pictures.
The happy family: Bakari, Jules & Baby Kai.
Hubby saves the day yet AGAIN! The computer has been driving us crazy lately. It would just spontaneously shut itself off for no apparent reason. We thought it was overheating, we wondered if it was a power issue (not such great wiring in our 62-year-old house). It had become really noisy and was driving hubby crazy. Crazy.
I, of course, wasn't terribly motivated to take it to CompUSA to get them to look at it, even though it was still well under warranty.
All that's left on ladder yarn scarf #2 for Thing One's teacher is the fringe. I meant to have it done today, but I haven't picked it up at all yet. I'll finish it tonight. May have to frog the scarf back a bit to have enough yarn for fringe, though. I kinda made this one longer than I meant to. Oops.
Next up is getting started on the zippered hoodie for Noodles.
Then, "training" for my stole, Olympia. I may actually...egads!...swatch the different patterns to figure out what side needles I need. I suspect that the $$ from scarf #2 for Mrs. R will go toward a pair of Addis for this project.
Oh, and another one of Thing Two's cats, Figaro, is having a birthday tomorrow morning, and she's asked for a hat for him. I think I can crank out something with some cheapy-do yarn (can you say "stashbuster"?).
Gave away a bunch of Red Heart to Thing Two's teacher, Miss Claudia, today. Trying to whittle down the stash a bit (I know, I know, I know), at least to get down to a minimum of cheapy-do stuff so I can bulk up on "the good stuff". I asked her if she ever needed yarn for their craft projects, and she said she often used "hair colors" -- black, brown, red, yellow -- so I gave her five skeins of Red Heart today.
I do hereby declare myself a member of the US Lace Knit Team for the Knitting Olympics.
Training will start very soon; I need to make sure that this plan of mine is going to work, need to figure out what needles to use, etc. I think I shall call my stole "Olympia".
