Erica’s Blog

Founder’s Day program by the 2nd and 4th grade kids last week.  Very cute.  We were really proud of Thing Two, as she performed in not one, but TWO dances.

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 Yes, folks, the finishing frenzy has now become a finishing AND frogging frenzy.  Today, I frogged the “Hempen Fall Leaves” shawl.  Why?  Well, my reasons were threefold:

1. I felt insecure about the spot where the yarn broke.  I wasn’t confident that it wouldn’t stick out like a Republican in Berkeley.
2. I thought it would be better if I charted it out in advance instead of just making it up as I went along.  I *must* figure out how to convert this idea in my head into an actual shawl!
3. Hubby asked me to make him a couple of new coffee sleeves, but out of hemp this time instead of wool.  Considering that I initially purchased the hemp specifically for a particular project for him, how could I refuse?

Bobcat’s scarf is now 50% done.  Woot!!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I’m supposed to be finishing.  Phooey!  It was Tammy’s birthday on Sunday, and when she told me she preferred “earthy tones”, I knew THIS was the thing to make for her.  I’ll give it to her this Sunday.  I hope she likes it.

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Mom, guess what?  Lauren told us that one time when Eddie kissed Michelle on the mouth, he BURPED!  [Hilarious 7-year-old laughter ensues.]

The Things had a great time @ Poppa & Nana’s house this weekend.  As you can see here, everyone ganged up on Nana & persuaded her to go out to The Red Grape on Valentine’s Day…

 

Yes, I finished the first item up in the February Finishing Frenzy, this (oversized…yeah, on purpose, yeah, that’s the ticket) teddy bear sweater:

We interrupt the regularly scheduled Finishing Frenzy to bring you emergency knitting for the Things’ teachers for Valentine’s Day & their birthdays.  Pink scarf is for Ms. B, T2’s teacher, whose birthday was last week.  Red cowl is for Ms. T, T1’s teacher, whose birthday is Valentine’s Day.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled knitting already in progress.

…And then there’s this, too:

The purple (yes, it IS purple, but purple appears to be as hard to photograph as red is) is slated to become a sweater for ME, the cover sweater from this book my SIL gave me for Christmas.  Not sure yet what I’ll do with the cashmere.  It’s an odd sort of yarn - almost felted.  It will probably be a scarf of some type or a couple of hats.  I thought about making some fingerless mitts, but something as soft as cashmere wouldn’t hold up too well for something that would get lots of use.

Now that TNBT is done and out the door, I’ve decided to use the rest of February as a finishing frenzy time.  I have a couple of projects that I need to start - one already paid for, and one just promised - but I really need to get these various monkeys off my back. 

Which to do first?  I thought about it, and I decided to tackle this the way you tackle debt: start with the one closest to done (paid off), then work your way up from there.  I have no illusions about finishing all these in just over two weeks, however, if I can make a serious dent in the list by finishing three or more, then I can have a good conscience about starting the next items on my list.

Here are all the WIP’s I could find around the house (click for bigger and for captions):