A Sweater for Me

While I have promised myself that I will not begin work on this project until 2011... (please see previous goals).. that hasn't stopped me from commencing the planning and purchasing for this project. Every girl needs a sweater of her own.

The sweater I will be knitting is none other than Hey Teach, a Helene Rush pattern featured in Knitty in 2008.

If you are a member of Ravelry,  please please go view and drool over the many Hey Teach sweaters already worked up (1,872 to be exact).  There are oh so many, in so many different colors.. with short sleeves, and long sleeves, and no sleeves too!

I plan to make mine with 3/4 sleeves using the chart and sleeve instructions provided on the Stash N' Stitch blog.

I also picked up my special order Cascade Sierra Yarn in Moss from the local yarn hangout here in town.  Bless Julie and her buy one get one half price sale!  So now I wait for the new year... and it is possible that I will be picking up my needles at 12:01 to start this one!

Of Christmas Stockings and Bite Marks

I have decided on a pattern for Helen's stocking and have begun the process of crocheting the motifs.  The pattern is Starflower Hexagon a free Ravelry download.  With four colors in each motif, that means 8 ends to sew-in  per hexagon.  Oh! How I hate sewing in ends!!  But, I do love this pattern and think that it is going to make a beautiful stocking.

We are at home this morning, I think Helen has a sinus infection and to top it all off she was bit at daycare yesterday - on the cheek!  So, we have an appointment with our pediatrician to hopefully sort things out.  

Megan's Morning Mitts

I know that I seem to be posting a lot.  This is very obvious as our home falls into a new state of disrepair.   Surprisingly, even though I have two weeks worth of laundry built up, a very dirty kitchen floor, a bathtub that needs scrubbing, and a sourdough starter screaming to be made into bread... I am just not too worried about it.  I'll just take it one task at a time (and try to keep an eye on Helen in the mean time- I already had to fish three board game pieces out of her mouth this morning).  I am not the perfect homemaker.  I just don't have time to be... sufficient is going to have to suffice for now.

In happier news, I have completed the Morning Mitts I started for Megan last February.  I love these mittens - especially since you can wear them and type at the same time - a blogging knitter must have designed them!


These mitts are great for beginning knitter who has the knit/purl down because they teach M1L/M1R, picking up stitches, provisional cast on, and how to use a stitch holder all in one compact little package - and with a second mitten built right in to reinforce what you just learned!


Now back to that pile of laundry for me...