I am overwhelmed at the response to my coffee sleeves on etsy. They are selling like hot cakes! I listed my last one yesterday. All of the others have sold out and I just finished up a custom order for three. I’ll be making more this weekend. I’m glad I went out and stocked up on sweaters last weekend. Thank you to everyone who has purchased one!
Seriously! Is she my Mirabella? She’s so tiny! Her hair is so straight and dark!
This is another photo from my cell phone. It was taken in February 2007. It’s hard to believe that this is the same little girl who is sitting next to me at the kitchen table “doing her crossword.”
This growing up stuff is happening way too fast!
I wasn’t sure what this book was all about except that it had a lot of cake recipes. I’m not a big fan of cake. I’m more of a pie person, myself. So I didn’t go into it thinking I would like it too much. Boy was I wrong!
I think I might try some of the cake recipes after all. The Oatmeal Stout Cake sounds awesome, as do the carrot and sweet potato cakes. I’d also like to try the Lemon Curd. Hmmm… maybe I’m not as much of a pie person as I thought!
I was updating my ravelry projects last night and realized I never blogged about one of my biggest projects: my parents’ afghan! It’s a pattern from Stitch ‘N Bitch called the Big Bad Baby Blanket, except mine is twice as big.
This was another project that took a long time to complete, but not as long as M’s blanket! I’ve decided that any future blankets have to be knit in pieces and seamed up at the end. Once I get half way through them, they are just too big to take to knitting group, the car, the coffee shop, etc. When my knitting isn’t portable, it winds up in a bag in the closet.
I used Mission Falls wool and loved how it knit up. It’s very soft and washed great. I got unlucky with knots, though, but I guess if you go through 32 balls of yarn, you’re bound to encounter some knots, right?
I’ve been squirreling away skeins of Manos del Uruguay wool for a blanket for me. I’m not ready to start another blanket yet, but I’m considering Mitered Squares or Lizard Ridge. Any other suggestions for me?
This weekend I accidentally figured out how to download photos from my phone. I say accidentally because I was having trouble with my camera cable and while checking “connected devices” I saw my phone.
I don’t have a very fancy phone, so the photos aren’t that great. They remind me that spring is on the way, though. I’m pretty sure I took these last April while T was away at Driver Education School.
Oh, and about the camera cable. I wasn’t plugging it in properly. Doh! All is well.
There are lots of reasons why this blanket took so long to complete. When I was pregnant, most of the time I was too tired to knit. Plus, my wrists hurt from wearing sea bands to help with the nausea. Then, when M was born, well, you know how it can be with a newborn.
The blanket got tucked away in the closet for awhile. I had terrible bouts of startitis. My projects were scattered all over the place. I knit a lot of socks. I knit a hat and mittens for M. I knit squares for charity blankets. I knit an afghan for my parents. I discovered sewing.
Then I found the coolest fabric. It was the perfect colors for the back of the blanket and M loves monkeys—especially Curious George. I ordered it instantly and made a commitment to finishing the blanket. No other knitting would come first.
It’s much bigger than I had originally planned, but M is a lot bigger now. What was once a baby blanket is now a toddler blanket. Maybe I thought that by not finishing this blanket I could keep M from growing up so fast. I’m glad I got it finished before she went to college. That would have required a lot more yarn.
