To answer some of your comments…
1. Baxter is just fine and hopefully he is scarred enough to stay away from my curtains. It is one of my pet peeves--the dogs will lie under or on the curtains and get them all dirty. Poor Baxter is a few French fries short of a Happy Meal but we love him anyway. We call him our little Jessica Simpson.
2. Out of 20,000 yards of yarn, I do not have one single white ball in there. Ok, I lie…there is a half skein of white fluffy eyelash and one skein of a cream-colored wool. No way am I making a shrug from either. I just think I need white because it will go with everything.
I have been going over my numbers for the Vintage Pink Cardigan in a 36” based on some of the instructions Claudine gave me and I was only off by two stitches. Not bad for a neophyte who flunked Algebra! One good tip she gave me…if the numbers in the current pattern are even, mine should be too. I had a couple that didn’t match the pattern and I had to rework them (and remember how I came up with them in the first place). I’m still not getting this whole ease thing but maybe it will make sense to me once I am working on this.
In the process of doing the inventory this weekend I realized that I have a bunch of yarn that I used for baby stuff and have quite a bit left over. I think I might make up some baby stuff for me. I have already made one blanket but maybe if I move on to sweaters it will make the little critter come faster. I have some cream and gray shine & shine from Knit Picks, which would make a nice little sweater. I’m thinking a motif on the back with the gray. Definitely a cardigan. I don’t do pullovers for babies. That is one sure way to make them cry! Cotton would be perfect for any time of the year because even in the house, a baby will need a sweater as a layer but not one made for living in an igloo.
Lastly, I apologize for not having hyperlinks on yesterday’s post. I had hyperlinks in my word version but they didn’t copy to Blogger. Then, as I was preparing to put in the links, a warning came up telling me that there would be an outage at 4:00 PST. I looked at the clock and realized it was 2 minutes away! I am contemplating moving over to Typepad but DH isn’t convinced he wants to pay for it every month. We have a free blogging system through Mac Ilife but it is very plain and well, kind of ugly. Plus, no one would ever find me--I have to remind DH that his Mac world isn’t as large as he would like to believe.
2. Out of 20,000 yards of yarn, I do not have one single white ball in there. Ok, I lie…there is a half skein of white fluffy eyelash and one skein of a cream-colored wool. No way am I making a shrug from either. I just think I need white because it will go with everything.
I have been going over my numbers for the Vintage Pink Cardigan in a 36” based on some of the instructions Claudine gave me and I was only off by two stitches. Not bad for a neophyte who flunked Algebra! One good tip she gave me…if the numbers in the current pattern are even, mine should be too. I had a couple that didn’t match the pattern and I had to rework them (and remember how I came up with them in the first place). I’m still not getting this whole ease thing but maybe it will make sense to me once I am working on this.
In the process of doing the inventory this weekend I realized that I have a bunch of yarn that I used for baby stuff and have quite a bit left over. I think I might make up some baby stuff for me. I have already made one blanket but maybe if I move on to sweaters it will make the little critter come faster. I have some cream and gray shine & shine from Knit Picks, which would make a nice little sweater. I’m thinking a motif on the back with the gray. Definitely a cardigan. I don’t do pullovers for babies. That is one sure way to make them cry! Cotton would be perfect for any time of the year because even in the house, a baby will need a sweater as a layer but not one made for living in an igloo.
Lastly, I apologize for not having hyperlinks on yesterday’s post. I had hyperlinks in my word version but they didn’t copy to Blogger. Then, as I was preparing to put in the links, a warning came up telling me that there would be an outage at 4:00 PST. I looked at the clock and realized it was 2 minutes away! I am contemplating moving over to Typepad but DH isn’t convinced he wants to pay for it every month. We have a free blogging system through Mac Ilife but it is very plain and well, kind of ugly. Plus, no one would ever find me--I have to remind DH that his Mac world isn’t as large as he would like to believe.
posted by Kim @ 5:41 PM
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