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The Semi-Lucy Bag is done! I say semi-lucy because the bag looks like a Lucy bag but I couldn't find my pattern so I really just kind of made it up as I went along. It turned out basically how I wanted it. Big, floopy, and ready to carry ballet/jazz/tap shoes and anything else my little dancers might need on their saturday morning trips to dance class.
I used Cascade 220 and slightly less than one full run through the washer to felt. Now I can move on.
Can you believe this, Berocco wrote a pattern so you can knit peeps.
My kids would say, "Ewwwww". Years ago we spent Thanksgiving with my cousin and her family. One day her husband and young daughter were walking around the cabin in New Mexico we were staying in and they saw a stray dog. When they came back into the cabin to report to us about it the little girl said, "Daddy made the dog go peep." She meant to say pee but we thought it was hilarious and have called it peep ever since. Both of my daughters tell me they need to go to the peep whenever they need to go to the bathroom so the first time they heard of peeps candy at Easter time they thought we were kidding. It's pretty funny, but maybe you have to be there.
I was thinking about showing off a progress pic of my Lucy-esque bag, but if I did all you would see is my washing machine. That's right, I finally finished all of the knitting on the endless knit stitch monster. I had to frog the longer handle once which was torture because I knew I was going to have to knit it all again, but now it is done and felting away in my machine. Yay!
Now to turn the toe on the techguy socks so I can start in on something new.
So we moved into our house a while back. I'm not going to say how long because it will make this sound even worse. Though we have been in the house for a while we haven't gotten things totally straightened out yet. I know, I know, I'm lazy. All of that is just to say that over the weekend I was unpacking a box that I had thought was just papers and things that we hadn't needed yet. Instead it was things from the built in book shelves in Riley (our former house).
For the most part, everything I have unpacked has been well wrapped and is in good shape. You wouldn't believe how much packing paper we have had to throw away. This box was wrapped pretty well too until I unwrapped this little box. It was well wrapped on the outside but it was full of things that weren't wrapped at all.
The craziest thing is that the things in this box are pretty much all the things we own (other than family pictures) that can't really be replaced. It isn't that these little trinkets cost so much, they don't. It also isn't that there aren't others like them in the world. It's just that these are fossils and rocks, and things like that are one of a kind.
All in all, the things in the box came out ok. I've put them in the new glass cabinet and they are enjoying being out to be seen. The only thing that didn't do well, was the little crinoid stem dinosaur.
I think it will superglue back together ok. I just need to sit down and do it.
Well now that you have read through all the broken moving stuff, we'll talk about yarn. Tomorrow or the next day I am going to post some yarn for sale and some yarn I want to give away to anyone who will take it. Check back.
...and when it's cold outside, I've got candy day!
My candy from the candy swap came today and it's wonderful. The best part isn't even the candy though, it's the card. Mary my swap buddy lives in Ohio and she bought me all kinds of neat local candies and sent me a card detailing where everything is from and the picture on the front of the card is from the park she drives through to get to the candy. I LOVE that. How fun.
So Mary has a knack for picking candy. She sent buckeyes, which you would have to if you are from Ohio. The thing is, Buster (my husband) loves buckeyes. Really really. She also sent chocolate eggs that are so pretty, to the girls. That means I get to keep the gorgeous box of little handmade chocolates all to myself. Yay for Mary!
I'll add a buckeye picture incase anyone hasn't seen one.
I'm working on my things for Project Spectrum and have even started something new.
I bought the Stitch It Kit and started right in learning how to embroider. My iron has yet to be uncovered from the mound of boxes I still need to unpack so I had to trace on the pattern instead of ironing it on as you are supposed to do. It was great fun anyway. I have also gotten nearly half way done with the bag I am making for Bug to carry her dance things in.
I'm looking over a four-leaf clover
That I overlooked before.
One leaf is sunshine, the second is rain,
Third is the roses that grow in the lane.
No need explaining, the one remaining
Is somebody I adore.
I'm looking over a four-leaf clover
That I overlooked before.
Each of my daughters has a song. It's the first song they heard me sing, minutes after they were born. It's the song they were rocked to sleep by, it's the symbol of who they are.
My Bitty, she is my lucky charm. My four leaf clover who brings me luck. That's her and that's her song.
Happy St. Patrick's Day.
Two days ago I went shopping. I had good reason, I needed to get candy for my CandySwappers Pal. I had to do a little hunting in order to find "regional" candy. Texas isn't exactly known for one kind of candy or another, but I did find good stuff.
While I was out I also bought new outside toys for the girls. Bug asked for new bath toys but I talked her into ribbons on sticks instead. They turned out to be a hit.
At the first place we went we got away with candy and toys only. Wait, no, we also bought a decorative bottle to put my dish soap in.
Our second stop yielded no candy, but plenty of other goodies. We got a royal blue t-shirt and paints so that Bug could have a spirit shirt to wear to school on Fridays, which is spirit day. They are the Bees so she wants to paint a bee on the shirt herself. We'll see how that goes. We also bought rhinstones to use with my new toy.
Yes, my new toy the Bedazzler. I'm going to go rhinestone crazy on Bit's clothes because I am hoping it will get the fashion girl to wear more of what she has. That child is HARD to please.
Does tha seem like enough shopping to you? Yeah, me neither. After that we picked up the little sister and went out for some bookstore shopping. We spent a good long time looking at books and reading to each other. I think we did pretty well only buying one book.
I love to cook, there is no doubt about that. There is also no doubt that the love of cooking is rubbing off on my kids. This book is full of recipes for kids to make. Now it is true that my 6 and 4 year old kids can't make these things without help, but they can get pretty close. With the recipes in this book they won't have to use anything sharp or the stove in order to make wonderful things in small quantities. I love that. Once we finish off the Nutella Cupcakes we made after our shopping spree we will start in on this book.
...but just about everything else in my house is.
I am participating in Project Spectrum but I haven't had the time to cast on anything for this month's colors, Red and Pink. Even without the project I am still constantly surrounded in these two colors. My kitchen is red, sometimes my hair is red, and everything my daughters touch is pink. I will get to the project soon that takes me down the correct color road, but until then, there is plenty of pink to be seen.
The nearly always pink clad duo of Sapphire and Wainy. That's Sapphire the Sassy Cat on the left. Yesterday we could not find her anywhere so that we could put her new outfit on her. Thankfully she did not get lost in the move and was dressed in her new Limited Too pink clothes this afternoon. Bug will be so happy to see her. On the right is Wain, Bit's bunny. Wainy goes with us everywhere, she is Bitty's best friend and that is all there is to it. Today she decided to stay comfy and wear her Hello Kitty PJs and slippers to school. She was a hit.
As you read above, I haven't started a spectrum project yet because I am in the middle of something. That something is a pair of socks, that I am litterally in the middle of, see...
No, your eyes do not deceive you, that is a nearly completed sock. All that is left is a little blocking and a duplicate stitch apple. Not too bad for a first success. Go me!
Last week I met up with Chris last week for a little birthday (hers, not mine) knitting, yarn shopping, and lunch. We had a great time. Such a great time that I came home with three balls of Rowan Cork. 
It was half price. Don't you love half price yarn? I love it so much that I went back on Saturday and bought more.
Also while I was at The Woolie Ewe I fell in love with a sample knit in the store. It was so squooshy and bright and yummy. You can see it here. So when I went back to get the very cheap Cork I also bought the even cheaper Touche'.
I will have that sweater, in lime green, but not until after something pink and red has been completed. First though, the other sock.
