tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102478412012-01-27T10:34:14.377-08:00Trying to get some knitting done with my two little guys.Knittymamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08837846276017661188noreply@blogger.comBlogger1551100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10247841.post-75213774685676298772007-08-19T05:39:00.000-07:002007-08-19T05:44:27.840-07:00

So I popped back over here to continue to do some updates to the new blog that I've forgotten about, and when I clicked on Bloglines, I saw there are still 40 subscriptions left over here. Glad to see I'm not the only procrastinator:-)Anyway, just in case you missed it, I'm over at the new blog these days.

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I'm over here.Blogger has served me well these last couple of years. It has helped me get a good start in the world of knitblogs and let me get to know all of you so well! But, I've decided now's the time to take the next step in blogging and make Knittymama.com official! I hope you decide to join me over there as I'm looking forward to this next step in my blogging journey. I'm hoping to keep

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I am really starting to dislike my mailman. First, he sort of forgot to let me know he was trying to deliver a package from Valkyrie Knit This for the GPA craft fair, and it was nearly returned and got to me two weeks late. Now, it turns out he gave my last SP9 package to the wrong person, who was luckily not a knitter and sent it back to my pal. He gives me the wrong mail at least every couple

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Thanks to a nice weekend back at my parents, the raglan is done and I'm happy to say it is awesome!!! But, it's still damp so no pictures yet. I should be able to get some tomorrow and then I can show it off.Glad everyone liked my collection of stuff in the last post. The needle roll? Let's just say there will be more to come with a certain new blog unveiling next week, as soon as I get my act

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Oh yes, projects.But first, I know I didn't get a chance to say thanks to all of you who left me such nice get well messages. I went from feeling a little better Monday night, to even better Tuesday, to thinking I was surely going to die of a head explosion yesterday. I did absolutely no knitting for the last two days and went to bed early. Very rare for a busy body like me. Usually I'm more of

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So two weeks ago I came down with a little cold, which has since turned into some sort of ranging sinus infection. It kept teasing me. I'd feel better one day then worse the next. I finally decided this morning that work was just not going to happen and I needed to go to the doctor today. This stinks, as now I've missed my Monday music students two weeks in a row. Not cool when I only see them

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So it's a little late, this snowstorm, as I was already starting to look forward to my tulips. But I'll still gladly take a good snowstorm, even in March.On Thursday, Little Man decided that he and Knittybaby needed to sit back and watch the storm start up.After two days of snow, this is what we awoke to this morning:My ever faithful mailman showed up Thursday night around seven (he's usually

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Yeah, our Valentine's decorations are a little bit late. But, I'm pleased that I stuck it out and finished this little garland up.The lighting wasn't so hot and I had a hard time getting a good shot. But they look beautiful hanging by the window and I'll leave them up until Easter, to add a bit of color to the house. Lately I'm wishing for the house to be filled with color. It feels so blah

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I entered the playroom to clean up tonight to find this:Upon closer inspection I found this: (You might want to cover your eyes if you're sensitive)CUT!!!!The weapon:An oh so cute and very tempting flower cutter.More grisly evidence:And more:Multiple cuttings!!The main suspect unfortunately was asleep at the time of my discovery so I was unable to question him. However, my instincts suspect this

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Looks a little more like it could possibly turn into a bear, doesn't it? As it is for new knitters, it's all about the tension. I'm getting better but this bear will certainly be bulletproof.Little Man considers himself to be Bob Ross. Seriously. He watches him after Mr. Rodgers every Thursday. I'm not quite sure how I feel about this. Unfortunately, Little Man is unable to grow the required 'fro

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Take one first birthday just a month away. Add a cute amigurumi toy needed for that birthday. Do one and a half hours of intense crochet.Get this???? (That's a bear butt, if you're wondering)My crochet experience is limited to trapezoids that were meant to be squares. Crochet is in my genes, I should be able to do this. I can read directions. So why is it so freakin' hard???

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So we were watching Motherland Afghanistan last night, a documentary in which an Agfhani doctor returned to Afghanistan to train doctors in a womans' hospital in Kabul (named the Laura Bush Maternity Ward). Nearly one in seven Afghani women die in childbirth. That fact alone blew my mind, but this next part was what really made my head spin.Knittybaby was under the weather, and I had left to

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Am I the only knitter in the Twin Cities not here this weekend?I prefer to avoid the Wasteland, I mean the Mall of America, at all costs. The Skeptic will only go if he's been tricked by well meaning relatives who think "you can't come to the Twin Cities and not go!" (Yes you can. It's a mall. It's big. It's loud. It has a roller coaster in the middle. That's it.) I will only go when I need a

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Oh my gosh, it's a nearly completed pair of socks!A better view of the colorway:I was up to the heel on sock one Tuesday night. The Skeptic's aunt passed away so we drove back to Wisconsin for the funeral. Since the boys were too little to go I just stayed with them at home all day and hunkered down, out of the cold. It's amazing what knitting you get done with two happy boys and a house you

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Clever titles simple aren't here today, so let's just get to the business, shall we?Eunny Jang's Anemoi mittens:Yarn: New England Shetland by Harrisville DesignsNeedles: size one double points from KnitpicksGuage: anywhere between 8-9 stitches per inch depending on where I measured. This was my first real fair isle project, after all!Started: December 26, 2006Finished: February 4, 2007Notes:

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Packages: I am amazed at all this goodness!Doublepoints, fabric, chocolates, tea, a notepad, soap, a delicates washbag, two lovely patterns, a button, a gorgeous hankie with crocheted edging that I just want to carry around all day...I hope I'm not forgetting anything because there was so much!!!And of course, yarn. Some of the most lovely stuff I have ever come across from Zen String. It is

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Find an old, beat up child's table that's too rough to use. Get the baby to sleep.Grab a pile of paper in your three year old's favorite color and grab some scissors and a cutting mat. And your three year old.Abandon all dreams of neat, geometrical shapes when you remember your three year old can't cut straight. Have fun anyway, because he thinks it's the best thing ever and is cutting with wild

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I think what amazes me the most about having children are the sudden changes. For the longest time, they seem to stay the same: same games, ideas, routines, even the pants that they wear. Then all of a sudden, you wake up one morning and the pants are three inches too short and it's a totally different child standing in front of you.We've had these giant blocks now for about two years and they

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This is what I dropped off at the GPA-MN craft fair on Saturday:Dropped stich scarves by me:Lovely hats and a dishcloth set from Limedragon (thanks for the chocolate!:-) A super cute bib from Chris (do you think Chaos showed up to buy it?)Hand sewn collars from Splatgirl. Aren't they gorgeous? Organizers were seriously fighting over who was hoping to get to buy one of these!Thank you so very much

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Laundry DetergentYou will need:2-3 T essential oil (orange and lavendar are my favorites)1/4 cup green clay powder12 cups baking soda13 cups boraxI buy the essesntial oils and green clay powder at my coop. If you don't have a local natural foods shop check out Frontier.Mix the oil and green clay powder thoroughly together in a bucket. Then, add a few cups of borax and baking soda at a time,

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How incredibly cute is this package? I love bags, and this one is the absolute perfect size for a small project. Look at the little notions bag! Cute.Even cuter? The yarn cutter. I've always wanted one of these and it's adorable. And the row counter bracelet? Love it! I need one of these badly. (Note to self, hide from Little Man)But there's more! Sock yarn! And roving!! The colors are gorgeous;

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I've barely gotten anything done this week. I had my first "Down and Dirty Pattern Drafting" class at the Textile Center and managed to make myself a basic skirt pattern. Next week we make a bodice and the final week we do fittings and tweak the patterns. The teacher is great and it's nice to have a whole three hours of worktime. The only bummer is that there is no actual sewing done in the class

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The last few days have been a huge blur and although I had pretty much planned this whole post out in my head while putting Knittybaby to sleep, I've completly forgot how it logically seemed to go together. I've had one of those evenings where Little Man was asleep by 7 and Knittybaby was asleep on my lap by 7:15. I thought I was home free, but as I was carrying him to bed he totally re-perked.

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So apparently it's De-Lurking Week, and I've been excited to see so many readers commenting this week who haven't commented before. It's been so nice to visit your blogs and know who more of you are. I absolutely love this little knitting/crafting community we've got going here. I was thinking the other day that if it wasn't for bloggers, I would most likely still be knitting garter stitch hats

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Now I know why people love sewing.It's a little crooked. The thread's a little blobby in some places.Under three hours and this puppy was done. And I didn't even know what I was doing. I'll still always be Knittymama first, but dang if that wasn't a fast project!

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I was reading All Buttoned Up today and was inspired by her messiness and well, normalcy. I've been feeling in a funk lately about the perpetual state of mess in our house, torn between just wanting so say the hell with everyone else...no one plays, paints, knits, fixes, putters, or relaxes until this place is clean and organized, OR, realizing that I'm a mom with two little boys and while some

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So I have found my colorwork mojo. After much experimentation I finally got my groove back, knitting like this:Both colors held in my usual hand. The green I knit just like I usually do, wrapping the yarn around my finger. I had been knitting both colors that way, but that was what was slowing me down; the yarns kept sticking together and when I'd lift up the red the green would come right along

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Ha! You thought you were going to see some yarn, didn't you? Because tonight is Monday, and I had declared Mondays to be spinning night. I had good intentions when I got home from work, but here's what happened:Skeptic going to work late+TV obsessed three year old+baby who doesn't realize it's bedtime+exhausted mama who stayed up too late every night over vacation and went back to work today=NO

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Knittybaby had another visit with his cardiologist yesterday. I was pretty nervous about it, as lately his heart condition has sort of slipped into the back of my mind. On a day to day basis there's nothing much to think about. It's more the long term that is serious and the matter of when he will be having surgery. When we first saw the cardiologist in June, it was looking like the

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By now, most of you have met Gracie, our adopted retired racer. We adpoted her after a rough racing career when she was just about four years old. It's been a rough transition for her. She was so afraid and introverted (we guess because of the way she was treated) that she wouldn't sleep or relax anywhere other than her kennel for about two years. Through lots of love and hard work, she's gotten

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We got snow on New Year's Eve and it's such a relief to have such beautiful weather. I absolutely love Winter. I love the starkness of it all, especially when out in the country. In the city however, winter loses some of its power and tends to just get drabby and dirty looking. The snow cleans it all up and everything is beautiful again.The Skeptic and Little Man have been enjoying the weather.

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I can hardly believe how fast this year has flown by. Last time at this year, I was on bedrest, cranking out the baby knits and hoping all those early contractions would slow down so I could just get up. They did, thankfully; I was able to get back to normal and Knittybaby hung in there until just a few days before his due date in March.I'm actually pretty amazed at how much I managed to knit

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Christmas was lovely...Little Man was thrilled, Knittybaby was teething yet thrilled nontheless, and Molly the cat only hissed at me once in five days:We had such a nice visit with my parents, grandparents, and brother, and Knittybaby's first Christmas was a wonderful day! The only downer was that some incredibly nasty person stole my brother's I-Pod and laptop out of his car on Saturday night.

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This is making it hard to stay motivated:Rain and mud in Minnesota three days before Christmas is just wrong. I've got gingerbread men and fudge to make, laundry to do and a house to clean. Plus gifts to wrap after the boys are asleep tonight. A little snow would give a girl some motivation, you know?Now I have a stir-crazy three year old and teething baby. (He's nine months today, by the way.

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Most of you, like myself, are feeling a bit frazzled right now. We've got just a week until Christmas Eve. Even if, like me, you chose to not to try and knit every present to save some of your sanity, there are still cards to address, cookies to bake, gifts to buy (don't forget those small businesses!), clothes to pack, houses to clean....I could go on forever with all the preparation we get

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The boy's Christmas sweaters still are not blocked. I was just about to do it this afternoon when I decided to give it a second try with Little Man. Here's how it went:KM: Can you try your sweater on one more time for Mommy?LM:(screaming and running away) NO NO NO NO NO!KM: Can you just tell me what's wrong with it?LM: It's too furry!KM: What's that supposed to mean? It's not furry.LM: It's too

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First, the good....Although I shouldn't just say good, I should say incredibly generous and absolutely wonderful!!My coffeeswap partner, Lia, sent me an incredible package! (Notice those little fingers getting in there?)Look at all the amazing stuff she sent! I am truly a spoiled girl.See my new handknit coffee holder? The crazy thing is just the day before I was thinking of how much I could use

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It's taken nearly a week, but I finally feel like we've decorated. Usually the first Sunday in December is decorating day for us and although we started on Sunday, it took me all week just to get to this point, and I'm even keeping it simple this year.It's hard to tell in this shot, but notice the lack of decorations on the tree? I have a ton of beautiful ornaments. Many are antiques and others

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First, I took a trip to Borealis and left with these beauties:Four skeins of Atacama and a skein of Lucy Neatby's fingering weight yarn. Once again I'm stuck taking evening pictures so the colors just don't look as vivid as they do in real life. I love Lucy Neatby's yarns. I really think the colors are incredible and are a nice change of pace from what I usually see in handpainted yarns in the

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I wanted to take pictures of all the lovely yarn that came home with me this weekend, but Knittybaby is in one of his "I will only sleep on your lap" moods which means all the goodies are out of reach. So I'll give you the verbal now and a heap of photos in a day or two.We made it to No-Coast Craftorama on Saturday with my Urban Farmgirl pals. Knittybaby had to join me after only an hour on my

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Gee, do you think everyone who's made these used the same title on their blog when they finished these babies?Details (terribly incomplete due to the sleeping baby on my lap):Yarn: Mission Falls 1824 in rust and Knitpicks alpaca/silk in blueNeedles: size 7Guage: um, yeah, I got itPattern: Fetching on KnittyIssues: Now that I finally made them, it's cold enough that I really need mittens instead."

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Hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving. Ours was a nice trip out of the city back to the Skeptic's family farm. I often forget how nice the quiet is out there.I returned to some wonderful packages!First, Chris at Stumbling Over Chaos sent me the best package as a thanks for doing the coffee swap: a sweet note, cute tape measure (which I was in major need of!) and a kickin' coffee themed CD mix.

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...and I mean no one, gets Thanksgiving until the laundry is washed, folded, and put away. Seriously.Have a wonderful Thanksgiving everyone!!! (It's almost put away now. I'm feeling more festive by the minute:-)

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Or at least he looks like he just did. My poor guy, in his eagerness to go places, took a major digger into a pile of Leggos today. Face first. So between his scraped up nose, and the fact that he has a cold, which makes his eyes all red and puffy, he looks like he just got finished filming "Rocky: The Early Days." Poor guy.I've decided that even though Little Man loves them, Leggos are evil. No

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A few changes around here:First, if you subscribe through Bloglines, you'll notice that you are now seeing just the first few lines of this post rather than the entire post (that is, if I made the correct changes). I made this change because of the whole Bitacle mess Chris brought up the other week. Now, when I checked my blog on Bitacle it was credited to me and there was no advertising (recent

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We constantly battle the toy game in this family. First of all, we have on old, not so big house. This means we do not have a large playroom in the basement that we can fill up with whatever toys should come our way; I'm not sure we would want that anyway. We try hard to keep the toys in our house to a manageable amount, and those we have we try to keep high quality: no plastic, (except Legos),

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QUESTIONS1. Whole bean or ground? Whole bean2. Fully-loaded or decaf? I probably should mix in some decaf since caffiene keeps me up more these days than it used to, but I still love it fully loaded. Decaf just never tastes the same3. Regular or flavored? Definitely regular. I used to like flavors like hazelnut or vanilla, but my MIL is on a flavored coffee kick, and since that last batch of

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So Knittybaby is on the move. My peaceful existance (did I realy just say "peaceful?") is over. No longer can I just clear a little area on the floor and plop him down. And no matter how hard I try to contain it, Little Man's little stuff is everywhere. I think every other word out of my mouth is, "Crap, get that! It's a CHOKING HAZARD!!!!" as Knittybaby does his beast to devour paper, plant

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Pattern: Fiber Trends Mt. Hood SocksYarn: Mieleweit Fun and Stripes (color?) 80%wool/ 20% nylonNeedles: Blue Sky Alpacas, size 1 (more on these later)Notes: I loved this pattern. Easy to memorize, worked great with the stripes. Not sure I'm too crazy about this yarn. The colors are wonderful and much more vibrant than the pictures show (why can't I get good pictures? The green looks yellow in

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I really appreciate all the kinds words about Gracie's health and our anniversary. I really wish Blogger was set up so I could e-mail every single one of you. I often think of switching to another blog program just for that reason. But I do appreciate every comment that each one of you leaves, very, very much!Gracie is on the way to good health. It looks like IBS is the culprit. She is on three

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Nine years ago today, the Skeptic and I made our vows to one another in front of our dearest friends and family. I keep thinking to myself, "Nine years, dang, that's a long time!" Even longer, it's been thirteen years now that we've been together, since I was an uppity nineteen year old college girl and he was the shy boy in my piano class who never paid any attention to the professor.The Skeptic

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Literally.I love this dog. But Gracie, shall we say, has had some intestinal issues this past year that results in some unpleasant surprises in the morning. She is much too ladylike to do something like bark and whine when she needs emergency use of the facilities in the middle of the night. She knows we needs our sleep, so she politely poops on the carpet, or by the back door, or on our shoes.

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So here's the link to the new Coffee Swap blog! (It isn't the loveliest button, I know, but dang, if Photoshop is not just the tiniest bit confusing!) I picked up Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitters Almanac at the library today so I can get going on Zimmermania. I'm going to make hats (Gnomy) for the boys out of the Panache I got from Cecily. Not only was she a brilliant knitter, but I forgot how

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Okay, so I think the Knitter's Coffee Swap is going to be a go! I'm going to try to get it organized and open sign ups this week. I've decided that since I've never done a swap before, I'd better get in touch with a couple of other hostesses so I don't leave anything out.But, I'd also love to hear your ideas too. What do you like in a swap? Don't like? Suggestions for this swap? All I know right

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Look what arrived!!!My Knitflix package was on my doorstep yesterday. A very welcome distraction for a challenging afternoon. My swap partner, Cecily, did an awesome job of putting together a package!Mostly Martha couldn't be a more perfect movie: A German flick that involves food and romance. Can't beat that! I'll be watching it this weekend, enjoying my yummy treats and some incredible yarn.

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I found it interesting how many of you have your own skeptics! Could it be a knitter thing?Chris asked what his original nickname was going to be. I had though Mr. DIY would be funny. Partly because he is a total do-it-yourself kind of guy, to the extreme. How extreme? When we bought our house, we had a small leak. Did we call a roofer? Nope, The Skeptic went right up there, ripped off about 6

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The SkepticHe picked it himself. I had actually thought of a different nickname. When I told him I had one picked out he said, "Is it the Skeptic?" When he said it I realized that is actually the perfect name for him, much better than the lame one I had though of. Why, you ask?Main Entry: skep·ti·cism Pronunciation: 'skep-t&-"si-z&mFunction: noun1 : an attitude of doubt or a disposition to

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It's ended up being a busy work weekend for my husband, so I thought maybe, since Little Man thinks pirates are cool and treasure hunts are fun, that the boys and I could treasure hunt together. We'd make a weekend of it, driving around, enjoying the fall colors, stopping at parks for play and picnic breaks...nothing but fun, right? Let's just call this another delusional moment. After three

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Here's my first official Socktoberfest post. I'll get to the questions this weekend, but I did make progress on the Mountain Peaks sock:See the heel? It's on the way!On to mothering.....It seems that a lot of time in our house lately is either spent dealing with three year old drama and tantrums, or dealing with sleep. And although three year olds are naturally prone to drama and tantrums (it

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So I've seen Random Wednesdays, WIP Fridays... how about Delusional Saturdays? Because I laughed as I read your comments then went back and re-read my post. That list is what happens when Knittybaby falls asleep in my lap and I start thinking and typing, and thinking and typing. Totally delusional thinking, because the reality is that we also have fingerpainting to do, stories to make up,

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Thanks for all your nice comments on the shawl and wishes of health for my Grandfather. Pops is doing much better and home with my Grandmother. We are pretty much rested up from our big weekend and I'm a bit mixed up knitwise. It feels so, so good to finish up a big project, but then there is that misdirected feeling when you're just not sure what to do next. Where am I anyway?I'm about six

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Finished!!!!Yes, it was done on time for the baptism:Yes, he is wearing a handknit sweater and booties, courtesy of our dear Gomme (my Grandma).Yes, Knittybaby is also sucking on the ribbon. More on that issue later.A close-up:Another close-up:Details:The Baby Heirloom Silk Shawl, by Erika Knight in "Knitting for Two."Yarn: Rowan 4 PlyGuage: I never checked. (It's a blanket. Yes, I know I'm bad.

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How embarassing... all these new visitors from the Harlot's Eau Claire post, and I'm talking about clean underwear! I promise, we are not quite that disfunctional over here. Knittybaby turns six months today, and Little Man is just about three and a half now. As I like to say around here, we have been adjusting. I like to think that we are adjusted now, which is why I finally decided it was time

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Okay, maybe it's not an invasion yet, I'm not sure what it is, I only know this fact: I found a sock with a very suspicious looking hole in it on Saturday. A sock that was callously left with it's mate and another pair on my closet floor all summer long, because as you faithful readers know, eating and clean underwear have been the major household goals since Knittybaby has joined our family.

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You know how sometimes you have one of those mornings where you really need just twenty minutes to sit and drink your coffee in a quiet living room, but instead everyone wakes up right away? And your three year old absolutely must play Jay-Jay the Jet Plane with you and your baby has a cold so instead of peacefully nursing he just gets all ticked off because his nose is all plugged up, and your

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I can't believe it's taken me this long to get this post up! (I've been too busy reading everyone else's recap of the big event!)I dropped LittleMan off at my brother's house midday for an afternoon of football and hanging out with the uncle. Catherine picked me up, and we were off to Eau Claire! We had a nice drive there and Knittybaby graciously slept the whole way.I was excited to see how many

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Thanks for all the kind words about my back to work struggles. Knitters are so good at that! I'm feeling better...these last few days off have been good, plus I braved IKEA with both boys on my own today and it was actually quite a pleasant outing. Those toys will be organized yet!Here is a shot of the lovlies my SP8 Christine sent me. Thanks again Christine, you were an awesome pal and I really

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Thanks for all the back to school well-wishes! I made it through my first "week" and have decided I'll definitely be liking elementary school. It's the schedule that is gonna kill us. Today it was me getting up at 5:15, to work by 7, done by 11, then home so Mr. No-Name can get to work, then the library, shopping, cooking, bathtime, dishes, bedtime....I can't believe I've done all this in one day

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Well, we've made it through staff development week. I had to go in every day except today for staff development, open house, and getting my classroom ready. For the most part I'm ready to go for Tuesday, just a little nervous about the age adjustment. I can handle a room full of ornery, hormonal teenagers with my eyes closed. But a room full of kindergarteners? Let's just say it's going to be

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...and so little time! Here goes, many posts that should have been longer and seperated all now crammed into one:1. The TC Knit picnic on Sunday was a blast! The Husband With No Nickname (thanks for all the funny suggestions, by the way. I'll pick something soon, I promise:-) took Little Man and Knittybaby on numerous walks which left me lots of time to knit with all sorts of wonderful knitters:

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So the Harlot is coming. Coming, but not close enough to make it easy. She is coming to Eau Claire, WI, about an hour and a half from the Cities. Easy if I didn't have a five month old baby. But, Knittybaby has just begun to stay home with Daddy and Little Man, and is hasn't been going well. You see, with Little Man, I began to pump and do weekly bottle introductions diligently when he was 6

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My purple sock, the one that was a wee bit big? Good thing wool has some memory. This morning I was trying to get caught up with my blog reading, when I hear Hubby:"So what's so great about these things anyway?"He's wearing my purple sock on his big ol' size 10 1/2 feet. Which I guess really isn't that big, but big enough compared to mine. That sad thing is it's just a wee bit small for him, the

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Toes down:This one's a little big. I made the mistake of measuring a month after Knittybaby was born when I still had my chubby post-pregnancy legs. Says hubby: "Looks like they'll fall down to me." But he says that for every sock. This time, he may be right. So now do I:a. frog it? (yeah, right, this took me three months)b. make the same size and give it away? (I'm too selfish. I like this sock.

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...with my new Huskystar!It's a beginner's machine from Husqvarna. I've been researching a new machine since I've decided that my alley-found machine is unfortunately a dud. I wasn't planning on buying it today, but it was only $199 and the boys were being so good I decided to get it while I had the chance. We had La Leche League tonight so I haven't even had the time to get it out of the box yet

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Kate has had a mouse problem lately. We've had mice a couple of times, but Arthur is a great mouser. He, shall we say, "took care of them" and they've been afraid to come in ever since. While I really don't want a mouse in the house, I can deal. I got used to them while teaching at my old middle school, which had a serious mouse problem (no food outside the cafeteria, kids!) and I got used to

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Finally, my SP8 photos:Isn't the Handmaiden lovely? The sheen to the blues is so nice, I wish I could have taken better pictures. I can't wait until it's cool enough to get Knitybaby in his socks! Notice the chocolate is missing. Goodies like that don't last long around me!Here's a close-up of the buttons:I love these, and they will be perfect for the sweater I want to make for Little Man this

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I know, you all think your is the best ever, but really, I am a lucky girl because you know what I got in the mail today? Seasilk!!! I have been dying to try this yarn out! It is the most beautiful shade of blue and so, so soft. Just lovely, thank you SP8!!! I was also gifted with some more adorable socks for Knittybaby (I'm loving these litte socks), some very cute wooden airplane buttons, and

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Why, when we have such a willing hound here? "I know I look so pretty." "I'll do anything for food." "See how this bib keeps my lovely fur so clean while I eat?" "I think Chaos could learn a thing or

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I know, I know, we're all complaining about it, but this is why I live in Minnesota, so I don't have to deal with it that often. Summers like this I start thinking that Minneapolis is not north enough, and that I really ought to be living on Lake Superior; I could use that lake effect right about now!I took the boys to the Midtown Global Market today to play and cool off a bit. If you're a local

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Amazingly, for awhile yesterday we were the only ones at the park. Little Man was pretty bummed about this, so when a new girl showed up with her mom, he was on the scene:Little Man: Hi.Park Girl: I'm five.Little Man: I'm threePark Girl: I'm gonna be six.Little Man: I'm gonna be eight. (Park Girl seemed confused but hey, it's true evtually)Park Girl:I have new shoes, they're pink.Little Man I

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Okay, I know I'm late with our contest winner. I tried to get it up last night but we were all just too pooped out from our visit back to the farm. But, I persevered today, and although it is a quarter to twelve on Wednesday night and I almost fell asleep, I got back up after getting Little Man to bed and here Knittybaby and I sit, ready to announce our winner! (Knittybaby is actually asleep and

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Today is your last day to put in your contest entry! I'll pick a winner this weekend and announce on Monday or Tuesday. I may have to use a random name picker though, as your stories are so good I am honestly having a hard time. It's amazing, the goof ups that we make!"Is that bib almost done? Oh please, please can I try it on? It will look so much cuter on me!!! Knittybaby will just spit up all

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Do you all know I try to sew? Try is the key word here, as I have a posessed sewing machine. What you see here is Little Man's cape, because all three-year-olds need a cape, and a cool one at that.This machine, a Westin, was an alley find by hubby a few years ago. Last year I finallt took it in to get fixed up with the specific instructions to "not do anything if it's not worth it." I ended up

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So I spent some time this weekend learning a little about CSS and experimented with changing my blog a bit. I started out by playing around with a new banner, and just grabbed a picture from a past entry to throw in there. I kind of like the clothesline idea, but want to take a better picture where everything is knitted. I also have to figure out where the code is for the pink stripes. I want to

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Your stories are so entertaining that we should keep the contest going for one more week! We've had some really great entries so far and I have to say I'm not feeling quite so silly about my Anouk. You guys are great! (Doesn't she just look entertained? I know, she looks like she wants to bite someone but it was the best shot I could get. She's really quite the sweetheart)So for those of you who

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Remember, this lovely alpaca can be yours by sharing your biggest knitting goof up! Okay, I know my Anouk story is a tough one to beat. There aren't many of us who have, well, um... completely misread the instructions and only knit half a dress. But, we've all had troubles with guage, chosen the wrong yarn, miscounted, or just misread the instructions. Leave your story in the comments line and

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Wow!!! I have won two, yes two contests this week! This blows me away as I am one of those people who never wins contests, raffles, or anything of the type. So I give a big "Thank you!" to both Whit at About Time and Jennifer of Interval Crafting.This makes me even more excited to hear your stories about your biggest, head-smacking knitting mistake for my contest. (I can't think of a good name

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Attention residents of Minneapolis: The Fourth of July is over. Please put away your firecrackers and bottlerockets. I was very patient when you started up in early June, but you are starting to make me a wee bit batty, which makes it hard for me to concentrate when I am trying to explain things, like why ripping a five foot hole in Mommy's only set of really NICE sheets is not okay, and no, I

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Why is it that whenever I am nursing Knittybaby and he is just about asleep that Little Man has to get into something? Tonight it was the plunger in the toilet, and the thing is I know it's his plan to try to get me out of the rocking chair. The question is always, how bad of a mess will it be? Do I risk it, get Knittybaby to sleep and then go check? Or do I give in and see what he's up to and

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More thanks for all the kind words, you guys are great! I've been coping better the last few days and trying not to dwell on it. I am excited about the blanket. Just the planning of it alone has been helpful. It makes me feel like I can do something for him when everything else is really outside of my control. Plus it will be something special for him when he's older. In the meantime I'll keep

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Wow! Thank you so much for all the kind notes. Reading them over the week has made me feel so much better...it is so nice to know that you guys are thinking of us as we go through all of this.I've been reading a lot about congenital heart defects this past week and have been learning a lot. Some of it good, in that Knittybaby's defect could have been a lot worse compared to some of them out there

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Sorry for going without a post for so long. This has been a very upsetting week for us. When our Knittybaby was born, he had a heart murmur, which is quite common in newborns. By his two month check up, it was still there so our GP ordered an echocardiogram to check it out. I honestly thought it was just double checking, and it would be fine. However, it is not. Turns out our litle guy has a

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Hubby takes Little Man up for bedtime, and it's just me, Knittybaby, a CD and my messy living room. Funny thing is, it's amazing how just listening to some good music (Garden State tonight) while you rock and nurse a little baby makes the messy, toy covered living room not so bad...Before Knittybaby was born this would have been my knitting time. Little knitting this week, not even enough to

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Some of you might remember that my BIL gave us a slick recycled IBM Thinkpad last Thanksgiving. This means our computer is now easily accessible downstairs, and much faster than my crabby, early edition iMac. I've been keeping it next to the rocker, so I can either listen to Podcasts or catch up on Blogs/e-mails while Knittybaby nurses (and nurses, and nurses, boy he's been a hungry guy lately!:-

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I'm still groggy this morning. Knittybaby was up at 5:30, which I actually don't mind, except for mornings like these when I stumble downstairs to discover, NO COFFEE! The horror...I had to drink tea and wait for Hubby to bike over to Anodyne to get some beans for us.No new knitting pictures here. I'm a little headband obsessed right now, so I'll post a few more of those when they are done.I have

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My younger brother recently bought his first house, which of course warrants a housewarming gift of what else? Dishcloths! And guy dishcloths at that, no peach or pink in site my friends. Like most of the guys in Minneapolis, my brother is definitely in the blue/black/grey/brown category so I made the dishcloth to match the lifestyle (now if I only had knitted intarsia tatoos....) The colors

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and Knittybaby is nursing away, so here's a meme for your blog entertainment (and mine):Seven Things to do before I Die:1. Be fluent in another language2. Spend a year living in another country3. Make sure hubby has his chance to get his pilot's license4. Go beyond just being able to spin a little yarn, and actually learn the whole process, shearing, preparing the fleece, etc.,5. Own my own fiber

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My mom's birthday present:Happy Birthday Mom!Done in Noro, size 10 and 1/2 needles. My own pattern. Yup, the handles are crooked. It's impossible for me to make a felted bag with even handles.A sock that had been forgotten and found last weekend. Can't find the label for the yarn right now, but it is the Fiber Trends Mt. Hood pattern. This is my first lace sock, and it's really puckering up.

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...belong to Knittybaby!I wish the picture had come out clearer, but he was pretty wiggly during his modeling session. These cute socks are courtesy of my SP8, who totally made my day when I opened up my first package and found this:These are his first pair of handknit socks and they are so cute! And I am enjoying the dark chocolate right now, yum! Thank you so much SP8!!! I am one happy mama

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Wow, it's been quite the hectic week, and still kind of is, so here is my abbreviated Shepherd's Harvest report!We had a pretty wet, icky day. Little Man was still in a mood, Hubby threw out his back and was walking around like an old man, I was coming down with a cold. Plus, it was cold and rainy. Knittybaby was the only one who was happy and well all afternoon. But of course, he was asleep most

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