So, apparently, I watch more romantic comedies than I realized, because I think I’ve seen most of the ones you guys have listed so far!
So, here’s the really cute thing I made last night:
An hour, tops. I intended to work on a little dress for Hannah’s Bitty Baby, but the pattern I was using was intended for a real baby, and instead of modifying it for the smaller doll, I thought, “Hellooo, you have a brand-new niece arriving in the next 2 weeks, maybe you should just make a dress for her.”
So, I did.
It’s based on this tutorial: Itty Bitty Baby Dress, which calls for piping at the waist, and purchased bias binding for the hem — I skipped the piping and just turned a hem.
It was ridiculously simply, the bodice just ties at the shoulders, the skirt was made out of 2 rectangles. When I make another one, I might take a little bit longer to do some nicer seam finishing, but for a first try, I think it turned out pretty sweet. I’ll be anxious to see if it even fits the new little person, and I promise (since I’m going to the post office every 5 minutes shipping orders…) to actually MAIL this before the new little person arrives.
Over the weekend, when I was suffering, I did spend some time knitting. (Well, I didn’t on Sunday, omstly on Sunday I Just lay in my bed and moaned). But Saturday Monday? I totally cranked out some knitting. Not the socks. I couldn’t face those little bitty needles. But I finished the parts for the knitting project I teased you with a few weeks ago:
It’s a stuffed monster. Apparently I can’t count, and made too many ears. I still have to stuff it, sew it all together and attach the eyes.
The pattern is Penelope the Empathetic Monster.
I also decided that because I was sick, and because..well, just becaues, I deserved to start a new project. This is a long-term knitting project:
It’s from the Mason-Dixon book Knitting Outside the Lines and is a blanket called Liberty. (Ravelry link) It doesn’t look like much right now, but hooo boy is it purty…
And with that, I must sign off, and return to the grindstone for a short while before I head up to take my darling husband out for lunch. Tuesday was our 14th anniversary, and I was so not up to eating much more than toast that day. I’ve got my appetite today, though, and am even planning to order dessert!!
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And I was totally going to post a picture and show it off, only my camera is at the shop, because it has some other pictures on it that I was totally going to download and post about earlier today, only…I forgot.
I’d grab Mark’s camera, but I have the worst luck with that piece of crap, so, you’ll just have to wait in eager anticipation, knowing that I have some really cute things to share.
I’ll even write myself a note, so that I can hopefully remember. I’ve not been having a lot of luck with making Mental Notes.
Here’s a question for you: I just watched the movie Miss Congeniality (yes, I’m WAY behind the times…), and I really enjoyed it. I could go ask Netflix for recommendations of movies, but I thought I’d poll the peanut gallery for some of your favorite romantic comedies from the last few years. Any suggestions??
I have to watch romantic comedies by myself. It’s not so much that Mark refuses, it’s just that they put him to sleep, and there’s really no point in him even bothering.
Speaking of sleep, I really ought to go to bed, but I’m sporting a really wicked cough, and am not really looking forward to trying to sleep. Mark’s not really looking forward to it, either. He is a pretty sound sleeper, but…
I have to say, though, there is nothing worse than laying in bed, wanting (needing!) to go to sleep, and listening to your husband breathing the slow…deep…breathing…of someone who is soundly asleep. He doesn’t really snore, but sometimes he’ll be in a position where his slow…deep…breathing…is sort of snore-like and…I’ve never actually considered smothering him, but…it’s tempting. Thankfully, nudging works, and I only feel the tiniest bit of guilt for doing so.
OK, leave me your movie suggestions, and I promise to share some fabric and yarn cuteness tomorrow. If I can remember my name by then.
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OK, maybe this first guy will be a little old in 2018:
But check out these guys:
Oof, not sure this one ended that well:
The best part, though, is the facial expressions:
Mark and the boys went to Dubuque on Saturday to snowboard, and then out to the farm on Sunday for a repeat. I think they might have had more ufn on Grandpa’s snow piles than they did over in Dubuque, too many idiots on the trails over there…
I was on my deathbed, the pictures were taken by Mark or one of the boys. Mark said it’s a pretty amazing feeling to be flying through the air. I think I’ll just take his word for it.
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I have been so productive the last few days.
Not.
The only thing I’ve produced is a trashcan full of tissues. I haven’t been this sick in YEARS. Sure, I’ve had colds, but I haven’t been this flattened by a virus since…I can’t even remember when.
The main entertainment has been trading jokes with my husband about what music he’s going to play at my memorial service.
I am feeling a little more human today, but not by much. I wish I could say I’ve been sleeping a lot, but sleep seems to be eluding me. I ran through several TV shows on DVD over the weekend, but have had to resort to regular TV today. We don’t have cable, or satellite, so it’s been pretty slim pickings.
So, yeah. I think I’ll go lay back down now. Sitting up and typing seems to have wiped me back out.
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Hello? Is this thing on?
In theory, if you’ve saved my blog to your favorite Blog Reader, you should now be seeing a gob of posts showing up because…well, I don’t know why it wasn’t working for 2 weeks, but it’s working again now. (Knock on wood).
No wonder no one was commenting on what I was doing: you didn’t know I was doing anything.
So..yeah! Hello! I hope you’ll at least skim back through, and hopefully in the future, if I disappear for 2 weeks, someone will ask me about it sooner. As it is: thanks, Mom! I had no idea!
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I’ve been feeling…underwhelmed by the amount of blog comments I’ve been getting over the last 2 weeks.
My mom just now told me that my blog hasn’t been showing up in Google Reader, she has to come visit the site directly for updates.
Well, duh. I haven’t seen my blog show up in my blog reader, either, and now that I’m investigating, I can tell that there is a problem, but I can’t figure out what it is (yet).
So now I don’t feel so unloved, just really really annoyed about this stupid danged technology.
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Between meetings and being really tired at night this week: I just haven’t been knitting. I did knit for awhile last night and have evaluated where I’m at:
I timed myself this morning and it took me 2 minutes 48 seconds to do one complete round of 80 stitches. If I were able to just knit without having the yarn tangle, or have to switch the yarn color, or have anyone talk to me or need me to let them out or have to go to the bathroom myself: it would take me another 215 minutes (3 and a half hours…) just to do all of the plain stripes. The heel, patterned section, ribbing, bind off, and tail burying would account for another 2 or 3 hours (at least), so we’re talking a minimum of 5.5 to 6 hours to get this second sock done.
I’m just not sure that’s physically possible for me, especially considering I’ve developed a swallowing glass kind of sore throat…I’m not feeling guilty about possibly not getting it done though: getting one sock done was a pretty big deal to me, learning to do Fair Isle, and learning the short row heel were great accomplishments, so no matter what, I feel pretty good about this experience.
Want to see something super cute? I bought myself a new wallet yesterday:
It was either this polka dot one or a plain red one.
Actually, it wasn’t much of a contest.
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Rearranging things
Mark and I have been sleeping in our new bedroom for about a week now. All of the furniture is now in place and I finally finished moving my clothes up yesterday. We’ll still be using the master bedroom bathroom, so I’m going to have to get used to having my clothes on a different floor, possibly even planning ahead enough to bring clothes down with me to the bathroom. Luckily, I have a nice robe, so I won’t be running around naked.
The bedroom is in desperate need of things on the wall, a situation that will be remedied as we bring things home from the shop. Two main pluses for our new bedroom: we aren’t directly on top of the furnace anymore: when it kicks on we can barely hear it! And the second is a plus now, but will be a minus this summer: the room is SO much warmer, I’m able to sleep with fewer clothes on. (Some nights I needed a sweatshirt on top of my flannel pjs. Now I’m down to just the flannel, and could probably go with shorts and a t-shirt.)
I’m working on finding homes for all of my stuff in the new studio, a process that will take a sharp right turn in the next few weeks as I fill it up with everything from downtown. I’m already trying to mentally prepare for a new way of operating: a place for everything, and everything in it’s place. Every square inch is going to be in use, and it’s going to be interesting…
Shop Update
Apologies to those of you who have seen this either in the MQResource forums, or will be getting an e-mail newsletter…
The fabric at the shop is looking much thinner, but the yarn. I’d still like to get rid of some more yarn, so, I’ve now got it all marked down by 40%, to maybe tempt some more shoppers. I wish I had more sock yarn for all of you sock knitters, but one of the main things I have is 51 colors of Cascade 220 wool. It’s great for felting, and felted bags are a great beginner’s project. I also have a bunch of other stuff, and at 40% off…maybe I can get rid of some more of it. I can only knit so much…
The fabric is all now marked down to 40% off as well, and I’ve listed bundles of fat quarters and fat 8ths in various combinations at crazy low prices, check them out if your stash could use some enhancement.
Most of the quilting and sewing patterns and books are marked down by 20% as well as some of the notions that I carry.
In Other News
I’m not sure I’m going to make it with the sock. I’ve run completely out of steam. I’ll keep going, and maybe I can pull out a miracle.
Lastly: I actually turned on a sewing machine for the first time in something like 2 weeks. Crazy.
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You’ll have to excuse the blurriness of my photos tonight. It’s been kind of a traumatic day, and apparently, blurry photos are the best I can manage.
First, the good news:
Yes! My first sock is done! I’m not entirely sure I can actually manage to get the second one done this week, but I’m sure going to try.
It might be hard, though, as my age seems to be catching up with me.
I found my first gray hair this morning.
I can no longer gloat about the fact that my YOUNGER siblings both have gray, and I don’t. (Of course, you can be sure I yanked that hair promptly, but now I’ll be on the lookout for more. Mark looked, and said he didn’t see any more, but I’m not sure he would have told me the truth at that point).
(And yes, I know I’m not really THAT old, and readers who are older than me aren’t at all sympathetic, but geeze, I bet you were kind of freaked out by your first gray, too, so please let me have my moment of whining…)
The other trauma I experienced today:
Joe’s feet, while nowhere near as big around as mine, are now the same LENGTH as my feet. Will’s aren’t quite as long, but they aren’t far behind. They’ve both been desperately hungry lately, so I’m not surprised by a growth spurt, but holy cow! I have big feet! And his are already as long as mine????
It was all so much that I had to take a nap. I may have to go to bed early, too.
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I thought I was staying on track for getting these finished, but I think I’ve fallen a bit behind, I should probably be completely finished witht he first sock by now, but I’m close:
I do have part of the toe of the 2nd sock started, but I don’t think it adds up to quite enough to say I’m half way done. The upper Fair Isle part is definitely not perfect, I need to work on my tension, but I hope that blocking the socks will help. I’m pretty thrilled with how it looks, and even though my right hand felt more awkward last night working the Fair Isle than it had when I did the the foot section, it still went pretty well.
We had to go get groceries tonight, and I could only knit on the way up, too dark on the way back. I should probably shut down and go get busy on some more knitting. Time’s a wastin’!
We got 2 more inches of snow over night and expect more tomorrow. Woohoo. (not.)
TTFN -
Suzanne
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