Let me just start by saying I never had the intention of buying so much yarn to make Christmas gifts! After meeting Tracy at Ross yesterday to buy shirts for the boys for our family photog session tomorrow, we went to Craft Essentials & got what I needed for just 3 of the gifts on the list. Smart as we are, we used our 40% off coupons on the 2 hanks of Cascade 220 quattro for my brother-in-law’s irish hiking scarf. Satisfied with that we then had to find some yarn to make the “perfect” Gryffindor scarf & hat combo for one nephew. Amazingly enough I found Red Heart to be the best combo of burgundy & gold. It’s some of the most foul yarn to knit with but it washes to a nice softness & blocks well to hold shape. Of course, then I needed some woolease to appease my dwindling woolease bin, for another hat & scarf set for another nephew.
Yesterday & today I sat so patiently waiting for the postman to come to my door bearing gifts. sigh
No yarn for me, I have an order from handpaintedyarn.com coming but i got an email saying it won’t be shipped until the 18th. I have 2 orders from Elann coming slated for gifts.
But today we were blessed with heelies for my son Tyler. Now some of you that know Tyler might ask “why in the world would you put that boy on shoes with wheels?” He put them on & promptly fell on his bony little butt! Now he is sure that I need to read the instructions to him before he can do it properly. Right after falling he asked me “why’d the god make shoes with wheels?” In a very angry huff! I explained that people made them, not the God. They are for fun & he is the one that saved his money to buy them to be “cool”. I am sure he’ll get the hang of it eventually. If not, oh well!
Knitting last night at Java Station was fun! We had 2 new girls show up, very nice to see new faces! Our stitch n bitch group now has a total member number of 74 but our meetings are really only an average of maybe 8-10 of the same women each week. It’s a good group & last night we were all in great moods!
I have got to get dinner started, the fam is starting to revolt & that just is not a good thing! Happy weekend everyone!