Month: March 2006

I don’t know how many of you are afflicted with chronic allergies but let me just tell you, IT SUCKS!! For the past couple of days I have had all the symptoms of an impending sinus infection. I have much experience with this so I do my usual routine. Take the sinus meds I know will start to clear it. Drink a ton of water (which is not my usual routine) to get myself fully hydrated. And wait for the run to happen. It happened yesterday thank goodness but does it mean something that I slept really, really hard until 10:30am with no meds on board? I slept through the kids, their movie blaring, their sibling rivalries, all of it. Now my head feels like it weighs at least a billion ounces, I have a cough, my chest is heavy & I am so dry I might blow away. At this point staring at the computer screen and deleting every other letter due to mistake is all I can take. The coffee is brewing, the knitting is sitting.

Thanks to all who took the yarn, books and yarn bras I brought to get rid of. I knew if there were any other people that brought yarn I wouldn’t be able to stay away from it. Maura had the yarn I had to have. Yummy, soft, cream boucle-type attached to dark brown yarn in the middle. Hard to describe and since it was all balled I have no clue what it really is. It is so soft I debated on what it would become. Blanket? No, not enough. Sweater? No, a little too furry for my liking. I got it! Pillow cover & a heat pad cover. I have a squish type bolster pillow on my chair that I use for back support that is bright pink/red/purple stripes. It stands out like a soar thumb when I am not in my chair. And a portable heat pad cover to replace the dinky little flannel one that it came with. I am only about 3inches away from being done with the bolster cover. I am using a really old Interweave knits hot-water bottle cover sweater pattern for the heat pad cover. It is all cabled and has a turtleneck where you insert the pad/bottle. So cute! An aran sweater that is only 14″ long, has no sleeves & is a whoppin’ 80 stitches around? Hell yes I am making it!

I just talked to Tracy & she is in Long Beach, 5 minutes away from an Ikea & having the willpower not to go inside! I almost gave her a list of things I need but then we decided to just take a Saturday & go down ourselves. It’s only 2 hours away! And she does have a list of 3 yarn shops that she might stop by tomorrow on her way out. If not, no biggy. Bridesmaid dress shopping and wedding planning for a friend for an entire weekend is more than enough to keep oneself busy. Now what will you do this weekend?

Happy Saturday!

My neighborhood is not nearly as pretty as Tracy’s last panorama, but the clouds were nice today!

Today I walked in on a huge battle between Rose and Fuzzy (our bunnies). Fur flying, rolling around, flinging eachother in the air. It was awful. I managed to get over my shock, yell at them & then separate Rose from Fuzzy’s back. Unfortunately Rose lost a tooth in the skirmish. Also unfortunately, Rose will have to go live somewhere else. He has never been the friendliest bunny but now he is downright agressive with all of us and Fuzzy. They have been bonded for over a year now & never had trouble like they have had the past few weeks. At first I thought it was possibly having a new bunny in the house but other than a short introduction they have not been with Charlie. I think Rose is just not happy. SO, our goal is to make him happy! He’ll take a trip to a happier place this evening after the kids get to say good bye to him. Here he is as a perfect baby bunny, January 2004!
Goodbye Rosevelt Rabbit!

I just finishe a pair of crochet slippers for Trevor. Using 2 strands of yarn held together, caron simply soft and Bernat denim, with a size K hook. I loosely based them off of a pattern from crochet central. I hate sewing so instead of making a separate instep to sew in, I just chained across like a maryjane then decreased around and sewed it shut. If you want more instructions just ask & I will email the details to you.

Stash busting is my goal for the week. I really want to finish as many things as I can using ‘extra’ yarn that I have. Finished projects will appear like magic!!

Tracy, the dear that she is, made me a new pair of slippers! Yay! The other 2 pair I have both wore holes in the big toe spots so we thought doubling the yarn on the bottoms would solve that problem. It did, I think, but it brought about a new problem; lack of felting. The double stranded bottom, of course, didn’t felt as much as the single strand top so I had to felt, felt, felt to get them to fit the length of my foot. But that brought about the problem of getting them onto my feet. The pattern casts off at the top opening where you insert your foot and it had felted so much it pinched my achilles once I got it on. So to relieve the pressure I snipped the back of the heel just a bit so that it would stretch to let my foot have some room. Perfect!! I do love them so much I haven’t worn anything since. No kidding. Okay that could have something to do with the fact that other than taking the kids to & from school (driving due to the cold and rain) I haven’t had to leave the house since Sunday. So here the new ones are! Using lambs pride worsted in 4 colors.