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Squirt is found!!

Our beloved new turtle that was once lost is now found! Amazingly enough I found him while vacuuming my bedroom. I am very confused by his whereabouts because we checked our room for him at least a dozen times & considering I vacuum in there every other day I am shocked I didn’t find him sooner. Well at least he is back out in the pond  with Crush & has food.

I finished Tracy’s bday gift today and will post pictures after she gets it on the 18th. And I am working on a baby hat for my soon to be born nephew/niece. We don’t know what sex it is yet. I will do a hat & some cute tiny socks. I also need to do a baby blanket for the baby. I just can’t decided what yarn & pattern. Something fun & simple, that’s the families taste.

That is the excitement happening at our wet & soggy house today. Hope your day is bright & shiny despite the weather!

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Anyone want to Aran?

Okay so I posted pics of the pattern & the yarn I am going to use in the aran-along that Thuy so graciously bullied me into (I say bullied because I have been putting this sweater off for more than a year & she pushed me kindly to do it, really without even knowing that is what she would do). I am rather excited about it & have even been tempted to put down the stripey sweater once more to start the aran sweater. But since the ‘official’ start date isn’t until feb 1 I will plug right along on the stripey pain in my ass.

I washed both the verdeatriana sweater & the “sweatshirt” from Tracy today. Rather interesting development, the light blue sweater rinsed lavender purple. Craziest thing! But it’s not so crazy considering it is from handpaintedyarn & all their yarn has something funky about it. Blast how I love their yarns!

Must fight the urge to start the aran, must fight it, must fight it!!

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Spring cleaning in Jan??

I suppose it is the break in the rain that has me feeling like cleaning out. I worked on our 2 hall closets, our bedroom closet & next I move on to the kids closets. I can brag that I am a fairly organized person so luckily it hasn’t been much of a challenge. It’s been nice to get rid of the things that we haven’t used in this house since we moved in about 2 years ago.

Knitting on the stripey sweater is moving right along. I finished the first arm, now I am over half done with the second arm. I took a poll at knitting group on Monday and it was decided that I can do the back in solid red (same as the arms) so that I don’t have to battle with doing the striped pattern again & have about a trillion ends to weave in. Carrying them up the side was a serious pain in the ass. Oh but wait…I just noticed out of the corner of my eye that I bought those large yarn bobbins! Oh, now I may have to rethink doing stripes. I can totally wind the yarn on the bobbins! Duh, that is what they were invented & sold to me for! Well damnit! Thanks for the input ladies but now I have gone back to the original stripes. Don’t you love how you get to see my thought process’ work?? It is amazing!

I also started a sweater for Sadie, she needs a new cute fitted sweater. So I am thinking I will just do a simple 2×2 rib edge then stockinette body with raglan shaping & crew neck. In the round of course! Then I may do some fun embroidery on it, flowers or some such thing. It will be pretty plain since it is solid light blue. I am done with over half of the body. I may start the sleeves today depending on how the closet cleaning goes.

So there you have my Wednesday plans! Hope y’all have a rockin’ hump day too!!

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Felted striped bag (done in a huge hurry!)

Okay this one came out so much different than the other striped felted bags I did. Because I used a different yarn than Patons classic merino. I used waterspun from Elann (don’t remember the brand). I knew it didn’t shrink nearly as much so I expected a larger bag but not this big! It is about 24″ across the top, 18″deep & for some reason it flared across the top. It came out perfect, even if it wasn’t expected!