If I say I'm not knitting ~ I'm probably lying

Hey, thanks for all of the nice comments. Right now I can sure use them. Kadiddly left me one about the History Channel, because at her blog I'd left a comment about Digging For The Truth. I love archeology, and like she said, that Josh Bernstein makes the show just a little more interesting, if you know what I mean. hehehe*wink, wink At least he's a little older than I am. I hate it when I get a little Hollywood crush, and then find out the actor or TV personality guy is younger than I am!

I have been such a bad blogger! I have reasons, though, and if you want to see what I knit, you have to read (or skim) through them first. haha

This sounds familiar, I know I read something just like it on someone else's blog recently. You know when you think a person is your friend and then you find out they are just backstabbing liars? Yeah, that. I've been feeling a little whiny and sorry for myself. You can usually tell if I'm not feeling like my normal self if I'm wearing my glasses. That either means it's really early and I haven't put my contacts in, or I don't feel well, so I'm not going to bother. My friend Carrie talks about putting good out into the world. I try to think of that every time I feel mean toward this person. I want a good, peaceful world, so I'm trying to be nice. Small town living, small minds. I know it doesn't have to be this way! Urgh!!

Ahhh, I feel a little better now. At the very least, I know one person who is always on my side. My best friend, Lisa. And if she thought of being on 'the other side' I'd just remind her of the cool things I knit for her. :D Like this wonderful hat I did for the Get Stitchy! Stitch for Chicks along. And yes, I did say wonderful! The pattern is fun, and quick. I have been getting tons of compliments on my green hat, and when I say "Thank you, it was so fun to knit." I love the looks non-knitters give me when they say "You made that!? It's so great!" hehe. See, commentslut.

In the last picture on the right, you can see the matching bracelet my LD made for her Aunt Wheeza. I'm going to have to put that kid to work and put some of those on my shop. **Just joking, child labor law people!

I am going to post the stats and a link to the pattern on my other blog. You can see what yarn I used and all of that there. Let me just tell ya, I used Sugar & Cream, and that must make this the least expensive hat in the world, but it looks great! I just might have to make me an orange one. My kids all want one, too. At least I could afford to make three more with the cotton.

Now, I have to go play nurse. I hate it when my kids are sick! LD is home coughing her poor little head off. She was not happy with me this morning when I told her she was not going to school. She doesn't have a fever, but she was hacking uncontrollably. She looked miserable, too. I know she wouldn't be learning much, if I sent her, and here she can breathe some steam from the vaporizer and hopefully get rid of that wheeze. She gets sick so quickly ~ overnight, and hopefully it will be gone as quickly, or off to the doctor we'll have to go.

Hope everyone is doing and feeling well. I think before I make the lil' convalescent some more tea, I'll go update the FO blog. Have a great one!

My Best Friend

I joined another monthly knit along at Get Stitchy!. For some reason these knit alongs don't scare me, like most of the other knit alongs. Yeah, I'm weird.

This is the Stitch for Chicks Along. Members of the knitting (crochet and embroidery too) forums can join. Any one can go see what everyone's up to, and see knitting pictures. Or just go join!!
They also have a huge knit blog list, if you feel like checking out some new blogs.

Here's what it says about Stitch for Chicks at Get Stitchy: "During the month of March, members of get stitchy! will be participating in the Stitch for Chicks-along! The goal of which is to make a gift, using the fiber art of your choice, to give thanks to a woman in your life. Any woman, yourself included, for any reason. "


Well, I have chosen my best-best friend as the recipient of my gift. She saw my hat, and I could tell she wanted one really bad!!! Mostly because she kept saying "You're making me an orange one, right?" LOL

This is the pattern I'm using by Jennifer. I love her patterns. She has more on her blog, and there are some extra notes about the Topi on her blog, too. And a gallery of the things others have knit from her patterns. (I'm in there ~ hehe)

I'm using Sugar 'n Cream cotton in Hot Orange. A lot of people don't like it, but I love the stiffness of this yarn. I just might have to make another hat with some S&C. The pics (click to see bigger) show where I started yesterday, and where I was (and still am) last night. LD and I had some knitting time. Since school was let out early for bad weather! Her scarf is one row down. 250 stitches per row! She took that pic of me holding it. You can see my red bracelet that I wear all of the time. LD finger-knitted it for me. I was going to say that before since it looked like part of my fetching mitt, but I forgot. Thanks for reminding me del. :)


My best friend is so important to me. I have regular friends, but she's more like a sister. Right after my kids, she is the person I love and need in my life most of all. I know it's the same for her. We've been best friends for over 20 years. She's going to kick my butt, because I can never remember exactly how long. LOL. She is the only person (except for one family member) who tells me they love me without my saying it first. It's a really good thing that Hubby likes her, because I'd probably miss him if he even thought of making me choose. I'm joking!! (kind-of) Hahaha ~ Relax.
I think everyone needs a friend that is like this. It doesn't matter what kind of hellish day I'm having she can make me laugh. And she loves orange as much as I do.

Thank you, Lee, for being my best friend!!

I can't think of a good title ~ Again!

Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes and great comments. You all know I love them, since I told you what I am a couple of posts ago. hehe

Yikes! I've been so busy! I think I should have been born an heiress so I can live a life of leisure. LOL

I finished another UFO!

Marji sent me the gorgeous yarn and pattern ages ago, and I started right away, but I got side tracked by startitis. Well, I've been seeing all of these wonderful scarves that are knitted the long way, so I finally did it! I love it. The pictures just don't show you how great the yarn is. Really, it is the most luxurious yarn I've ever used. Hopefully by Friday I'll have the stats for it up on my other blog.

I know the pic of it on SP is blurry, but it shows how long the scarf is. SP is at least 6 feet tall, maybe even taller, since we haven't measured in a while!

Well, I also finished some fetching mitts. I love 'em! They match my St. Patrick's Day Hat. I'll probably wear them a few times, and of course on March 17, then give them to LD. If they aren't too big for her. She really likes them.

They were so quick to knit. I started them Saturday and finished them before the weekend was over, but I wove the ends in today. I just wish I had more time to knit. I used to, and I thought when my kids got bigger I'd be less busy. LOL. Yeah, right! Less busy. Good one, huh?

Like the scarf, I hope to get the stats up before too long!

I love knitting (duh!) but knitting with others is different. The knitting part is great, but I never knew how much I miss talking to grown ups! Sunday, at my Hubby's basketball game I gave knitting lessons. :D I can't wait til next Sunday to see how she's doing and knit with her some more. We also had our little knit group this morning. Carrie was spinning on her spindle, and she makes it look so easy! She and I have been talking about a fiber fest. I am planning and saving up! I want to go. It'll be so fun!!!!

I've got to find some time to do some things I want to do, like read blogs. I thought Monday would be free for that kind of stuff, but the kids had a snow day. We goofed off all day long, and I didn't go on the computer at all. Tuesdays and Thursdays I'm at the neighbors, helping out with their files, so today would be good, if it weren't for the house work. See, like I said, I need a maid to do that so I can do fun things.

Hope you have lots of time for knitting and fun stuff! Knit On!

p.s. I put the stats up for the mitts and the scarf up on my other blog. :D

SkaterPunk

February 24, 1990

My Baby is 17!

I'm not really sure how that happened. His b-day is actually tomorrow, but we'll be busy.

Look at those pics! Man, he has changed!!

My best friend's sister had her baby early this morning. On the new baby girl's grandpa's birthday. She really couldn't have helped being born on someone in the family's birthday if she had to be born in February. Most of the days this month are full. :)

Well, I'd cry just from the emotions of the years passing, but the heater fix-it guy just left with almost 180.00 of my dollars. We have heat again. At least it was only 180. Right? Could have been worse! Why does it go out at night, after the plumbing/heating guys are closed?? It got down to 54 degrees in here. That really is not too bad. I was afraid we'd freeze, but if it were 54 outside, I'd be having a party and running around with no coat.

Have a great weekend, y'all! We have b-day parties, and basketball games with knitting lessons thrown in! And a new baby and mommy to go visit. Yay!

Surprise knitting: Soap Socks

Oh, wait, that's no surprise!

Well, I haven't been getting much knitting done. I did dye some wool. Mmmm. Love the dyeing. If you click to make the pic bigger you can see the colors better, and my little stitch marker on the soap sock in progress.

That's what I've been knitting: Soap Socks. Surprise! Hehe. I have one soap left. Then, I need to go to the store and get more soap. I think there are 13 on my shop, and one in progress. The greenish soap sock all by itself in the top pic, and on the top of the pile of the bottom pic is for Rhoda. That one's the only one not for sale. :)

I have been knitting on my scarf from Marji, and on my blue sofa throw for the family. I have plans to start lots of things, too. Those things aren't even WIPs anymore, they are definitely UFOs.

I have been so busy! I miss reading everyone's blogs all day long. hehe. And the Knitter's Review and Get Stitchy! I've been going to the neighbors' business and doing some data entry in their computer a couple hours, a couple times a week. Who would think that would make me lose so much computer time? Urgh! Oh well, at least it gets me out of the house for a couple hours while the kids are at school.

My paragraphs are still all weird! I guess every other one will always just be a different color.

Thanks for all of the comments on my last post. I think I may be a commentslut. Oooohhhh!!! Can you believe that I typed that?

On Sundays Hubby plays basketball with a bunch of other old guys, and we go watch. Of course, I sit there knitting and visiting with the other wives. Well, one lady asked me to teach her to knit this weekend! Yay! I think I love to teach knitting as much as I love to knit. So, Sunday it's knitting lesson time.

Well, the little girl and I need to go to the school again and get the boys from their club meeting! Time sure does fly! Gotta Run! Keep Knitting!!

Funny?

Well, I promised a funny story, but it's just funny weird, not funny "haha".

So, there was a square dance for all the girl scouts. The dance was at a school in the next little town over. Our school is pretty small. There are only about 40 kids per grade, 20 kids per class, give or take. The school they were at is also small but goes into a big high school. Our high school kids probably went to kindergarten with almost every kid in their graduating class.

While they were in the hall they saw a locker with a sign that said "This locker belongs to Arleta". Most people would be like "cool", but this isn't like seeing a name like Lisa, or Sue, or Julie. (My best-friend, and my sister's names). Arleta isn't very common, especially in Michigan!

I want to know who named their kid that! I know it's weird, but I keep trying to think of someone I might know who could find out for me. LOL. Makes me sound a little psycho, but I swear I'm not! If the parents of the other Arleta are my age, I probably knew them, or knew of them in school if they lived in this county.

When I named SP, there were no other Jordan's that I knew of. Now, I hear it all of the time! There were only really old guys named Malcolm when I named MM, but it's becoming popular again. I really thought absolutely for sure though, that Arleta would stay "our" name. It's also my mother's name.

If y'all didn't think I was crazy before ...... LOL

I went to the baby shower, and gave my bestfriend's sister the things I made for her. Everyone was like "You made all of that?" See me blush? LOL. I also gave a couple of soap socks wrapped in a garterlac cloth for a prize for one of the games. Those were a big hit! The shower turned out great. All the cute pink and purple clothes. It had better really be a girl!

The kids are home from school today for midwinter break. MM has knocked me off the high scores of Guitar Hero II, darn kid!

I thought, I'll have a chance to read some blogs, but bloglines is down! I guess I'll read them off the sidebar of my blog. I've been reading (lurking!) every chance I get, but I love to leave comments. I hope all the people I comment to don't go "AR again! She's a comment-addict." Yes, I am. I love to get comments, too. Thanks for all of the ones you've left for me.

I sold a couple of soaps at my etsy shop! Thanks to the buyers, too!! :)

bloglines is working fine now! Yay!

Soap Socks!

I'm slowly listing my soap socks on the shop. I have 12 done, and 2 are on there so far.

Funny story coming up as soon as I have time to do a real post!

edit: I have 12 soaps up! Yay! I still have to fool around with the pics of bracelets and get them on there, too. :)

DPN Holders, Socks, and Soapsocks

(Yeah, I still can't think of good titles. LOL)

Thank you all so much for the nice comments for SP. He is hating that splint. It rubs his leg, but I keep reminding him it's almost over! Yay! He doesn't wear it when he's sitting around or sleeping, either. If I usually email you, I'm getting there. I'm so far behind in the things I want to do! Especially Blog Reading!

Well, I have been busy trying to take some good photos of my soaps so I can finally put them on my etsy shop. I forgot to say that the soaps have the gentle scent of aloe. It smells good. Fresh. Everyone in real life has liked the scent so far, anyways! LOL.

Speaking of Etsy Shops, look what I got! I got some awesome DPN Holders. They have frog beads to guard against frogging. Thank you Sherry, they are so great! They have to guard these socks, because I have left them neglected for I don't know how long. They might get finished for the UFO along, or they might get frogged. We'll just have to wait and see. I haven't decided yet.

I also finished LD's Broadripple socks. They looked so huge on the needles, but they fit just right, and she loves them! They are really stretchy, too, so hopefully she won't grow right out of them. I know she won't, because I can get them on my big, ol' feet, so I bet she'll wear these out before they're too small. I've got the stats up on to my other blog. They even almost match! I love knitting socks.

I don't know where the time goes! I sit down here at the computer, hoping to do some posting, and go read some blogs, and I never seem to get much done! Not as much as I hope to, anyways. Where does the time go?

Here are a couple more pics of socks, and some finished soap socks, too.

I've gotta run and get something done before I go get those kids!!

Hope everyone's knitting and loving it. I hope I'll find some time to go catch up on blogs soon!!

Cast Off

We went to the doctor's office Wednesday, and SP is cast-free. He has a removable **air splint just for added support for two weeks, and we don't have to go back there until May! I am so glad. He was really tired of dragging around a cast, and now he can go back to his weekend/afterschool job. **an air splint is a hard u-shaped splint that goes on with velcro and has air pockets for cushion on the inside. It's really weird. He can wear it inside his shoe! I had to ask what it was when they first told us. LOL

I sure don't have much knitting to report. Not like Rhoda who is starting a sweater! I finished and immediately sold a soap on Wednesday morning at knit group, I also gave another one away before taking pictures. LD's first Broadripple-like sock is done. I am at the place where you pick up stitches for the gusset of the second sock. I'm going to go to Grumperina's site, and pick the stitches up the pretty way this time. The top pic is the one with the flash, and the bottom one without. I think!

Monday and Tuesday the kids were home from school, because the temperature with the wind chill was too cold for the buses, and for kids to be standing around waiting for buses. We also had Lake Effect Snow, and blowing and drifting. Yesterday and Wednesday, the sun was out, though! I still can't believe it, but it was! Having those two unexpected days off from school, makes for a strange week. I'm so glad it is Friday!

I've been getting the nicest compliments on my new hat. Even the grumpiest check out lady at the grocery store, the one we never go to, said she liked my hat. I've never heard her say anything nice to any one. I'm going to have to hold on to this one tight, my three kids want to steal it from me!

I guess I really can knit when I get a chance. Last night Hubby saw me making yucky faces at the dishes, so he did them, while I sat and knitted on that sock and finally caught up on some Lime & Violet podcasts. Man, they crack me up! I love that I can listen to podcasts and knit at the same time. I used to knit while waiting for pages to load, but the computer is too fast now. Not that I'm complaining! Heck no, I like the fast!

Thanks so much for all of the nice comments on my hat, and on the knitter girls. hehe While we sat in the DR. office LD got to knit a bit on her sock. That was very exciting for her. Her own knitting was at school. I love that they get to knit at school! Anyways, thank you! I love the nice comments, everybody!

Have a great weekend!!

We're The Knitter Girls!

LOL. That's what LD said this morning. "We're The Knitter Girls". It's finally a snow day! Yay! We've been waiting all winter!

Yesterday, I took LD's knitting to the Hubby's basketball game, with mine. She gets so bored, when she's bored; I'm annoyed. The knitting saved the day. She's been working on a baby doll scarf ever since. Here we are after dinner last night, knitting away! See, knitting is a life saver.

On Friday night, it was the girl scout cookie sale sendoff. There was a pizza party, a movie, crafts; you know, fun stuff. It was so cold, though! As we were dropping LD off, Carrie yells across the parking lot "Wait one second, Arleta!" So I run over there and she had a plate of muffins for us. Wasn't that nice? I took a picture, but it's too pitiful, because Hubby, SP, and I ate some muffins in the car on the way home. LOL. I did save one each for MM, and LD, but I ate the rest! They were really good! Thanks, Carrie! :)

Ok, now Please ignore how pale I am, and just look at the hat. I know it's bad for my skin, but I'm going to go to the tanning salon. I look ill. Plus, there's no sun here! You know when people say "Stick it where the sun don't shine..." They mean Northern Michigan! It was about 10 pm, and I'd had a long day, too. So, ignore the "duh" looks on my face, too. LOL

Here is my Green Hat for the Green Hat Knit-along. I'm posting the stats here at my FO Blog. I have enough yarn to do another hat. I wonder if I have enough to make some matching glovelettes? That would be neat.

I need to get busy on LD's socks, though. I haven't touched them in a few days, and she keeps giving me little hints that she'd like to wear them soon.

We just did LD's 100 day project. For the 100th day of school the kids make something with 100 things. LD put 100 beads in sets of 10 on a string of yarn, in a pattern of course. For some reason she really likes patterns.

Thank you all for the comments about the lost wallet and the rant on parking, and mean kids. I know life's not all sunshine and rainbows, it's so nice to be able to complain about it, and know that there are other people who understand.

I think I'll go put the stats for the hat on my new blog, and report in to the GH KAL finished hat section that I got one hat done. I just might have to do another!

Hope you all have a great day!

Yay Moms!

The weekend is going much better! I spied this contest at 5 minutes for mom, though and wanted to share. Check out that jewelry. Just gorgeous.

Warning: Cranky Post Ahead

Well, first I want to say to everyone thank you for your nice comments. I'll be sending emails soon.

Ericajo that yarn is Sugar & Cream from Lily. It was the weirdest thing the way it pooled like that. Just some variegated cotton. I love pooling. :)

But Ericajo's question made me finally get off my butt and start another blog! Arleta's Motley Wool FO's. It'll just be pics with the stats on yarn, needles, all that stuff. I'll save the juicy life bits (which I am going to p & m about in a minute) for here.

Gaiagal, that sounds like a weird combo, but I'll try just about anything, if the thought of it doesn't make me gag. I just won't tell the family what's in it, until after they eat it!

Ok, if you want a happy post, like I usually have, sorry you aren't going to find it here. One reason my posts are usually happy is because I sit down, and as I'm typing I feel so much better that I edit out stuff. It just doesn't fit any more. Well, today isn't turning out so great, it started bad, but I'm hoping it'll get better!!

I borrowed this from Bezzie, (she likes snow! How weird is that?)

It's the six weird things meme with a twist

Six Things That Piss Me Off

1. The parking lots at my kids' schools. People are morons and don't know how to drive or follow rules. The elementary one was so bad that the principal stands out there directing traffic and that has made it even worse! If your kid can't jump out of the car, go to a parking spot and park the car. Don't leave it in the middle of the driveway! Kids with casts or crutches shouldn't have to tromp through snow to get into the school!
2. People who make my Little Diva cry! I shouldn't be angry at a second grader, but this one girl gave her a best friend necklace, then took it back the next day, and gave it to someone else. I kept my cool and made LD feel better, but I felt like crying, too. Why are kids so mean?
3. Smart people who act like they are stupid. Enough said on that one.
4. People who act like they know everything! (I don't even know everything!) People who won't admit they are wrong. It's hard, but even I can do it.
5. Rude people. Man, use some tact!
6. Loosing a big bunch of money, and all the credit cards, and id. Ugh. I feel sick. Hubby lost his wallet yesterday, and it had all of our cash, which we need for food and bills. It had our credit card, a work credit card, and the debit card that is for our health care. His driver's license. Everything. I personally know some people who would be like "$400? Go to the bank and get more money out. No big deal." Yeah, big deal to us! We're poor. That's just a fact of life. I stay home, and it makes us rich in love, but money is tight around here. Plus, Hubby woke me up at 4 a.m. looking for his wallet, and I'm tired. Tired and worried and cranky are never a good combo!

I just have to say this weekend better not go like this! It had better be nice. (not the weather, I know that's going to be crappy). The vibes better be nice! If you pray, pray we find that stupid wallet before I go crazy and have to spend my entire life knitting hats after I rip out all of my hair!

I found the wallet! Thanks to who the heck ever said the prayer or magic words or what the heck ever worked! I swear it was sitting right where Hubby and I already looked. I was done looking but as I was getting a biscuit to eat with my lunch ... There it was. I am so totally relieved. Thanks for the good vibes, all!!

February Alongs

I feel very boring lately. Not bored .... boring. Hope that's not true, but I need some sunshine and it's supposed to get into the single digits, or below zero for the next week! Urgh! It all makes me want to hibernate.

Well, it is the first of February, and I have a February KAL that I joined. I started the Topi. I started it over and over and finally got it! It's about 4" in diameter right now.

Here are some pics. That is my Swamp Thing Yarn that I dyed for the January DAL. hehe Of course there is another SoapSock sitting there, too. I've been having one of them OTN all of the time. I swear, I'm going to put them on my shop as soon as I get a minute!








The other thing for this month is the UFO 2007 Along, that I'm part of. I am working on LD's Broadripple Socks that I started in October or November. Yes, I am too lazy to go see when.

The spot where I picked up stitches for the gusset is awful! It's a mess, but LD likes it and wants it done. I should go back and redo it, but I don't know if I will. It's left over yarn, and if I just get my rear in gear, they'll be done and that's all she really wants anyway. Then, maybe I should finish the last Jaywalker sock that I started even before these socks.


Dinner's in the slow cooker, and the smell is driving me crazy! It smells so good. A roast with onions, celery, carrots, and potatoes. Mmmmm.


Well, time to go figure out if I want to rip out that gusset and redo (like I should), or maybe I'll just knit on that hat for a while.

Thanks for all of the nice comments from my last few posts. If I have your email, I've probably sent you a thanks or some kind of reply, if not, then thank you! :)

Another Motley Post

WooHoo! I got to go meet some friends for knitting this morning. One of them said "I look forward to this all week. If I have to work on a Wednesday, I'm so bummed." Yep! Yep! I know! I get to just sit there and knit and listen and talk. I love it!

I finished this soap last night and thought "Oh no, I need a project for knitting with friends" (Carrie, we need a name for our little group). So, when I got there I casted on another soap for my shop. This pink and brown one is for me, though. I'm not sure if the pink is wool, or wool ease (which won't felt) So, I will use it and see if it felts and if it does I'll be able to use the pink for soaps that are for sale.




The last close up pic is of a soap that I knitted that we've been using. It's all felty and the soap lasts forever! My kids wash their hands more, too, because it's cool soap. See, no more stitches.



Speaking of kids, when your 8 yr. old asks you to wind up her knotted, tangled, white, fuzzy acrylic yarn; don't wear black jeans and a black sweatshirt when you do it. I tried to take a picture of my white fuzziness, but it just wouldn't show it well enough.







I also finished the baby genius burp cloths. They are so cute, but I hope the new mommy uses them, and loves them! I also hope the hats aren't too small. Hopefully she'll get to wear them for a while, and hopefully she'll love her blankie.




Here's what I'll be starting tomorrow, though. I picked this pattern, and I'll be using my latest hand-dyed wool. Looking at the pictures of it when it was a tangles mess, it should be called swamp thing. LOL.

I'll talk about the UFO along, too, because I have chosen what the first finished UFO of February will be. Tomorrow I'll share all. (You know tomorrow means next time I find time to post, right?) hehe

So, do you ever have problems with your paragraphs not having spaces between them when you post? As I type, there are spaces, when I preview, no spaces. That's what's up with the colorful paragraphs. I can't seem to think of another way to separate them.

Well, I guess I'd better think of things other than yarn and knitting for a little bit, then I have to go get the kids. We're going to the post office to mail out squares for the blanket that I spoke of earlier. Maybe I'll get some yarn in the mail. Wouldn't that be cool? As if I ever think of anything but yarn! Hahaha!

**Well, looks like my paragraphs sorted themselves out this time. hehe**

Four Square

Hey, everybody! Thanks for the great comments on my giftie post. I still can't believe I got such nice surprise gifts.

Well, I knitted up four squares for what I think is a good cause. They are all ready to mail out, and I have the address, so they'll be going soon. I know they are just squares of yarn, but they are soft, and they were knitted with great thoughts of healing and of love for another woman who is in pain. I wish I could help everyone, everywhere. Wouldn't being a philanthropist be great? Just giving away help and money to those who need it? I'd love that.

I don't know how the pictures are going to look on here. It was so hard to get the texture to show up. They are 7 inch square each. I thought I had the gauge right, but I had to add some crochet to the edges. My gauging skills suck. As do my pic. taking skills. Oh well, I try.

I used to be a perfectionist, but my kids have cured me of that. It's hard to be perfect when you're human, and when I try too hard, I end up yelling all of the time .... and that's no fun! LOL

I am almost done with the baby genius burp cloths, too. I'm on the last one. There are also four of them. So, I've made the baby that's coming: a purple blankie, a mint green hat, a bright pink hat, a blue, yellow, pink, and green burp cloth. I should make something that's orange, and the kid will be all set. hehe

Well, I wonder what I'll start on next .... I have WIPS and UFOs, and a list of things that I want to knit. I have also joined a KAL for February. There is a really neat button that I'll put up here soon. (Lazy!) Of course, I'll be talking about UFOs, and doing the f. f. or f. (finish, fix, or frog)

I don't think I'll do the dishes until later. Haha, we finally got an oven, and the water heater is messing up. Hopefully all it needs is a part (whatchamacallit heating thingie) which Hubby is going to replace after work. I want the little bit of hot water for a shower. The dishes will still be there. Unfortunately. I could do the laundry, since we wash in cold, but I probably won't do that until tomorrow.

So .. I guess that means I need to go vacuum and knit. :)

Have a great Monday, all y'all!

Surprise Gifts for me!

Another quick post. Thanks for reading all of my crazy blabbering!

Wow! Look at these! Yesterday, my friend Carrie brought this bag to me! Her mom made it for me. Isn't that awesome? Ein (our weirdo dog) seems to love it. She won't leave it alone. It has pockets for needles on the inside and outside. It'll be just right for carrying a few projects when I go places. Instead of the huge bags I usually carry.

One of the third grade teachers at LD's school and I talk a lot about knitting. She was actually one of my teachers when I was in school. She is the teacher who lets the kids knit while she reads out loud, and one day a week they can stay in from recess to knit. So many boys and girls are learning great things because of her. Well, she just finished her first sweater, and I was admiring it, and she told me she had something for me, if I wanted it.

A sweater kit! It's cotton and gorgeous. This will be my first sweater. I told her, in about three years when I finish it, I'll come show her. LOL. I am finishing some other things first, but I'm pretty excited to knit this.

I kept saying, 'Are you sure?' and she's like 'I'll never knit it, it should be used.' Wowee!

I need to run, I have tons of stuff to do before getting the kids. Have a great weekend, everybody!

p.s. blogger is dumb, and it better not mess up my blog! :)

They Made Me!

Blogger made me switch! They wouldn't let me moderate my comments unless I updated! I have new Blogger, but I'm a little upset that they forced me. I hope my blog is ok! Watch out, Rhoda, you're next! LOL!

I have a real post .... when I find time. I got two nice knitting gifts yesterday! Surprise ones!! I'll tell you about them soon .... with pics .... promise!

Time to think.

Thank you for all of the comments. hehe. I really do love my oven. Yes, I am a geek, and proud of it! LOL! The kids and I made Chocolate Chocolate Chip cookies yesterday, after school. If you love chocolate, try these. Wow! They are chocolatey! No, they are not good for you, but oh well, sorry! I got the recipe off of Major Knitter's knit blog. Then, we doubled it, it made 4 dozen big cookies!

See, larjmarj, I make a mess baking, too. This doesn't even show the chocolate dough that flew all over while mixing, or the dirty dishes everywhere.

Then, the dog, who walks around with her nose in the air sniffing if there is any chocolate around, stole a cookie! We had to put them on the top of the microwave, because she kept trying to snatch cookies off of the table! She has never tried to snatch other food. I guess she doesn't care that dogs aren't supposed to have chocolate.



I also did some kool aid dyeing. We have a different microwave than the one we had when I used to do a lot of dyeing, and it is much quicker and I made a boo-boo, and felted my yarn a little! SP said "Wow, how'd you make dreads with your yarn?" He was impressed, but I was feeling pretty dumb. I boiled my yarn! I pulled it all apart and saved it. It is a little fuzzy, but I don't care. It's my yarn, and I am knitting a green hat for the February Green Hat Knit-a-long at Get Stitchy!


Since I did some Kool-Aid Dyeing, I need to post the pics over at Get Stitchy for the January Kool-Aid Dye-a-long. I have become such a joiner!

Well, I am going to knit one more square and find out where to send them. Then, I have to finish the baby genius burp cloths, because I think the baby shower will be in February. I have to decide what UFO I'm going to work on in February, too. I will have those UFOs all gone by the end of 2007, or maybe even before. Finish, fix, or frog!

Once again, no title has come to me. Hmm. Time to think.

Knit On! No Tink!

I can bake!

Or I could bake, if I had time, ambition, etcetera. hehe We got our oven/range! Yay! It's not easy cooking for five on the stove top and a large toaster oven. I doctored the photos so that you don't feel bad for me with my ugly, old kitchen!

The first thing I did was make a cake. We had big pizzas last night and we're going to make cookies ASAP.

I need to come up with some great recipes now! I want to bake yummy stuff!

Well, I have to go get my teeth cleaned. I hate the dentist. The only thing I like about it is that everyone loves my knitting, and they always take time to check it out.

I've been knitting some squares for Jen to make into an afghan. I had a skein of Caron Simply Soft in a nice soothing blue, and I think this will be the best use for it. Sad things happen everyday. Nothing will fix the hurt, but hopefully this will help some.

Guess I'd better go get ready to let those gloved, masked people dig around in my mouth. Yuck! They just called, as I was typing this to see if I can come in an hour early. Sorry ~ no way! I made this appointment 6 months ago. Plus, I need to shower and have some breakfast first!

Thanks to everybody for the nice comments you leave! I need to go read some blogs. I'm having withdrawals. Yesterday, though, I was hanging out here and here. I have a real problem with yarn, and talking about yarn, and reading about yarn, and ...... LOL

Feeling Better

Thank you for all of the well wishes. I've been resting, and drinking tea, and last night I knitted. My getting sick even got Cindy's mom to delurk. LOL! She is so sweet! If I didn't send you an email to say thanks, I'm saying it right now. I think all the comments helped! Now the sore throat needs to leave and I'll be a-ok!

I didn't knit Tuesday, or Wednesday ~ at all! Last night I finally felt like I had some energy, so I knitted up two soapsocks for my SIL and BIL. I'll have to mail them out to them. They wanted a certain kind of soap, and they're smaller than the soaps I usually use. Then, I casted on for a variegated orange (handdyed by me) and brown one. (No pic, sorry)
I have about six more soaps to knit, and then I need to update my etsy shop.



I forgot I wanted to tell all y'all about this thing that happened when we were at the mall.
SP and MM were telling us how this girl came up to SP and said "You're gorgeous!"
So, The Don, my hubby says "And then her dog tried to bite you.."
and we're all like "What dog?"
and he says "Her seeing eye dog." Yeah, he thinks he's a comedian. No offense to anyone who needs a seeing eye dog, The Don just has a weird sense of humor.
Girls and Women hit on SP a lot ~ It is Scary! He's just a baby! He's not even 17 yet! At least this time the girl said it, and then ran away! I think she was like 14, or something. Way too young!

My kids have a half day of school today, so even though I just dropped them off, I have to go right back and get them. I am so glad it's Friday, though. Hopefully, I'll have some time to see what everyone blogged about this week, while I slept. Thank God for Hubby. He cooked dinner and did it all, while I zombied out on the couch all week! I think it's my turn to cook tonight!

Have a great weekend that is full of wooly knitted goodness!

p.s. See my new countdown thingy? I can't wait for summer!!

Ugh.

No knitting group for me today. If anyone wants me, I'll be huddled on the couch with lots of blankies, and the big warm robe Cindy's mom gave me, holding onto my knitting, 'cuz I'm just too achy to knit. Thank you, Cindy's mom that robe saved me last night, I was having such bad chills!

I Hate Thinking Of Titles :)

Hey, thanks for all the comments on SP, and Playing the Mom card. LOL! He's not even mad at me anymore. Four more weeks is a lot better than what they were predicting before surgery!


I had quite a knitting weekend. We had to go to the big city for some shopping. The mall, and any other stores, besides the grocery store, are almost 40 miles off. I got to knit in the car! Yay! MIL drove, and the six of us had a fun time. Two of the kids needed new shoes. How do they grow so fast?

Lucky MM, when school started he wanted slip ons that have the band the Sex Pistols on them. His Granny likes to help out and buy some school stuff. Since shoes are so expensive, we're happy to let her! She wouldn't buy the ones he wanted, because they said sex on them. LOL. Well, they were on sale, and the only pair they had left were his size, so I bought them. (Relax, everybody, it's a band!)

I am afraid he's probably going through another growth spurt, though, because he's been even more hungry than usual. That's pretty hungry!
Whenever he does that, he shoots up a half of foot, or so!

I should rename this blog Arleta's Little Projects. It seems like everything I've been knitting is small. Baby Genius Cloths, Soap Socks, Baby hats. I have two pair of socks on the needles that I have the urge to work on, too.

I love the little baby hat. It is so cute! I don't know if I'm putting the ears on it. Lazy me! I think little kitty-cat ears would be really cute. I might even knit a bigger one. It's a fun pattern. The pictures show it on one of LD's baby dolls.

I love the way the cotton is zig-zagging and pooling on the baby burp cloths. I want to make a couple more of them. I have some yellow and blue, so that would make the purple pinwheel blankie, a mint green hat, a pink hat, and one pink, one green, one blue, and one yellow Baby Genius Burp Cloths. I love a variety!

The orange dishcloth, and felted soap are for my best-friend's birthday. Now, I just have to come up with a really cute way to wrap them. I'm going to take her out to dinner sometime next week. We're going to go to a place where we worked when we were teenagers. It has been sold, and I think it'll be fun to see all of the changes it has gone through since then. Hopefully, this won't be the day she checks my blog. Trust me, the way things usually go for me this will be that day!

Well, that was what I did this weekend. Now, I have to go do all of the laundry, and dishes that I ignored. Then, (or maybe instead ~ LOL) I'm going to go knit!

Hope you had a knit-filled weekend, too!

Delurk!

Hey there. I heard it is (or maybe last week was) delurking week. Well, it is here right now. I stole this pic from tiennie knits. So, delurk already! :)

Play The Mom Card!

First of all, thank you, nice people for the comments on LD's panta, and my last few posts. You're all so nice!

Ok, so I played the mom card today. I don't do it that often. I mean, I let the kids draw on their walls, I said no the the permanent markers, though. I let SP have cool colors in his hair. I even dyed it for him! It'll grow out. The kids have two jobs. Do their best at school, and be good people. (polite, no drugs, etc) But, today, I did it. I put my foot down. Sorry, kid. Mommy's still the boss.

SP went back to the surgeon today for his cast removal and check up. The surgeon decided, after studying the new x-rays, that SP could have a walking cast. Yay! No more crutches. Well, as the Dr. is talking to us, SP says "I get one of the removable ones, right?" Dr. W. starts to say yes, but then he looked at me, shaking my head, "No". He changed what he was saying real quick! hehe

SP is not very happy with me. Which turns him into a pouty two year old. When the nurse asked him what color cast he wanted, he said it didn't matter. She said "How about orange?" Thinking he'd say no, but he said whatever, doesn't matter. Jeeshe! So, I answered for him and he has a black cast with orange stripes. Pretty cool.

We had a fun time on the way there, joking and talking about what he wants to do in the next few years. He'll be a senior next year! Yikes! He gets over being mad at me quickly, though. I wanted to say sure, give him what he wants, but I want him safe, and sound. Wrapping his foot in fiber glass for the next four weeks sounds good to me. I told him, he's lucky that I can't wrap him, and his brother, and sister in bubble wrap! Just to keep them safe, ya know.

Oh, yeah, I did knit in the waiting room. They've been so quick to call us in, though, that I don't get much done. I knitted while they took his x-rays, too. See, this is a knit blog.

Here are the pics blogger wouldn't show before!

This is what I did on Saturday. Of course, I'm on to different things now. A different soap, and well, that's all. hehe.

See the first pic, that's where the panta has been since November. Well, it is done now, but I don't think it's as wide as I'd like it to be. LD seems to like it, but she still has to wear a hat outside. Oh well, live and learn. Label left over yarn, or you won't know what you're using!

The Baby Genius Cloth is farther along. That soap in the pic is done and the new one is light blue with a brown design. Nice, even if I do say so myself.

I haven't had a lot of knitting time since last week. Kids sure can keep ya busy.

Thank you all for the comments on my A-B-C post.

Do you remember the hand jive thing...

A-B-C Together-

Up together-

Down together-

Back together-

Front together-

One More Time--.

I've been trying to teach LD those things. She doesn't seem too interested yet. We use to slap hands together on the playground, and on bus trips. Fun days, man!

This was going to be really quick. It's past my bedtime! I just got tagged again. hehe. I am like the popular kids. Rhoda tagged me, cuz I'm her favorite, even if she says it's because I've been tagging her over and over. Hehehe. Thank you and I'm playing along!

Okay, so:

The Page 123 Meme

1. Grab the book closest to you.

2. Open to page 123, look down to the 5th sentence.

3. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog.

4. Include the title and the author's name.

5. Tag 3 People.

I kept driving. "Where are you going?" Lionel asked. "There should be a travel agency around here somewhere," I said. ~~ Terry McMillan from the book Waiting To Exhale

I'm not tagging anyone. :) I've been hitting people with tags left and right, and I don't want to ruffle any feathers. hehe

Well, the computer is right by my bookcase. Let me tell you, it is full and overflowing! It needs painted or something! I love Terry McMillan. Now, if I just had more time to read.

It's late. I have kids to wake up and take to school first thing in the morning, and then I'm meeting Carrie to go knit! Yay!

Hope everyone has a great day tomorrow, and has lots of knitting time!

A-B-C Together.....

Zippianna tagged me for the abc meme. It's really weird how popular I feel when I get tagged. hehe. But, then I'm almost afraid that people I'll tag won't like it. Weird!

A-B-C Meme

A- Available or single? Nope. I've been married since 1992. I heart my Hubby!

B- Best Friend? Lisa. Lisa is my bestest-best friend, more like a sister. We met in 5th grade. She makes me laugh like no one else in the entire world can.

C- Cake or Pie? Ooh, that's a hard one. Cake, but my Hubby gets the icing.

D- Drink of Choice? I drink a lot of coffee! A lot! More than I should, I'm sure.

E- Essential Item? Hubby would say yarn. hehe. The other day he said "You must like yarn a lot." Um.. Yeah! It was funny.

F- Favorite Color? Orange. Look around here, it's pretty easy to see. :)

G- Gummi Bears or Worms? Mmmm. I think they're both about the same to me. I like them.

H- Hometown? Small town, usually boring, but safe, if you can survive the gossip mill!

I- Indulgence? Eating out. I love restaurants. (not so good for weight loss, though)

J- January or February? That's a really hard one, Feb. is Jordan's b-day. Jan. is Lisa's. But I'd much rather it were July. I like it hot.

K- Kids and names? 3 kids, 2 boys and a girl: Jordan, Malcolm, and Arleta. She's the 3rd in a line of sassy girls named Arleta. LOL!

L- Life is incomplete without? My family.

M- Marriage Date? August 22.

N- Number of Siblings? 3 brothers, and 2 sisters. They are all older than I am. My nieces and nephews are closer to my age. My mom was 41 when she had me!

O- Oranges or apples? Oranges. They're orange and yummy. Apples are ok, but they are more available here, so oranges seem special to me.

P- Phobias/Fears? Something happening to someone I love.

Q- Favorite Quote? I have so many. It's hard to choose just one. Check out this quote spot. It does have pop ups, though.

R- Reason to Smile? My kids make me smile. When they are getting along and being good, anyway.

S- Season? Summer. I love summer, and sunshine, and the beach!

T- Tag three people! Ok, How about Charles, Rhoda, and Christina. If you've done this one, or want to pass, don't feel bad. I'll be ok with it! I'd really like to see Carrie's answers, too. If you feel like playing along, Carrie. hint*hint. I did only tag 5 of 6 in the weird meme, so it evens out.

U- Unknown Fact About Me? I just did that 5 things one, and that was hard.....Um.....I shouldn't watch scary stuff alone. Especially at night, but I do it anyways, then I stay awake listening to every little noise with a pounding heart!

V- Vegetable you hate? I used to hate peas, but I've found out that fresh, or even frozen ones are ok. I hate split pea soup, though. Ugh!

W- Worst habit? I bite my nails. Bad. Right down til they hurt. Yuck.

X- X-Rays you've had? My back, for scoliosis. (Did I spell that right?) My spine is all curvy and twisted. (There's an unknown fact about me!) Teeth, of course.

Y- Your favorite food? I love cheese, and chocolate, and fruit, and salads. Ooh, Seafood, and ... I guess you could just say any food. Hehe

Z- Zodiac? Libra. The scales of justice, that must be why I'm so concerned with fairness, but I can never make up my mind!

OK! Here's what I knitted this weekend, after the undecorating was done. I finished LD's Panta that I started in November. If I'm not careful I'll go through my UFOs before the year is up. LOL!

I knitted another soap sock and part of a baby genius spit up cloth from Mason-Dixon knitting.

All of that knitting was actually Saturday, I didn't do much on Sunday. I woke up with one of those headaches that make you wish you could rip your head right off. Hubby did the dishes then took LD to the park while I went back to bed. They went to the store and got supplies for turkey tacos (Yum!) then made dinner. See why I love my Hubby?

The park, in winter, in Michigan! It was in the 40s, with sunshine today. Are there really people who think global warming is made up? I know I'm pure evil, but I am loving this weather! The norm here at this time of year is below zero Fahrenheit! With snow that goes up to your armpits! I might exaggerate a little. Only a little, though.

Edit:

Haha, Joke's on me. It's Monday the 8th now, and it snowed last night. I had to scrape ice off my car this morning! Yuck! Of course, it's melting now. The sun is out, thank goodness.

Well, my pictures won't show up, so I am going to go knit! Pictures tomorrow if blogger will play nice! Hope you get to sit and knit!

Just a quick little explanation of my edit on the last post.

I love my MIL and SIL. I was saying I was being selfish and bratty for caring so much about what happened to a gift I gave. Yes, I know when you give a gift, the person who receives it can do whatever they want with it. That's why I was saying I was being selfish. I was very happy and excited that they liked it so much. I hope that makes more sense. More later ~ I've been crazy busy!

I hope you enjoy what's left of your weekend!

p.s. Does anyone have any thoughts on the new blogger and switching over thing??

Tag! I'm it.

Hi, everybody! Quick post. I have to get back to my knitting. If I am a serial commenter on your blog, and you're worried about me, don't be. :) I've just been snuggled on the sofa all weekend knitting like a knitaddict! I'll read some of my favorites soon. Do you see my insane list of faves? It's there on the sidebar. Thank God for Bloglines!

Ok, So I was tagged by Christina. I have to come up with 5 things about myself that others might not know. This was hard, but I feel like one of the chosen ones. :)

5 things about me others might not know

1. I am afraid to change to the new blogger! Should I be? Somebody tell me if I should just switch. I like my blog. What if it gets all messed up? Leave me comments with what you think! Please.
2. I can crochet. I used to do that all the time, but the knit-bug bit me.
3. I used to collect angels. I just got so many for gifts, I had to stop. They started to freak me out a little!
4. When I was a little girl, and my mom made me learn to knit, I hated it. Hated! I hated yarn, even ~gasp!~ wool. Don't blame me, I was just a baby. I didn't know any better!
5. I believe in magic. Real magic, witches, fairies, all of it.

I think I'm supposed to tag 5 people, but I'm too lazy. Plus, what if they don't want to? So, what do you think will happen if I skip the tag? Will I be "it" forever? What is "it" anyway? If you want to do this one, leave me a comment saying so, so I can come find out things about you!

I also got tagged by Whimsical. She's been stuck in bed resting her owies on Doctors orders, so she didn't know I'd already done the weird things meme. Go read hers, though, and send her some well wishes. She did get to go on a vacation, so hopefully that means she'll be up and on the computer more often and soon! Charles just tagged me, too! I feel so popular!

Once again, thanks for the nice comments about my knitting. I got what must be the most meaningful compliment today. My MIL and SIL don't feel about handmade items the way I do. I think if someone spends time, and effort, and love making something it is special. They....don't. Well, last time I was at MIL's I peaked around looking for the soap in a sock I gave her. After I thought that maybe she cut the wool off and other selfish bratty things, I saw it in the shower. **EDIT** I meant I thought selfish, bratty thoughts, not that my MIL is selfish and bratty! OOPS! ** Heck yeah, I looked in there for it! **Because I can be selfish and Bratty!! LOL!** Then, today, she asked Hubby if I could make her another when the soap was gone! AND~BIL and SIL want some too! They must be good if they want them! Woo-Hoo!!

Hubby discovered knitcasts, and has been downloading different ones for me to try. So, I've been plugged in to the mp3 player, and knitting away!

Time to go finish something. Pictures of what I've been working on soon!

One down....How many to go?

Ok! I got one UFO that sat for an entire month done! Look at the picture from yesterday, there is one in November that looks just the same. LOL. To answer Jeri's question about the pattern: Here is a link to the one I used. I did fiddle with it a bit and I added stitches to the cast on and to the thumb. They fit pretty well, but they look really long and narrow. Good thing my hands are long and narrow. Next time, I might even add a couple more stitches, and a little length in between the cuff and where the thumb starts. I used Lion Brand Fisherman's Wool that I dyed with kool-ade. Now I am going to choose one of the other (older) UFOs and get to work on it!

Speaking of UFOs, I got the little pic in my sidebar, so now I just have to figure out how to link the pic to Kat! Jeeze!

I also wanted to say to everyone thank you for the nice comments about the pinwheel baby blanket I knitted. And for the votes of confidence for the UFO finishing. *hugs* to you all!

I started the pinwheel in October. I could have finished it sooner, but it was such a great while visiting knitting project, that I saved it for while I was out and about. I used Bernat Baby Coordinates Sweet Stripes yarn, with the Coordinating solid color for the ruffle.





I also finished another soap in a sock. The orange kool-ade wool and black one. I am not complaining, but all I have left is the blue striped one and the one I just finished. I took them to knitting yesterday to show off to Carrie and she bought them. :) Isn't that great? Thanks Carrie!

So, when I left knitting, I went to the store and bought some more cotton yarn. LOL! Give me a couple a bucks and guess where you'll find me. I'm going to knit some Baby Genius Burp Cloths from Mason Dixon Knitting for the baby who gets the pinwheel.

Then, I started another soap sock that is the peacock color and some green blue koolade dyed (by me) wool. I am totally addicted to knitting these little sock soaps.

I was looking at my list of WIPs and UFOs, and I saw a lot of things that I've promised to LD. I think my next one will be one of the ones that are for her.

I'm sure I had more to say, but I have to run if I want to get anything (like some knitting) done before going to pick up those kids from school!

Happy knitting to all!

UFO Resurrection 2007

Kat has come up with a great idea. It is the UFO Resurrection of 2007! I am going to join and get rid of these UFOs once and for all! I have a whole sofa full of more than 12, so I am set and ready.
A different Kat designed the button. I will try to add it to my sidebar with a link to the post where Kat explains it all. Wish me luck, I haven't tried that trick on my blog yet. (If you have any tips, I'll take them)

Here are the rules that I copied from Kat's post.


The Rules
1. Each month in 2007, find a UFO (unfinished object). This makes a total of twelve (12) for the year. You do not need to have a list of all twelve at the beginning of the year - you can go month by month if you'd like.

2. You have two options for that UFO:
a. Work on it. You don't have to finish it that month, if it's something big, but it must be added into your rotation of "active" projects. A token row or two does not count. ;-)
b. Frog it. If you don't want to work on it anymore, rip it out and move on.

3. Post on your blog each month (or comment if you don't have a blog)(at katwithak's blog I guess) about the project you're resurrecting.

4. Everyone who finishes will be entered into a prize drawing. And even if you don't win anything, you'll have twelve fewer languishing projects making you feel guilty!

So, here are some pictures of my UFOs and even a FO!

On my sofa I have many UFOs, I have listed them before. There are actually a couple more added, but I'll tell all y'all about them, month by month. There are more than 12. They actually fill the sofa. See me blushing?

The first one I am getting back to work on is my mitten. I've had one done since December 1st, I think. The other one was started the first day, and that was it! I'm going to finish it. Tomorrow or so, I bet. (hehe ~ We'll see won't we.)

Then, here are some pics of the soaps in socks I am making for my etsy shop. I am loving making these. They are fun, and I can try out patterns on a small scale. Three done, one close, and eight or so to go.

Bah- Bahm-Ba-Da! (That's me tooting my own horn)

Here is my pinwheel! The blankie is done. All the ends woven and everything. Except for measuring the finished size. The pinwheel blanket is my first FO of 2007. Sorry if the pics aren't great. The finished project is, I swear!

The last picture shows it with a little hat I knit for the baby, and the pattern and yarn for another little hat. Can a kid ever have enough hats?

I did say that I'd give a review of my KnitPicks Options, after I finished the blanket. So far, I love them. I haven't had any problems with the set, except that it should have more needles with it! (I need a 13 for a pattern. hehe) They should also have a little adapter so that you can connect the cords together. My friend Carrie has a needle set that does that. I love the flexibility of the cord especially! That's the best. I've been using them for my soaps, doing the magic loop with them. I love the magic loop, and this flexy cord is perfect for it.

I also wanted to say "Thank You!" to everyone who left such nice comments on my last few posts. My mom was so thrilled with all of the nice things everyone had to say about the puppets.

I am going to actively work on those UFOs, and WIPs. I've never joined any knit alongs because I'm always afraid I won't finish, or I'll let somebody down (if there were a trade involved or something), but this one is for me. I am going to do it! I'm going to be one of those people who have project numbers in the single digits! LOL!

Time to go do stuff, and then knit! Tomorrow the kids finally go back to school, and I'm hoping to get a little "me" (knitting) time.

Hope you all get some knitting time, too.

a little p.s. Congrats to g-girl on her 100th post! And go see her little niece, what a cutie!