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Well, today I am home with a sick baby.  For the moment, she happens to be asleep and so that means that I can update the blog.

Last night we ran the first load of dishes in the dishwasher… it was wonderful and exciting, and we even tried doing bottles and that worked as well.   This is going to be such a wonderful addition to our kitchen.  I haven’t yet moved dish drainers and bottle drainers off of the cupboards, but it will be a joyful time when I do.

Being ambitious today is just not going to happen, since I am rightfully at the beckon of a tiny screaming person.  I thought last night that she was getting better, but if her distress today is any indication of how she’s actually feeling then I’d say she’s doing about the same, but becoming more vocal about it.  I hope that she feels better soon, because she’s breaking my heart.

I finished another dishcloth this morning, furthering my plans of building an army of dishcloths to take over the world.  These ones are for my Mom… two more and then she should be pretty much set.  Then I will finish Sandra’s dishcloths (I think I have 3 more to go for hers).   Then I think I will make some more for us… since I’ve knitted us a grand total of one so far.  (Not that we overly need a lot of dishcloths now that we have a DISHWASHER!!!)

So incredibly happy about the dishwasher.

Crafty Plans

So… it’s no secret that I’m Miss. Crafty…. and that I love nothing more than pulling out my knitting needles or my sewing machine and making stuff all day… I thought I’d share some of the plans that I have for future items.

1.  Towel to Oven Door Attachemajigs

Sort of like these, but matching my kitchen.  These are so old fashioned, but do not mess with a good thing.  It’s going to be handy to not have our towels go walking away from where they are needed.

2.  Finishing Ryan’s Scarf

 

It looks sort of like this, but in brown.

3.  Hat, scarf, and mitts for myself.

Something cabley and beautiful.

4.  2 different pairs of longies for Mini-Duncan

This-ish.  But with great wool.  And by this-ish, I mean that I’m going to learn how to make them seam across the crotch instead of making them seperate legs that just connected in the middle.

5.  Several pairs of small person pajamas

6.  A new cover for Lems’ changing pad.  One that is brown and pink since that’s the colour scheme that we’re moving into for her room.

7.   Several used clothing quilts in various patterns

Currently looking for backings for these. I’m excited about using some of my favourite older clothing to make some warm snugglies.

I also have some orders that I have to work on for my store, which of course have to take precedent and are already in progress.   It’s going to be a GREAT crafting year :)

Finished the Sweater!

*#$@

I intended to do a proper update tonight, but I don’t have time now that I have spent the last 45 minutes ripping a sleeve off of a baby sweater.

Slacker

So I was a slacker last night/yesterday and didn’t do a blog post, but I have a good excuse – I swear!

I am finally working on the first arm of my first ever real garment (I’m not considering scarves, etc. to be real garments here).  This baby sweater is going to rock it old school.  Or at least, it’s going to be done soon!

I can’t wait to post pictures of my pretty… it’s made from Three Irish Girls’ colourway Florry, and sadly has a coordinating green stripe around the middle which I am hoping will be really cute regardless (I’m running out of Florry).  I’m really not sure why it’s taken me so long to move onto knitting things other than plain scarves.  I wouldn’t say that there’s anything particularly challenging about knitting a baby sweater (or an Irish Hiking Scarf with cables, or kids’ toques)… I was just afraid.

Does this mean that I will be knitting socks before the end of the year?  We shall see.

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