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Holy crap - we're really in for it now!

See? I still know how to knit!

Here is my ISE scarf in progress, the Branching Out pattern from Knitty.  Seeing as I have two more weeks to complete this bad boy and get it in the mail, I better step to it!

The picture doesn't do the yarn justice... I'll have to take another in natural light so you can see the variations of red - gorgeous. 

I just want Me back...

Ah yes, another couple of weeks and no post, no knitting, nada.  I'm a loser...

Truthfully, I wasn't feeling all that great with about a week's worth of low-grade temps and vertigo, AKA, labrynthitis.  Doesn't that sound all magical and mystical??  It's not.  It sucks.  And to top it off, the medicine that helps with the whole room-spinning thing made me very sleepy, so in a world where I can't afford to be more tired than I already am, I couldn't take the medicine.  Thus, I continued to feel like crap, all while trying to run my normal life.

Things are better now, much more steady at least, but I yearn to feel like my old self, the one that used to have energy and charisma and was able to keep all the balls in the air (or at least knit them into something cool)...  Where did that girl go?  Some days I don't even recognize the person staring back at me in the mirror.

You know, we all grow up, become adults, start families, have careers, etc., because it all falls into the timelines we call our lives.  Somewhere along the way though, it's very possible to lose your sense of self to the point where you can't remember the person you used to be before all this responsibility smacked you in the face.  Well I'd like to have the old me back, thank you very much, no matter how selfish that may seem.  Is there a way to do this?

I hope to find out... and find her.

Life is good.

It's a sunny, beautiful day.

I went to a spinning class this morning.

I've had a shower.

The girls are both napping.

Laundry is done.

My needles and yarn await me.

Life is good.

ISE Redo

After messing up the pattern several times and not being able to find my place due to all the YOs, I've abandoned the Lace Ribbon Scarf for my ISE pal.  I just do not have the time nor the attention span right now to deal with a 24-row pattern repeat that alternates halfway... so, I've switched to Branching Out from Knitty.  Simple.  Beautiful.  And so gorgeous in that "Poppies" colourway.

Pics to come soon...

IGK = Instant Gratification Knit!

I made the Anthropologie shrug last week out of some leftover Blue Sky Organic Cotton:

 

Yes, I know it's supposed to be a capelet, but I'm not much for single-button sweaters, so mine is a shrug.  And yes, I know it's supposed to be reverse stockinette stitch, but I happen to like stockinette better so I seamed it inside-out so I can wear it like this...

Here's a blurry front photo, *gasp* unblocked:

It was nice being able to have a gratuitous knit for a change - and the yarn is soooooo soft.  Now... back to that scarf.

In lieu of knitting progress...

here's a gorgeous baby.

I was able to finish my quick-knit for last weekend, but being the photographer at events means... no pics of me.  I'll hopefully get one taken soon so I can show you what I made!

I have begun knitting my ISE project - and loving the gorgeous yarn.  The fingering weight... eh.  Not so fun.  But the end result will so be worth it!

Center-Pull Balls?? Check!

Last night I wound my yarn for my ISE project and a quick-knit I'm trying frantically to whip up for this weekend (yeeeaahhh, this weekend!).  Big sis helped with the winding and did a great job.  She kept asking me "Mama, you make somefin for me?!" - I kept explaining to her - not right now... but soon!

Guess I better start looking for projects... oy.

The yarn is here...

*click click*

It's time to cast on!

Yarn: Superwash Merino Wool in Poppies colourway

from:  laughingrat studio on Etsy

When in Texas...

A Texas spring is not truly experienced until you force your children to sit in a field of bluebonnets to have their pictures taken... but isn't it adorable?!  Now, the moment behind the picture... Although it looks as both of my sweet girls are gazing at the beauty of the flowers, the real story is that big sis is looking at the bluebonnet that lil sis just tore from the stem and is about to devour.  Don't believe me, you say?!

God I love them!!