I'm so excited!!!!

I got my Ravelry invite! Holy sh*t, I am so excited it's ridiculous. Like I don't have enough UFO's (unfinished objects) lying around the house already? And my wool stash is getting big. I need to start finishing stuff and dealing with the glut of wool and my depleted bank account.

Right after I finish photographing my efforts at a new leg finish on the latest pair of longies. And find funds to justify my new sigg bottle and 50 bucks of purewool on the way.

The Court of Appeal will just have to damn well wait for their documents, and I can start looking for those missing documents tomorrow.

zenstrong longies

Ta-dah! Here they are. Unblocked, of course. I never block anything until I wash it, and I had to photograph these the instant they came off the needles. I lurrrveeee them!

I finished them about 10 days ago, even uploaded the pics, then completely forgot to blog. Not that anyone's reading this thing, but you never know, someone could stumble on this page and think, 'what the heck happened to those longies she was going to make? I bet she made herself a scarf instead'. In fact, maybe even more than one person might read this. Dare to dream, I always say.

Anyway, these babies are so gorgeous. Heavy, beautiful drape, softer than you can believe, with a beautiful sheen. They are breathtaking.

And they are too big.

Sob. Maybe she can wear them once she's walking, and I can roll them up. But that probably won't be til Christmas. Oh well, they were fun to knit.

Another FO here - Paton's Wool - just some green picky pants with the eyelet garter cuff.

And a fish - that's the Blue Sky Cotton. So nice to work with.

I'm hating the Patons though. It's so pilly and their colours are starting to suck a lot.

Cute model though, eh?

I have 100% purewool coming though, I ordered 8 skeins in a co-op and paid Sept 11th so I'm hoping by the end of the month I'll have yummy wool to play with.

Quickie

I'm totally cheating - I should be working but instead am reading knitting blogs. I will totally tell DH tonight that I worked as much as I could today. But dammit, I just ripped my toenail off (not on purpose and &*$#)( did it hurt), and I'm taking a break. I have a factum to finish, including page numbering, copying, binding, etc. Plus a mediation brief on a file where I lost the documents. All of them. Yep.

So I did finish a project -

LTK picky pants in navy blue 100% wool from the sale bin. Gauge was a bit small so these are a snugger fit but they make baby happy. I also washed and lanolized my other wool today - that should definitely be done more than quarterly with a crawling kid. Man, they hide dirt well, the water was black! But I only had one real pair of longies, so I had to wait until I finished the blue ones.





The wool is just a worsted weight, I think I should stick to aran for dark colours, you can see her diaper underneath.

BUT I did the extended short rows option and they tuck nicely under her big belly so I guess I will stick with this version of the pattern, even though it means more stitches.



DD is definitely getting busier these days. Here she is demonstrating why I shouldn't assume all is well when she is quiet.





That's mud from the plant she was trying to eat.










And here's a pic Meredith took at Build a Bear Workshop on her highly commercial but totally delightful birthday party. It is included only because I look skinny in this photo LOL

Men.

OMG. I had to work this morning, and DH was home with baby for 5 hours. Not 15 hours, FIVE. Needless to say, as I was finishing up a bail hearing, I got a panicked phone call. "She wants her mom" says Mr. I Can Handle Anything Except a Crying Baby. "It's not fair to her that you're gone". I tell him to bring her to court, I can run out and nurse her (thank God the Crown and JP are moms too). He is freaking out to the point that he can't even process this information. Sweet baby Jesus how am I supposed to earn a living when I can't go to work without the man having an anxiety attack?

Note to self: Leave DH home with baby more often. Sheesh.

Here's a pic of DD wearing her cabled hat I made. Now if only she would keep the damned thing on her head. She's stretching the crap out of it. She is incredibly persistent, though, she'll take it off 100 times in a row. I checked. She actually lifts her hands up to her head to take it off before I've even put it back on. Smarty-pants.

I finished the Zenstring longies as well as another hat, must post pics soon. I haven't even tried the longies on her, they're so nice. I always have a part skein of wool left after longies, so she gets a matching hat, too.

I am going to make a sweater and another cable hat for her fall ensemble, as well as a hat for my sweet niece. Oh, and a baptism outfit.

Obviously I need to practice less law and knit more. I wonder how DH will feel about that.