First off, the festive St. Patrick's Day pen was hard at work this morning!



My hands have been hard a work with knitting as well. I've finished one of the Simply Lovely Lace Socks and I have my lovely model Paisley to show them off!
The Baby Kimono from Interweave Knits is just creamin' along. I'll be finished it tomorrow at some point. I'm actually in a mad rush to get it done now because I just found out yesterday that my aunt is having a baby shower for my cousin next weekend (she's due via c-section April 10th). I was going to start one of the adorable little girl sweater patterns that I really want to do but they don't know the sex yet and there's no way I'd have time to finish it either. The kimono seemed pretty generic and still cute. I'm also going to whip up a pair of booties or socks to put with it. We are going up to Owen Sound this weekend to visit my family, so I think I'm going to go over there and personally deliver the gift myself since I won't be able to make it to the shower.
I guess my second sock will be on hold until I get this baby gift out of the way with, but luckily this sweaters knitting up quick. It seemed to take forever to get to the part where you divide for your fronts and back, good old knit stitch!! This sweaters proving to be a great "quick gift" project but very boring!

Well, I better be going now, my dear daughter some how got hold of a pen and is giving herself pen tatoos all over.

The weekend came and went and I'm all back on track with my lace sock again. I really don't have far to go before I can start the toe and I'm done the first sock. I can't wait to sew up the picot edge, they're going to look so cute!

We took Paisley to Gramma's on Saturday afternoon and we got all of Rhonda's magazine's out looking for blanket ideas and squares. Do you think we ended up find any blanket stuff? Nope! I was too distracted from all the other nice patterns I ended up finding. I now have about 6 baby sweaters that I really want to make. I've started one already just because it's all done in garter stitch and all in one piece and it will knit up quickly. It's going to be completely adorable when it's finished. We found it in Interweave Knits Summer 2005 . I don't have much of it knit up yet (3" or so) but when I get more of it done I will post a picture of it. It has a ribbon as a closure, but I was thinking maybe some toggles might be cool instead.

Now, I have something nice that I want to share with everyone....
Yesterday I was at work, and it was nearing the end of my shift. I just had a cranky customer complaining about something for about 15mins until he got his way. You know, it just knid of ruins your whole day when someone is like that! After he left and another customer was waiting for her photos, we started chatting a bit. We noticed the cute little St. Patrick's Day light up pens that we had sitting on the cash wrap. I told her how I was going to get one because my birthday is on St. Patty's Day. We talked a bit more and she ended up buying 2 pens while she waited. Then she handed me one of the pens and said "Here, one's for you, hope you have a Happy Birthday". I didn't really know what to say because it's not often that something like this happens, so I took the pen and said thank-you. Anyhoo, it just ended up making my day (well the whole 20 minutes that I had left to go). I guess I'm still thinking about it because I had to write about it! Working in customer service for as long as I have, my faith is now restored in for every bad customer there's a handful of great customers.

After ripping out the entire pattern (row 2) back, I thought "SUCCESS" I fixed the problem of the missed yarn over at the beginning of needle 2. Unfortunately now I think I have the case of the dropped stitch out of control. Take a look....
Just when I thought it would be smooth sailing for the rest of the sock!!! On a good note, I finished the gusset so hopefully I won't have to rip it as far back that I have to re-knit all of that again.


I don't have the yarn for my blanket yet, so maybe I'll start a baby sweater for my cousin who is due April 10th for now until I get my sock straightened out. I really want to try this Twist & Twirl baby sweater, it looks so adorable!

I thought of an idea for a blanket! I've never made a blanket before so I thought I'd do squares and why not intarsia squares?? I think I'm going to knit them 8" all squares.
I took a pictures of the diagram I drew, but the colours didn't come out that hot. I want to do a lime green, purple and yellow colour scheme. I can't wait to start it!!


We got a new couch and loveseat last week, so I haven't quite worked out my knitting spot yet so I keep moving around.
My simply lovely lace sock is coming along too, I've just finished the heel and I'm now onto the guesst. I haven't got a picture to show of it yet since it's in an akward stage to be photographed. I'll get one in after I'm done the guesset. :-)

A few pictures of the Family here too! Daddy doesn't get in too many pictures, so there's everyone except him.

I guess it's about time for a blog update! :-)

I've started the Simply Lovely Lace Socks, but I really haven't made too much progress. I've done a few more rows then this picture, but I have it on hold right now because one of the lace patterns didn't come through for some reason, I'm thinking maybe I didn't psso properly, instead I may have passed the yarn over instead. There's a small hole, but it's not like all of the others (nice and lacey like).

I've also almost finished a UFO from before Christmas. It's an earflap hat for Paisley. This is my second hat from the same pattern except I made Paisley's bigger. The first hat I made for my best friend's little boy and he's just over a year. I have one small beef with the hats though. I made Paisley's the size bigger, followed the pattern properly but it still seems small. It still needs an edge around it and the earflaps sewn on, maybe that will make a difference?? I guess I'll find out when it's all finished, but compared to the first one it seems like almost the same size.
I can't wait to get the ball rolling again, but for now I have the knitting blahhhs. Speaking of ball though... Instead of knitting tonight, I had my good friend Becky over for dinner. I made us spaghetti & meatballs, one of my hubby's fabulous recipes. Before he left for work this afternoon, he left me a recipe for the meatballs titled "Ron's Balls", just goes to show you what a character (I mean pervert) he is! *LOL* It makes me love him more though.

As I was surfing the net tonight I came across a countdown for St. Patrick's Day. I had to slap it up on my blog right away so I could be reminded daily by a cute (no evil) little leprechaun that I will be turning 25 on the 17th of March. *LOL* Anyway...it seemed very appropriate that I have it up on my blog. :-)

We were all up at the crack of dawn this morning getting everything ready to take our little (10 lb) kitten to the vet to get neutered today. Even though he needed to have it done, I still felt a little guilty that my Deuce would have some slight dicomfort and be a very unhappy kitty for a few days. Here's a picture of Deuce Pre-Op :
My mother-in-law Rhonda was nice enough to take Paisley & I to pick him up later in the afternoon (as the hubby needed the car for work) because the animal hospital was in Brantford (not too far away from the Hammer, but you need a vehical to get there). On our way home we ended up missing the on ramp back onto the 403 Eastbound and fate some how lead us to Paris, ON (only 6km away from Brantford) and right to Mary Maxim. Srange eh?? This was my first visit to the store and I was so overwhelmed, I didn't even know where to look (actually everywhere I looked there was yarn). So, I just followed Rhonda around, right to the sock yarn. We eventually ended up over at the dk yarn section though because the pattern that she found for me to do gave me the option to do both sportweight & sock weight yarn and since I did my Olympic socks on worsted weight we thought that it would be a good idea to work up to sock weight yarn by doing the sport weight next. We didn't spend a whole lot of time in the store as the tempations were just too much for Rhonda to handle and we didn't need her to get into too much trouble on the home front!
So now I will be doing Simply Lovely Lace Socks by Karen Baumer from Interveave Knits on Sirdar Snuggly Fair Isle (dk) courtesy of my wonderful MIL! :-)
It was a lovely afternoon and poor sleepy Paisley missed it all. She slept though it and probably would have slept through dinner too if she could have. After we dropped little Deucey off at home we went over to Swiss Chalet for a nice dinner. I had a lot of fun today, it was really nice to have a girl's afternoon!
I can't wait to start on the new socks though, they're just sitting there in the bag, calling me.................................

With out any futher ado I present to you my finished Olympic Socks!

Wow, I've been really lacking in my blogging the last few days! No fun pictures to post this time around but I am nearly reaching the toe shaping on the second sock which is exciting because that means that I am almost finished. Whoo hoo! I'm really going to try and squeeze in another pair of socks in the 6 days and 18 hours left. I feel fairly confidant that I can do it. Now I'm just itching to try some cool sock yarn now that I've discovered I'm smitten4socks too! :-)

One sock down and one to go!! Whoo hoo. I finally got a chance to pick up and knit tonight for the first time since Sunday and finished up the rest of the sock. I took some pictures, but you'll have to excuse my feet because I truly believe I have the ugliest feet in the world (haha, well maybe not the ugliest but still nasty).

Not much to report for non-Olympic knitting, still struggling with the slipper for Paisley. I tried some worsted weight yarn and it still came out not proportioned quite right. Perhaps it's just not meant to be. :-(

Well, I'm going to cast on to the next sock now, I'm really enjoying knitting socks and I can't wait to graduate to cute sock yarn.

03Some pictures as promised from this morning's post

Friday January 10th @ 1:58pm

Approximately 1/2 an

hour later

I didn't really get a chance to knit too much until Saturday night.

The last two pictures are pretty much the sock as it is now, I've only done about an inch or two more of stockinette stitch since this morning.

Sunday January 12th @ 11pm

Despite the fact that I haven't had a whole lot of knitting time due to work and just doing family things this weekend I still managed to get quite a bit of the first Olympic sock completed. As of last night at 11pm I am done the decreases on the heel so it's just straight up knitting for 7" until I get to the toe shaping. All in all it's going great and seems fairly simple. The only thing I had problems with was picking up the stitches up the sides of the heel so I have a little gap where I've joined back up in the round and when I was shaping my heel it didn't work out exactly right with the decreases. I ended up having an extra stitch somewhere but it looks fine. If I have enough time (and I'm predicting that I will), I'll make another sock or maybe even another pair more....who knows how many I can get done. :-D
I would love to post some pictures now, but due to some weird blogger issues, I am unable to do it right now, so it will have to wait until next post.
I see others are making wicked progress on Team Canada, way to go everyone!

Although this is completely unrelated to knitting, I just had to post about it!
I was watching the news tonight and saw one of my old favourite bands were up for a Grammy. Who would have thought Death Cab for Cutie would be a nominee. It's been an awful long time since I've listened to them, so I looked though some old cd's and found some. Ahh, It takes me back, I'm talking 2000 (to anyone who's heard of this band) "forbidden love ep" and "we have the facts and we're voting yes". I'm listening right now and I'm suddenly feeling inspired and refreshed (lame but true). I really gotta check out their new stuff...I fogot how much I liked them.

Unfortunately, not too much knitting happening my way these days. I made one of the t-bar shoes for Paisley but it was way too big, so I started it again on worsted weight yarn instead and on smaller needles. I've got the sole finished but my pattern is missing for some reason(I guess the cat ate it???)...I've searched everywhere for it, so until I get a new one it's on hold and will probably be on hold until after the Olympics as it is getting pretty close to cast-on day and I can't wait! I'm eager to get going on the socks and I think I have it all figured out so I have high hopes that I will have the pair made in 16 days!

I guess I'll leave you with some pictures of my girl. We were playing around this morning with some cute dresses. She just loves to dress up and try on clothes and shoes (typical girl I guess). She's always gotta be so cheeezy!

The baby shoes are done!! The only problem is that the one that I just made seems bigger for some reason. I don't know why because I did everything exactly the same (except reverse) of the right shoe. I just had Rhonda confirm that they look fine so maybe I'm just being picky.
Paisley wants a pair now! She thinks they're cute and she's been trying to put them on. I've been messing around with some old Patons Astra yarn that I found in my stash, it's a really light purple colour. I just doubled it up to be a chunkier yarn and decided to use 6mm needles (I tried the 5's first but when I started the sole it just didn't look like it was going to fit her foot). Last night I whipped up the right sloe and part of the upper and measured it up to her foot. I think it's going to be about perfect!! I can't wait to get them done, I'm just anxious to see how they will turn out.
Look at me, I'm all gung ho on these shoes and I'm not working on my scarf again. Good thing these little babies don't take long to knit! I'm always getting side tracked speaking of which...
The Knitting Olympics is only 14 more days away! I'm all ready and rarin' to go. I've gotta get my urge to knit everything out of my system or I won't be able to finish my socks in time so no more starting any new projects!!

Just a quick note before I head out the door to work. I finished one of the Simple t-bar shoes last night while watching "Titanic"(ofcourse I bawled again, I'm such a sap). They are very simple (the pattern does not lie) and are a very quick knit too. I should be done the other one by tonight! These shoes are just too cute.

I'm all back up to par with my knitting thanks again to Rhonda, wooot woot!!! Last night when we got home from their place I got right to the 2nd sleeve of the baby sweater. Now all I have to do is the last decrease and I'm ready to start my garter. I think it's safe to say that it will be done today, thank goodness! I also am sure that I will have just enough yarn left to make the rest of the sleeve, pheeew sure cutting it close though.
My scarf's coming along too so that's great! I'm really positive on my socks I have chosen to make for the Olympics as well. Last weekend Rhonda found a beginner sock pattern for me called "Amazing Feets" and it seems to be fairly straight forward, so I'm hoping for the best. Now I'm just itching to start. :-)
I didn't have much to report this week, but I'm glad everything's wonderful again and I'm getting stuff done now.

Update!!! I saved this post as a draft and didn't publish it, but it's Monday now and I'm done the sweater! My only beef with the sweater is that it seems to have a small stain on the left side. I've washed it by hand with a samll amount of laundry soap, but it's still there. Anyone got any other suggestions?? I'm also cooking with gas on the scarff and I've started the simple t-bar baby shoes, which look so adorable! I'm already half done one of the shoes already so they won't take long. Samantha has a finished pair on flickr that you can check out. They really are adorable.
Well, this is probably my last post for the month of January, man time's flying by fast! It just doesn't seem like winter with the weather being so mild, but I can't complain because Paisley and I had fun at the park again today!

Time for a change (and I'm not talking elections)...
I'm going blond(ish) at least for a few days! Tonight my neighbour and I had a lady's night. She came over and bleached my hair. I dyed my hair black in the summer and just wanted it out because there's a colour I really want to dye it called ginger spice or something like that, it's a reddish copper brown...really pretty but there was no way I was going to achieve that with out a bleaching first. I know what you're thinking, SO horrible for your hair, but this is only the second time in my life I've put a bleach in so I though what the heck.
While we were waiting for my hair to develop, I gave her a knitting lesson. She's been bugging me since the summer for one because she got all these knitting needles from her mother-in-law and thought she might as well do something with them. We just did the basics, casting on and straight knitting for now.
I worked on my practice sock for the Olympics while she played around with the knitting. It doesn't seem to be too hard yet. The only thing I find is that I'm using metal needles and they feel really heavy when you're doing a project on 3 needles. I'm using acrylic needles for the sleeve of the baby sweater and I like the feel of them much better. Perhaps down the road I will be investing in some nice light dpn's because I really enjoy working on 3 needles for some reason.

That's it for me, I'm off to bed!

Prepare yourself for a long post, probably my longest post yet! :-)

I'm sure you all have been stuck in rush hour traffic. It's stop and go all the way there and it seems like you're never going to make it to your destination then there's a break in traffic and you're cruising happily along again and suddenly BOOM, it's all backed up. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that I seem to be forever stuck on the one sleeve of my seamless baby sweater, even though I'm making progress I can't seem to get the damn thing finished.
Last week I finally picked up a set of dpn and I was going to attempt to knit on 3 needles. As I may have mentioned in a previous post I botched the sleeve when I knit it all onto 2 needles not realizing that you actually needed 4. I've never been great at fixing my mistakes, it's an important skill that I lack and hope to one day master. I can rip it back, but as soon as I drop any stitches I'm completely lost. So, I waited all week for the weekend and consulted my mother-in-law Rhonda for help. I will say that before I get her to help me, I always try to fix it myself first...Unfortunately I usually end up screwing it up more.
After our visit on Saturday, I took it home all excited that I could finally finish a sleeve and I got to the decorative row, threw it in and then after it was finished I realized that I should've purled instead, bahhh! So I ripped it out all by myself and started again but then something in the pattern didn't come out right. I waited for Rhonda to bring Paisley back Sunday night for more help, Arrrgg. Paisley and her finally arrived and she set me straight again. I guess I picked up an extra stitch some how on each needle when I was purling my decorative row in. Now, I'm really hoping Sunday night's the night that I'm going to get my first sleeve done. Knitting on 3 needles wasn't really too hard at all. I'm now down to the knitty gritty (pun intended)...and I've started my garter rows and everything's perfect except that I forgot to do my decreasing on the last stockinet stitch row. Fudge!
I stared to go back again to my last row of ss so I could do the decreasing when all of a sudden all of the stitches slipped off one of the other needles. I tried to pick them all up, but now it's all bunged up and ofcourse....Now I need help yet again.
To top it all off...I'm pretty sure that I won't have enough of the yarn to finish the project, but we'll see...it's going to be cutting it pretty close though.
I guess tonight I'll be working on my scarf or maybe even trying to practice sock knitting techniques before the Olympics start, I haven't decided yet. I guess it doesn't really matter as long as I'm knitting! :-)

On a brighter note!
It was another wonderful day in Southern Ontario. Paisley and I took advantage of it and went to the park then stopped over to the Library. Paisley had a blast there. They have a little play corner at the library with all kinds of toys, games and puzzles. There was also a little play kitchen fully equipped with sink, stove and dishes (teapot & all), so while I sat and watched her play, she made me about 10 cups of tea and kept asking me (it was so cute) "Do you want a cuppatea Mama?" She was quite the little hostess, also making me eggs, mashed potatoes and cookies. We were probably there for about an hour playing. I think she was more interested in playing rather than picking out books. We ended up choosing a few books and some DVD's to watch at home. I think I watched "The Big Comfy Couch" video about 3 times today. Something that I thought was funny was that we also borrowed a "Strawberry the Shortcake" DVD and when you open it up (in traditional Strawberry the Shortcake style) it smells like strawberry goodness. I couldn't believe that they actually scented the inside of a DVD case!







More of these pictures to come!

First time being tagged by Samantha!

4 Jobs you have had in your life -- My first job was at a camera store in Owen Sound, ON. It started as a co-op through highschool. I miss that place. :-) I've also worked at HMV and assisted a photographer when I lived in Toronto and currently I'm working at Shopper's Drugmart.

4 Movies you could watch over and over --Empire Records, Practical Magic, Almost Famous and 13 going on 30 (I thought that movie was so cute).

4 Places you have lived --Owen Sound, (I grew up there), Toronto, Etobicoke and Hamilton all here in Ontario.

4 TV Shows you love to watch -- Rock Star INXS (when it was on), now there's not much worthy of watching. (Because of Paisley) I watch alot of children's programming though Dora the Explorer, Big Comfy Couch, Blue's Clues, etc.

4 Places you have been on Vacation -- Not many I would call vacations really. I've only been out of the province once to Quebec. I seriously can't name any more....

4 Websites you visit daily -- The Weather Network, Blogs ofcoure, My banking and google (always gotta google something).

4 of your favourite foods -- Spaghetti (well almost anything pasta), chicken (cooked anyway), chocolate and this is sad, lol, but Wendy's Spicy Chicken Sandwich...I think I could eat that everyday if it wouldn't make me pack on the pounds and eventually give me a heartattack.

4 Places you would rather be right now -- Sleeping (worked until 12am last night), somewhere tropical and warm, shopping and cozy on the couch knitting.

4 Bloggers you are tagging -- I actually don't know that many people on here yet that I feel I could tag. Maybe by the next time I'm tagged I'll have networked a little more. :-)

The last few days have been devoted to getting the baby sweater finished. Between, working, housework and playtime with Paisley I've managed to finish the body of the sweater. I some dropped a stitch some how during my bind off, so I just have to go back and fix that but other than that I'm done and ready to start the sleeves.
Since I've never knit with dpn's before (minus i-cords) I thought I'd give it a whirl. I got all my stitches off the stitch holder and picked up the 4 stitches that had to be added in the armpit and divided them as evenly as possible on the 3 needles. I thought this would be good practice as I entered myself in the Yarn Harlot's Knitting Olympics to try and make a pair of socks. So now all my stitches are onto the needles I begin to add in my yarn to knit. Anyway, I'm knitting along thinking that I've got it and I get to the the last stitch on the first needle and then all of a sudden my stitches are only on 2 needles instead of the original 3. That's when I put it down and sought out some help. I went to knitting help.com and watched a video tutorial on knitting with dpn's only to find out that you actually have to use 4 (or sometimes maybe even 5)needles. This actually kind of made me laugh because dpn's come with 4 needles, I should've have maybe put 2 and 2 together. Oh well, I guess you've gotta start somewhere! For now, my knitting is back in the bag until I get a chance to start the sleeves over again.

I'm back on track!
Last night I finally got to pick my knitting back up again, I stayed up quite late trying to make a little more progress and then before I knew it, is I was making WICKED progress! I got the sleeves on their respective stitch holders and I am now working my way down the back of the sweater. The only thing I noticed on the pattern was that it wasn't really clear on the length of the back. Is it just up to whenever we feel that it is long enough or am I just not reading it quite right? Does anyone who has done this sweater know? It's the Seamless Yoked Baby Sweater. I don't imagine it's going to take me that long to finish it now, I'm so excited! Next task is to get a set of 4mm dpn because I don't have any. This pattern is extremely easy and straight forward, so if anyone is looking for a quick baby gift...this would be it! I'm very happy with it so far.

Paisley also got a beautiful new raglan hoodie that Gramma finished for her. It was so awesome that we had to do a little photo shoot to display her work and the beautiful babe behind it. Paisley loves this sweater, she's been wearing it since she got it on Saturday (minus bath & bedtime)it due for a wash anytime now. She keeps saying that Gramma made it for her and she "lubs Gramma" just too cute! My parent's stopped by Sunday afternoon and as always, my mother loved the new knit!

My Mom never got into the knitting so I think she's impressed that I've even picked up a pair of needles. I am driven by such lovely inspiration (Rhonda), she always makes the most amazing things(as you can see from above). After a year or so of watching her and all the cool things she had made I wanted to knit too so I got her to show me and I've been knitting for about 2 years now. I am so lucky to have such a great mentor/teacher and I hope that one day I'll be an "expert knitter" like her.

And I gotta go now (what a sweet way to end things), Paisley just got into the fridge and cracked 5 eggs all over the kitchen. Mannn, I want to swear violently right now. Damn terrible twos!

My title is currently being worked on, just wanted to apologize for it being so tiny right now!

Nothing exciting to post(not having a great week), making some progress on the baby sweater...not as much as I would like but it's all good, I'll just take my time at it.
Hopefully on Monday I will have alot more of it finished and ready to report (I'm being optimistic that I won't have too many interruptions, probably wishful thinking)!

This will probably be my last post for the weekend as my hubby occupies the computer when he's home playing Final Fantasy online. :-)

I'll end this with my favourite picture of Paisley & I (gotta spruce up this post some how).

The Trials & Tribulations of a Knitter

For the last few days I've been in a knitting lull...

Between keeping up with house work(I slacked last week) and Paisley, it seems to be hard to fit knitting into my schedule this week. I tried to work on my ribbed scarf a few times, we had a little situation with the ball of yarn yet again and now it's on hold until we get it into a ball of yarn again. You should see this ball of yarn, it's really quite scary looking. The A'more is almost chenille like in feel and it tangles together really easy. Sometimes I think all the balls of yarn in the world are out to get me because it seems like everytime I start with a new ball we have a "situation". This time both ends came out together and tangled into a bad mess.
On Samantha's blog I saw her finished Seamless Yoked Baby Sweater, I also check out the pattern and it seemed pretty straight forward. Right away I ran up to my knitting stash to see if I had the specified yarn for the pattern, sure enough I found 2 50g ball of magic garden Buttons dk yarn and thought to myself, just perfect. It's white with little specks of pink, green and purple. It's already looking cute and I haven't even knit up that much of it yet. It's for a little baby girl due in February, so hopefully I have it finished reeeealllly soon! It actually seems to knit up pretty fast so I don't see it being a problem, although I do have a slight problem right now...my kitten Deuce attacked my circular need and chewed it. Now it's not smooth and my knitting catches on it. I've tried mending it myself with a nail file, but it doesn't seem like it's done any good. I guess tomorrow's caper will be to go and buy a new 4mm circular needle so I can get this sweater done. Ahhh, the joys of having cats!

Wow, I've just found the best pencil crayons in the world for a 2 year old!!

At work (Shoppers Drug Mart) we're having this massive Christmas sale because too much Christmas stock was ordered. Through all my sorting and searching through merchandise I came across these pencil crayons, they're called Magic Artist by Bic. (nicely decorated with Winnie the Pooh). I kind of checked them out, on the back read "Wood-free resin pencil. Ultra shock resistant lead." I thought to myself, hummm maybe they won't break like all of her other crayons in her pencil case I'll give 'em a whirl (plus I couldn't beat the price marked down to a whole whopping .99 cents). Today we tried them out and voila not a single one of the 12 crayons broke and Paisley's rough when she's colouring. They were dropped on the floor several times to boot.

I must say....I am quite impressed!

Well, I gotta go clean up a huge cereal mess on the table, she just dumped her bowl of Apple-cinnimon cheerios.

Still Alive

Just wanted to let everyone know that I am still alive. I haven't had much time to even check my email this weekend as I usually work on the weekends! :-(
I haven't had much progression with any knitting either, so nothing exciting to report except that I'm not doing the Irish hiking scarf on the same yarn anymore, it just ticked me off on the TLC A'more (I ripped it out about 5 times). So hopefully this week I'm going to look into getting something different to make it with.

While Paisley is completely glued to "Elmo's World", I thought I'd type a quick post while I had the chance!

Firstly, I would like to send props out to Samantha for plugging my blog! Like I've already mentioned to her, if I some how become famous, I'm keeping her in mind for my PR person.

After ripping it out 3 times and slight technical difficulties with the ball of yarn, I have decided to make the Irish Hiking Scarf my next project. I started on 5.5mm needles but I've change my mind and am now doing it on 4mm needles. With the type of yarn that I'm using (Red Heart's TLC A'more) you just couldn't see the pattern that great with the larger needles, it just blended in with the ribbing too much and you couldn't see the beautiful cables. It seems like an easy enough pattern so I don't anticipate taking all that long to knit. I'm just anxious to see how it's going to look as the cable pattern progresses.

Now I just need an excuse to put a picture in this post...

Today Paisley was pulling stuff left and right out of her closet, creating quite a mess for me to clean up. As she was digging through things she found this little pink hat with the earflaps (which she will not take off now for some odd reason). She keeps calling it her "Hockey Hat" because we got my brother one of those "Hat Trick Hats" for Christmas (incase anyone is not familiar with these hats, they look like hockey helmets). So now she's all in her glory because she has hat like Uncle Chris' (whom she adores). It's so funny because Ron & I are not really into hockey at all, but she loves it. She has a few old hockey cards that she keeps around to look at, if she sees it on TV she gets all excited and she always wants to skate (even though she's never skated before) and also go watch Uncle Chris play hockey (he's a goaltender).

A little girl after her Uncle's hear I guess.

SOME NONSENSICAL NATTERING TO END THE EVENING
The last two days have been nothing but crap weather. Today being the second day of really doing nothing at all(taking a small break from the knitting) I decided to stay in my pyjamas all day (how sad...I know). The least I could do was be a good mommy get Paisley dressed up. She's been a handful the last two days because she hasn't been able to get out and burn off all that penned up energy. It was a day of "NO's" and "GET OUT OF THAT" and me being super irritated but we made it through and ended up running out to Shoppers to get milk and a frozen pizza around 6pm-the craziest part is that I actually went out in my pyjamas...a first for me.
Okay, my social outlet for the day, I'm sitting here typing away my frustration. I was never much of keeping a diary, or writting for that matter, but I really am enjoying this blog thing...between blogging, knitting and having my hands full here at home, it really shouldn't be a problem this winter from becoming lethargic.
On a positive note, my neighbor dropped off a bunch of little girls clothes for Paisley again. We had a blast going through them because Paisley had to try all of them on. There was about 7 or 8 pairs of little flared jeans, all too adorable. I guess this means that I have to make the little girl next door a sweater. In the summer I made that raglan hoodie that I posted yesterday (Paisley's modeling it for me) for a little girl we received a tonne of clothes from. I was actually thinking of when I was little and how much I loved getting hand-me-downs. I was maybe 8 years old, not 2. It made me laugh how excited Paisley was over all of this.

I also finally got my binder of knitting patterns together and now I'm finding there is actually a use for dividers.

Just a few more pairs of mitts I have done for Christmas 2005.
I always use the Patons Canadiana Mitt pattern for my mitts.
I'm just really comfortable with that pattern.





I'm so lucky I have such a beautiful model to display my work (when she co-operates). :-) This cute raglan hoodie was my summer project!






With all my knitting, we had to put Paisley to work! Just kidding, she just loves to help out around the house (and I have to put pictures of her in here somewhere).

A new bag for a new year!

Santa was nice enough to give me a knitting kit for Christmas this year. It was a "Black Sheep Bags-Booga Bag Pattern" Kit. I was determined to get it done fast so I could show it off and I also couldn't wait to felt it, I love felting! It took me a day and a half (10mm needles) to finish it off and it dried super quick, I got to take it shopping the same day. The colours in this bag are just amazing and imagine that, I didn't even have to do stripes, the yarn did it for me. The only thing I found was that my i-cords just weren't long enough, straps are a tad short. I'm all out of the Noro Kureyon yarn that was used to make the bag, but I'm sure I can figure something out. I wanted a bag that was just big enough to throw a diaper or two, some wipes, a sippy cup, my wallet and keys and this does just the trick.