Crummy Days!

To start off, I wanted to go to Mary Maxim today to pick up some yarn to make a baby sweater for some friends of mine who just had a baby. Ron told me on Sunday that he would take me, ofcourse today on his day off he didn't want to go so now I don't get the yarn I need to start the project. I wasn't pleased that he didn't want to take me, nor did he remember that he said that he would. Now what am I to do????
I've had the the yarn to make a pinwheel sweater for well over a year (I ordered a bunch of knit picks swish). I was going to make it for my niece who was born December 2007, but I never got around to it so now since I have another baby girl of my own, I thought I'd make it for Rowan instead. I wanted to start on it tonight while I watched American Idol. I checked out which needles I would be needing for the pattern and discovered that they were pretty much the only dpns I didn't have. So while Ron and Paisley were making cal zones for supper he told me to slip out to Micheal's (which is now a 3min drive from our house) and get some. Do you think they had the size I was looking for?? Ofcourse not!! I leave and head to the next closest store Wal-mart and they also happen to be out of that size. I just needed 5.5mm dpns, I guess it just wasn't in the cards tonight to start that project either.
There...I just needed to vent on yet another unsuccessful day of knitting. Thanks for listening and hopefully next time I have some progress of aleast something up here.

mmm Pancakes!

You Are Buttermilk Pancakes

Your prefer traditional, old fashioned foods. You shy away from anything fake, and you like meals with simple ingredients. It's not likely someone would find margarine or diet soda in your kitchen. Instead, someone might find a loaf of homemade bread baking or a soup simmering.

What Kind of Pancakes Are You?

Meeeowww!!

Rhonda sent me the pictures of Rowan in the kitty cat hat I made for her. She looks absolutely purrrfect in it! I'm planning on making another in a bit heavier yarn because the baby yarn is a little thin for this cold weather we've been having lately. I'd like to make one for my neice too, I'm sure she'd look like a doll in it. :-)

This pattern is from an old Patons Beehive Book, Issue 420.

(I've acquired quite a few of these little books over the last year.) Kitten Bonnet & Mitts called for Canadiana Fingering 4 ply or Patons Fuzzy Wuzzy. I would love to get my hands on some Fuzzy Wuzzy, too bad it's no longer available, I check on their site. The picture they show was done with it and it looks so cute. I just used some 4 ply baby yarn that I had in the old stash. It also used 3.25mm needle but I used a 3.5mm just because I was itching to try out my new knit picks needles that I got for Christmas. After wearing the hat on her for over a week now, it's gotten quite loose so when I do this hat again I will use the smaller needles. :-)

Baby Pants

I got a phone call a little over a week ago from my sister and she had a favour to ask of me. Her friend is having a baby really soon and I guess she bought a knitted outfit at the hospital gift shop. It's the "going home" outfit for the baby but she was disappointed that it didn't have pants to go with it, so ofcourse my sister told her friend that I knit and that she would ask me if I could knit her some "Mary & Joseph Blue" pants. Her friend is from Haiti (moved to Canada not long ago), so my sister had to scratch her head a little on that colour and they came up with baby blue. *LOL*. After looking at pattern after pattern, I was having the hardest time finding exactly what I was looking for. Everything seemed like it was going to be too big for a newborn baby. I even started a pair out of a Debbie Bliss pattern book that I borrowed from Rhonda, but I ended up frogging them (they just seemed too large) and doing a little more searching on the Internet. I finally stumbled upon this pattern and decided to just go with it, the due date is fast approaching (February 1st). I just had to do a quick pair of booties to go with them too and on Friday I put them in the mail. She should get them sometime this week! :-)

I also knit a kitty cat bonnet for Rowan, but I have yet to get a picture of her wearing it. It was from an old Patons leaflet. It's too adorable! In search of finding a pattern for baby pants I also found a really cute pant pattern for Rowan as well. It's Baby Bell bottoms from the Blue Blog. I've never been a big fan of knitted pants but these are CUTE! I also want to do a moss stitch cardigan for the girl as well. It's just a pattern from the ball band of bernat baby softee and I thought it was sweet looking. All this knitting for Rowan and I think I need to find something to knit for Paisley...

Well that's about it for another weekend that came and went (too fast), we had a good one though. Saturday we dropped Rowan off at Gramma's house for the night and we took Paisley to a movie. She wanted to see The Tale of Desperaux but it wasn't playing around here so she settled for Bedtime Stories. It was fun for all! It was really nice to just get out and spend some quality time with just Paisley as well, I think she had fun but she was so tired (we missed the 7pm movie due to huge line ups and the new cinema on the Stoney Creek Mountain, so if you're from Hamilton and planning on going there...give yourself lots of time. It's a maaad house ) so then we came home again to check the times and the next time that feature was playing was 10:15, so we ended up going to Ancaster instead for one that was playing at 9:30. She was pooped out and fell alseep on the way home (it didn't help that she was sick all day the day before).

Well, I'd better get to bed. The baby's been a bit cranky all day today and hopefully she'll sleep a full night.

I love my needles

Thanks to Robyn at Knit & Purl Mama I found a really neat & quick pattern for a headband and got to try out my new knit picks needles (which I might add are like knitting with butter...I love them so).

Now I give you Headband in Alaska knit up in just a little less then a day. I used some stash, Paton's Classic Wool. I'm thinking of gifting this to my Mom for a late Christmas gift. I will be knitting this again, I wouldn't mind one and I know a few others who could use one. :-)

That's all for now, Rowan is napping so it's back to the daily grind of house chores. I've got laundry to finish, ah the saga of the never ending laundry continues!

Happy New Year Years everyone, remember to drive safe tonight *wink*!

I wanted a sweater for Christmas too!

I guess that's my signal to get sewing the sweater I started well over a year ago. Nearly 2 years ago, I was gifted several balls of Patons Decor in Aubergine for my birthday from my MIL Rhonda and I had started a sweater with that but I frogged it and the yarn sat for a while until I found the Tilted Duster from Interweave Knits Fall 2007 issue. So yesterday I got it out of hiding and started sewing. I've been loathing, no maybe fearing the sewing because I never like how it turns out because I am a poor seamstress. Surprisingly...it actually turned out not to bad. So now it is finally finished, all I need to do is find some buttons for it (I want to find pewter coloured ones) and ofcourse I'm going to wash it and block it a bit. :-) Once I find the buttons I like, I will post it up again. I'm really look forward to wearing it soon!

Christmas came and went like whirlwind. We did Christmas Eve at my In-Laws in Smithville, Christmas Day we went to Owen Sound to see my family and ended up staying the night and then on Boxing Day we went to Ron's Grandma's place in Ancaster. Santa was good to both of the girls, even Mommy got a few unexpected gifts from Santa, like a water dispenser and a mini food processor to make Rowan food. I whipped her up some applesauce last night and I absolutely love it and I got an awesome vest from Valerie. Someone also knew that I really, really wanted a set of knit picks harmony options. I can't wait to cast something on with them but it's been so hectic the last few days. Ron was sooo sick all day yesterday...eeeweeeey.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas too, but I've got to go for now. Rowan just woke up from a nap, she's been fussy and the house is a mess (I've really got to clean today...soon)!

Seasons Greetings To All!

Paisley & Rowan want to wish you a very happy holiday from our family to yours!

I'd sure LOVE to know where my yarn needles are.

Oh where oh where have my yarn needles gone?
Oh where oh where can they be?
I've looked and looked for over a week
Oh where oh where can they be?

I need to sew my hats together for my nephew and neice's Christmas gifts. I guess I'll have to go buy one..after this snow subsides. I've seriously looked everywhere! I guess that's what happens when you change your living room around and have to move and reduce your knitting hole.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow......

Paisley's look-a-likes

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Monday December, 8th, 2008

On Monday my little girl Paisley turned 5 years old. It's hard to believe that she is 5 now and all that time has passed. She even has 2 loose teeth (the front bottom two) and the big teeth coming in behind. She's growing up on me...too fast! He had a little birthday party with her friends on Saturday, it was too cute.

Last Friday Dec. 5th my little Rowan girl turned 6 months old, eeeshh. Seems like just yesterday I brought her home from the hosptial.

Not much knitting has been taking place although I've been trying to get some last minute Christmas stuff done. Alot of change has been happening at my house these days, but I'll get into that a little later.

Gotta get Paisley going and ready for school. :-)

Taadaa, A Hat!

I designed a hat to match Helena! I have written the pattern and will post it soon. :-)

Buttons for Helena

Helena is completed now! I wanted buttons instead, so I put in button holes. So I tried for 3 but the first hole I put in was too close to the top it would have choked the poor baby, so I guess I try and fudge in the hole and go with the two. I also tried to make my own frog buttons but I don't like them at all so I will be looking for buttons to match.

Today I'll leave you with this..............That Paisley's so Wiiilldddd!

Beating the Rain

All this rain and I need things to try and bring up my spirits . What better then a baby sweater. I casted on for Helena a few days ago and I'm nearly finished. Here's a sneak peek....

I am really enjoying this pattern. It's well written and very straight forward. I can't wait to finish it so I can cast on for another. This is the 3 month size and I'm thinking of gifting it to my neighbour next door that just had a baby girl only a few short weeks ago. Apparently they love knitted gifts, they told me this a while a go when she was still pregnant. I think they'd like Helena. The yarn sucks to knit with, it's just some baby yarn from wal-mart called baby luv by Georga but the colour's pretty and it's very soft, so it will be nice against the baby's skin.

For now, I'll leave you with Rowan today at 5 months/11 days.

Have a good weekend, perhaps a lot of knitting will be done with this crappy weather we're having her in Southern Ontario. :-)

Too funny!

I just had to post this quick, as I found it quite humorous that a knitter out there got Obama to pose with her knitting. It just seems so crazy and knitterly as I am sitting here thinking of all the crazy things I have photographed my knitting with.

I'll leave you with that...

:-)

It's been a while....

Wow! It's been quite a long time since my last post.  Life's pretty busy when you have a school aged kiddo and a near 5 month old.  I have been knitting a bit. I finished up some old projects like the raglan pullover sweater I started for Paisley almost a year ago from Cabin Fever.  I also finished up the Raglan Baby Cardigan for a friend, but I forgot to take a picture of it and left it at my parents house when I was there last weekend. Silly me, it turned out beautiful though, when the recipient gets it, I'll get her to take a picture of it with her son wearing it. 
It should fit him perfect!  I've also been working on some booties and I'm still plugging away at my socks and the Raglan Baby Cardigan for Rowan with all those odd balls of cotton.

Well, It's Halloween and it's finally here. We decorated and carved a  pumpkin, dressed up for the party at school and now there's only one thing left to do....go trick-or-treating.  About an hour ago Paisley had an upset belly and was sick then she had some toast and now she's napping so we'll see how it goes. I told her to rest up before we go! She ended up making it out, not quite as enthusiastic as past years, but it was a good haul none the less.  I was really proud of our decorating this year, so I took a picture of it.  It all came down on Saturday though.  My pumpkin also turned out better then expected.  I was going for an evil Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Christmas. Ron's the carver, but he wasn't here this time to do the pumpkin so I did it myself and even impressed him. :-) Paisley was really excited because Daddy did make it back in time to come with us to Trick-or-Treating.  I guess in a few weeks we'll try Christmas decorating. I can't believe how close it is now!!   I had just enough time to finally finish off this post this afternoon (Monday) while Rowan is napping and Paisley is watching a movie...horrraaay!!!  It's so beautiful out for the first week of November, so I think when Rowan wakes up, we'll go outside for a while and enjoy it because I'm sure it's not going to last for too much longer. 

Busy busy!

We've been fairly busy here these days. Paisley's started school again, I'm constantly busy with Rowan and we're all trying to enjoy the outdoors as much as possible before the weather gets too cold out as well as trying to keep up with the day to day household chores. On top of it all, Paisley was in the afternoon kindergarten class and due to enrollment being down in the school this year, they had to split the classes up into 3 instead of 4 which means that Paisley is now in the mornings instead of PM now. It's going to take some adjusting but she seems to really like going in the AM.
On Sunday Rowan will be 4 months old already. Geeezz!! She's changing so much these days and becoming more and more animated. She just screams sometimes for no reason if you leave her, I think she likes to hear herself scream and it's pretty funny. :-)

Rowan has also been sleeping in the bassinet since birth, but last night she some how did a 180 degree spin in it, which scared me because I'm worried if she's that strong that she can spin around then maybe she could tip over since it's a cradle, so last night was her first night sleeping in her crib and she slept all night too. She's back in it tonight again, so we'll see how she does again. I'm hoping for the best! It feels a little sad and strange having her so far away now, I think I'm having some separation anxiety. *LOL*

I have been knitting a bit, but not near as much as I would like to. I'm currently finishing up some projects and I also started Rowan the Top Down Raglan Cardigan with odd balls of cotton.

Well, that's about it for me. I think we're heading up to visit my family in Owen Sound on Saturday. That should be nice because it's been a while since I've seen them. We were supposed to go up in September for my nephew Lucas' 4th birthday. His present is still sitting upstairs.

Unil next post.........

TTFN :-)

A Finished Item!

Well the heart blanket that I have been working away at since Rowan was born is finally complete. I finished it over the weekend but just finally got a change to photograph it this morning. Today I will be gifting it to my neighbour who just had a baby girl about a month after I had Rowan. I'm also well on my way to having the Top Down Raglan Baby Cardigan made for another friend of mine who just had her baby boy a few weeks ago in August. I just have the ribbing left on one sleeve, it needs buttons and have to tie in all the ends as well. I started that sweater before I had Rowan and it's taken me this long to finish it up.


In other news, Rowan is getting huge! She's now 3 months and 2 weeks old and is babbling and cooing up a storm for us. It's really quite cute! :-) Paisley also started Senior Kindergarten, this is her first full week. Last week she went only 2 days. Of course I meant to bring my camera for the big day but after I got there I realized that I left it at home...bummer!! I believe it was at the beginning of June I sent away to change my last name to be the same as my little family's here and after waiting nearly 3 months, on Friday I finally received my new birth certificate. I'm actually quite excited about it. Call me old fashioned or whatever but I feel more complete with my family now. Next on the list is changing all my stuff over like drivers license, health card and such.

Feet Continued

When you can't find what you're looking for, you do it yourself. :-)

Feet

Last week our feet took us all the way to the Discovery Centre. Its a really neat museum type place on the bay front in Hamilton and my first time visiting too. They had lots of neat exhibits and facts on Canadian history, it was really quite educational for the kiddies and it was pretty just to be down on the water. After we walked over to Pier 4 and the kids played at the park and splash pad. (I went down on the bus with my neighbour, as our car isn't able to fit that many kids). To finish the day we all had ice cream before taking the trolley bus back downtown to catch our bus home. It was a really nice day! :-) Paisley had fun in the beaver's den and swimming with the fish. Don't mind the red-eye in the fishy picture, I was too lazy to edit tonight.

Rowan's been alot happier these days and the smiles are really coming out. She has her fussy times but for the most part she's pretty tolerable now, I'm really enjoying her alot more. She's getting so big too and starting to fit into her fun clothes. In these pictures she's sporting a $1 shirt and shorts I got her a walmart a few weeks ago.

I've been knitting a bit more these days. The girls have been going to bed at the same time for last few weeks, in between 8:30-10pm and it's been quite nice. As the colder weather approaches I think more and more knitting will be accomplished. Rowan's (most nights) is now sleeping all the way through to the morning which is a real nice treat. :-) Only 2 more week and Paisley is off to Senior Kindergarten. She's very excited to be going back so stayed tune for first day back to school photos!!

2 Months Old

On Thursday Aug. 5th, Rowan turned 2 months. It's crazy and hard to believe that that much time has already went by. Unfortunately I have no knitting to share with you but I thought I'd at least post something.
Every time bring the camera out to catch a smile, we aren't so co-operative. Her crying seems a little less excessive these days, but she still cries ALOT. We've went through a few formula changes and she seems alot happier on Isomil a soy-based formula, just the original one without the Omegas because the higher iron was making her poops really hard. She had her 2 month check-up and got all of her needles on the 5th. She is doing great according to the doctor. Paisley also had a check-up and got her 4-6 year booster and she was a really good girl. Both of them are doing well on the growth chart, Paisley's above average and Rowan now weighs 9lbs 7oz and is in the 50th percentile. The doctor said that is excellent considering her lower birth weight. She eats like a tank though, so I'm not surprised. *LOL* I think things are coming along with Paisley as well. She truly does love her baby sister. On a whim Paisley went to my parent's house for a week while they were visiting us this weekend, so Rowan and I get a nice quite week. I miss Paisley like crazy even though I'm sure the break will be nice. This is the very first time she's been up to her grandparent's in Owen Sound all by herself. I guess she's a big girl now! :-) Maybe there is knitting in my future this week??

***This song is dedicated to my Paisley, this is her and her daddy's favourite song. My Green Kite by Peter Himmelman ***