Merry Christmas to all!

Here's wishing every one a happy, healthy, and safe holiday.

We're off to dinner and Midnight Mass.

Hope everyone gets lots of yarn in their stockings!

Birthdays and goodbyes

We celebrated Frick’s 7th birthday last night.

Many thanks to Nittany Knits for her fab “fruit cake” saving the day yet again!

Frick has a severe egg allergy, and, I think as a defense mechanism, she doesn’t like cake or cookies, (except Oreos. I raised my kid right.) so Nittany came up with the idea to cut up all her favorite fruits, cover it with whipped cream, and V I O L A instant fruit cake!
Crazy fun to be had as usual.

Lots of pizza, friends, family, games, presents, and whipped cream.

Happy birthday baby girl!

This should have been posted yesterday, but as usual here at LMSFG, things don’t always run as they should. I went to a funeral for a friend yesterday afternoon.
Good bye Uncle Bob. You will be missed.

Of all the knits in all the world

How much have I missed

You Knit What?!?

I'm so glad someone came up with THIS!

See!?!

It's real!

Finished!

I can't believe it, but in a week, I finished my version of the Seamless Yoke Sweater!

Since I finished it at around 2 in the morning, it so counts as a Monday for Me project!

My version –

4 rows of seed stitch for the cuffs, bottom, and neck of sweater.

No color work since the yarn that I had planned to use for the contrast ended up being totally wrong.

I ended up with only 2 rounds of decreases on the yoke.

It's just the kind I wanted, but I think that I'll make it a little bigger next time. I might also make the neckline come up a bit more.

Or not.

I wanted something I could pull on those days that I just needed to be warm and comfortable, but not really dressed.

Overall, I'm happy with this one.

Life for the technology challenged

A'int easy!

Get this:

I FINSHED my EZ Seamless Yoke Sweater! It took a week!
I’m still in shock, and I wore it today.
So I had the blog written out on the laptop. All set and waiting to post.
CFO took pictures.
Fire up El Machino since it’s easier to upload pictures from the PC than the laptop and,
BAM.
Technology up and slaps me in the head.
First the card reader will not corporate.
Tried cleaning, jiggling, technically tapping.
Nothing.
Then I can’t find the cable to connect the camera to the laptop.
Then I find said cable and use it to connect camera.
Laptop freezes and will not even accept the fall back “ctrl-alt-del” maneuver.

Damn.

Hoping to have CFO/CTO work on laptop in the morning and find correct cable…

I really did finish the sweater.
Honest.
I even have witnesses.

Too much to knit – not enough time!

These past 3 weeks have gone by in a blur!

Thank goodness for “Monday for me day” because obligatory knitting had me by the neck.
I started my seamless yolk sweater by the divine Miss EZ. Frogged the sleeve and a half along with the 4 inches of body when I realized that it was WAY too big. I redid the numbers, and I’m almost there.
I have been afraid of knitting a “real” sweater. The miles of straight knitting seemed like too much of a chore since that’s the part that always gets me when I’m knitting socks.
I am surprised and relieved to report that it’s been oddly refreshing! I’ve actually become addicted and constantly have to fight the urge to do just. One. More. Round.
I’ll post pics as soon as I can find the time to download them…

So tonight I’m out Christmas shopping with Nittany and she mentions over dinner, “So, did you see the kilt hose?”
I’ve had very little computer time of late, so I didn’t even know the new Knitty was out!

Naturally, the moment I got home, I kissed the girls, got grounded till we get to FL by Frack since I took too long to get home tonight, and checked it out.

I think I now know what to make myself out of the Jitterbug I got!

And, oddly, I love these.

And this!

And this!

And this!

And this! I think I have to cast it on tonight.

Is it me, or did they have a lot more patterns than usual to offer?

Not that I’m complaining…