This week has been crazy! Simply because there are not enough hours in the day, I'm signing up for something new. Lately my back has been sore and the one wrist is swollen again. What does one do with sore muscles and swollen joints? Watch yoga YouTube video clips and attempt to follow along. I'll make the commitment to roughly once a week right now or until I really figure out how to have 32 hours days in 24. One of my favorite moves so far ends up making my back snap, crackle and pop for doing nothing more than laying on the floor!
As a result of the swollen wrists, I'm not knitting as much (gasp). Instead I've been reading whatever books are downloadable through the iPad and my local library. Nothing has been worth of a review or can be deemed as good literature. I've also been visiting the library with the boys and we find some of the neatest books. The book we returned last weekend was Can You Make a Scary Face by Jan Thomas and it has EVERYTHING in it. There are giant frogs, the chicken dance, giggles, and so much more. It's almost too active to be a bedtime story. Our new book is Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas---Hmm I'm seeing a trend that I didn't notice before. Really I didn't.
Oh, DH did get his cookies for his birthday after all. By the time the batter was mixed, I was so tired that I just made the cookies into a cookie bar. Did you know that it takes forever to mix cookie dough with many, many, many interruptions? The least of which was when DS1 was yelling that DS2 was eating the kitty's food. That would be the third, yes I said THIRD time he's been caught eating the kitty's food. I don't get it and probably never will. Hopefully it's not just a statement about my cooking abilities. For all the rest of the interruptions, you'll have to give me a call so I can mimic the voices and mini explosions involved for you!
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| As always, I make some of the best messes while baking. |
I guess I could stick to the crafting; I know I'm better at that. So far this week, I have laid out my quilt top and have decided what I'm going to do next. The blocks of four will be sewn into another block of nine. Trust me, it makes sense. So when I have enough blocks of four for another block of nine (36 pre-cut 5" x 5" fabric) the three bigger blocks with be sewn together. THEN and only then will I lay the quilt top on a bed for scale. I can resist the urge to check it out now on my king bed. Denial isn't just a river in Egypt right?
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| Not the final picture with the final layout but the only picture of a police car included for scale. |
Only 4-6 more rounds are knit on my Abotanicity sweater. At this rate, next year is when I'll finish the sweater. Getting back into the swing of the lace took a little while but I have been off a lace kick lately. Perhaps I burnt myself out with a lacy blanket, shawl, and lacy/holy socks several months ago. I made it roughly a quarter of the way through the Haruni shawl before I ripped it out. There was nothing wrong with the pattern, just something off with the combo of yarn, needles, pattern, and knitter. Pretty sure the knitter was the wrong choice.
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| Lacy part along the bottom and pretty stitch markers! |
Me!
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