One Knitter at a Time!

Rachel,

I wish we had been able to meet up before I left PA. Totally not fair that you are always the one to make the drive, but you just have a dog instead of full house! Such is life and you have an open door policy at my house-except to where I keep the yarn! When we moved, I gave away an entire garbage bag FULL of acrylic yarn and only on occasion do I regret giving it away.  I still have enough for the crocheted afghan that I keep promising myself I'll finish-some day. Like you, I taught a lady at work to knit. Only because she and I see each other 5 times a week, she gets a little more instruction. I've showed her how to purl now that she has 2 garter stitch dishcloths finished. Never dreamed she would continue beyond a single dishcloth.

Taking over the world one Knitter at a Time!

First and Second Dishcloths made by my co-worker!

Remember how I said I wouldn't go crazy if I took up sewing and I would start with something small like a pillow case?  You might as well start laughing now. I have roughly half the top of my coffee table's worth of a quilt top pieced together. I have another set of blocks ready to be sewn together for the same surface area.  Go me- one coffee table top cover!  With my next paycheck, I think I'm going to duck out again for another Moda Paint Box Batiks at my local yarn store that carries quilting supplies. What was I thinking?

Morning set of quilt blocks

This weekend I took the boys out to play on the tennis court at the apartment complex. We had a good 45 minutes where they ran around like chickens and I knit a little. Who would have thought that it would be a huge perk to move back into an apartment complex because there's a fenced in area that I can let the boys run free? They were so tired when we came back inside, DS1 vegged on the couch watching cartoons and DS2 crawled into bed.  I wasn't sure where he went because when I stepped out of the kitchen with a ready lunch, DS2 was no where to be found.  He put himself to bed and was OUT like a rock.  I shook him and called his name to wake him.  Perhaps if he wouldn't get up at 5:45 AM (that's right- the buttcrack of a chicken) he wouldn't have been so tired.

Second set of quilt blocks today.

DH was grocery shopping at the time and spent way too much money! Of course, we need to re-stock the shelves after moving and not dropping $500 in one trip just on staples. Some day I want to open the cupboards to see them full and still not have anything to make.  I'm debating my energy level tonight after the boys go down for the night. DH asked a while back for cookies but we didn't have the brown sugar or the chocolate chips. Now I have the stuff but not the cookies yet. His birthday is this week so that's a cheap and easy birthday present for him and will be on time/early. Perhaps I'll go all out and make 2 batches of cookies! Probably not.

Me