VROOM! SWISH!

After all this time, there's something other than a little knitting featured here! Roughly 30 minutes Saturday was spent at the local yarn store, In The Making. While In The Making is moving, they have not yet moved to their new location and are literally just 2 door down from the old location. Easy to find yet! While the Things were napping, I took off leaving them in the capable care of DH looking for a few more Charm Packs from Moda Fabrics. There were 3 packs left in the charm pack colorway (is that the right word for quilters?). Now there is 1. When my new fabric and I made it home, we went to work. The entirety of nap time I had my little sewing machine out and humming along. Someday this quilt will be finished, with a little luck. Something tells me I'll need to send it off to my Aunt Ruth for the final stages because she does own a Longarm machine.

Eventually....

Notice, only Saturday was knitting. Sunday was for spinning. I had managed to spin the last 2 oz in the 8 oz back of BFL from The Woolery on Friday night. I spent an entire episode of NCIS plying the singles together. I have never been more pleased with myself either. I weighed out the 2 oz into 1 oz bumps and spun each oz on a different bobbin. I had less than 6" of difference in lengths on my singles! Doesn't that almost make it seem like I have a clue whats going on in spinning? Eventually the yarn will come off the bobbin and yardage accounted for.

Yardage to be determined...

Friday of course I had to knit a little on my Dr. Watson sweater sleeve Friday over lunch. Slow and steady wins the race but geez I wish it could hurry up a little bit. Time spent knitting does play a part in the sleeves growing but there are so many other things to do! For example, we went to the nearest Bass Pro Shop. If the line hadn't been so long we might have worked to go see Santa. There was no way the boys would wait patiently to sit on Santa's lap so instead we walked and looked at all the animals and the fish tank they have in house. We also stopped for lunch while in the store. You should have seen the size of that peanut butter and jelly sandwich the boys got! HUGE!!!!

See that BIG FISH? Big Fish!!! Look!!! RIGHT THERE!

After Bass Pro we headed over to some outlet malls for a little bit of wandering around and possible shopping. Sometimes my kids do the craziest things that make me feel like a rock star Mom. The bell ringers are already out for Salvation Army. I handed DS2 some change to drop in the bucket. Earlier in the day he had stolen a quarter from his Daddy and placed the quarter in his pocket. As I handed him the change for the bucket (the goal was to head in the direction of the parking lot), he became very distressed when he couldn't locate his quarter. Eventually he found the correct pocket and all the change was placed in the bucket. DS1 raided his Daddy's pockets and his own pocket for change to put in the bucket. Note to self: always keep some change handy for the boys to put in the kettles. My kids may be hellions most days but they are willing to give up their money for a good cause.

Good parenting if I do say so myself.