just another monday morning (or afternoon)

Ah, I am here. I am! This week has been hectic with sickness, and rescheduling, and last minute play dates for people not sick, celebrations of various shapes and sizes, and much needed time spent with family. It was my mom’s birthday this past week, and my sister crocheted her a cupcake! You have no idea how exciting that is to me! That my sister…is now on ravelry and is embarking on the crafty creating life that I love so much! Very exciting to me.

As for me…I’ve been working with someone super cool, to update this space of mine…to refresh it…give it a new life of it’s own…to get it ready for a clean start…clean slate, or something like that. On so many levels I am ready to physically move on and I think this additional change just mirrors that energetic shift in some way. NOTE: Google Friend Connect will no longer be connecting fun blogs like this one, so…please take a minute to subscribe to Feed Burner up at the top of my page…or follow me on twitter. Those two seem to be the best options for now. Silly how computer stuff has to change like that! But I think Google has much larger plans at attempting to rule the world…or at least online spaces, making fine lines on who gets to stay and who doesn’t.

But anyways, the days are ticking down till our move date…two weeks and five days to be exact…and with each one we get more excited. I made Hawthorn and Bella an advent calendar-ish countdown chart. So they check off each day so they can see how close we are till the big day. I think that helped a lot because I don’t hear the, “How long till we move?” question every five seconds anymore.

I am finished my five hour baby sweater (just need to add some buttons). I love it and will most likely knit up another one. Although it is hard to keep track time wise of how long something takes me, with putting it down, picking it up, putting it down…you know how it goes…all I can say that is was a quick progress sweater. I don’t know about five hours, but probably pretty close. I learned how to do a slip stitch seam on the sleeves (shown in that first picture up there), which was new to me. It gives a really good solid sleeve construction though. Thanks to You Tube and a video I found on how to crochet one…I learned something new, which always makes a knitting project even more exciting to me. I did find the need to make some minor additions and adjustments to the pattern and will post my notes on my Ravelry page soon. I took the opportunity last week to update my page over there with some of my past projects.

I would love to know of any kid or adult size sweaters that are knit in the same way; neck down, each sleeve, and then the rest. I am new to sweater making, but this knit has me inspired to remedy that. So…if you have any leads of sweaters for larger human beings…leave me some ideas  in the comments. I’d so appreciate it! I look forward to being back in this space this week.