Hello Again!

Well April has been crazy! So I have not had much time to post. Part of the problem is this

Yep, that is her in all her Mobile cruising around the house 8 month glory! She is fast!!!

However, I have finished a few things since my last post. I made Kennedy the cutest pair of socks! My Mom sent me yarn for the pattern Lion Brand elephant socks! They are SOOO cute. I love them.

I have also made a new hat for Kennedy from the Itty Bitty Knits book . This is a fabulous book. Beautifully done and great patterns. A must for any knitter who knits fro babies and toddlers. The hats are TOO CUTE.

I made Kennedy the Upside-Down Daisy hat.
I used the purple yarn that was left over from the elephant socks and some green and white from my yarn stash. Kennedy seems to like the hat and I could not be happy with how the lion brand wool-ease knits up and looks in the hat version!

The other part of my time goes to this little person.
It is lacrosse season again and with that homework and family I have had NO time. I did manage to finish another pair of socks for me!

And I restarted Kennedy's Blossom dress:

So I promise to have more regular posts...I hope!

Knitting two socks at once on circulars or how to really make yourself crazy!

I got this great and beautiful knitting book, Knitting circles around socks and I love it. So, I started trying to teach myself the technique. The directions are clear, the photo diagrams above average, so I decided the Hell with it lets try it.  Let me say, that it probably takes getting used to, as does any technique, so I was a little awkward at it.  Finally, I go all my stitches on arranged and the loops closed, I even knitted another round, YEAH! Then tragedy struck, the baby woke up screaming, (she does this to let me know she is in charge:) and I rushed to put the knitting down and get up when I pulled on the stitches and ripped them right off the needle! Yes, I know I should have out point protectors on first, UGH! F&*King S*&T was what came out of my mouth.  (For everyone wondering what I am exposing my baby too, she was in her crib upstairs, but her monitor was right next to my ear).

So now I am taking a break from it I was so pissed at myself!  It took me a while to get it, read and process it and then CO so it was pretty devastating even though it was only 2 rows.  

Now I am back to knitting the formerly hibernating Blossom dress for Kennedy in Bamboo.  I love the yarn and decided that it will be a closer weight if I knit it with 2 strands at a time, plus it will go a lot faster and since this is a stockinette pattern that can get boring to this non- mediatative knitter I need to see progress.  

For now I am back to having the sock book mock me from my coffee table.....

Happy Birthday!!!!

Happy Birthday to me. Happy Birthday to me!!! Happy birthday to me! So now, I am going to go spend my day the best way: No work, lots of Wine, knitting, taking a bath, playing on ravelry, and  shopping. Oh and I am not cooking so dinner, so I am not sure what my family is gone to eat.  Oh well it is MY DAY!

In fact look at what I already got from my mom:

and this

Now to purchase some yarn.  Ohh I am tingling!!!!

Oh and I haven't  forgotten, Later I will be posting the winners of the Miss Muskrat and the Little Miss Muskrat World Contest!  I am not kidding!