60 days and counting.

So I have been super busy with work, holidays and getting ready for my wedding. Also for awhile my laptop wasn't working with the website so I haven't been able to get on and blog at all.....super sucky.

I don't have any immediate new knitting plans since most of my time is taken by the kids and work and free days are now all about the wedding, so knitting time has been cut way down :( Also I am going to the gym to work out for the wedding. Josh is changing his diet since he can't work out.

I am torn between working on two kals. One for Mamacita and the other for Trowbridge. I have two travelling scarves I am working on as well. I am a terrible person for even thinking of knitting at the moment, there is so much work that needs to get done. I suck at time management.

All these thoughts in my head and the kids are running around like crazy heads. My mom is watching them but they are still a distraction.

Going Knitting Crazy

An outlet for my sadness ie I am feeling pretty horribe today

Projects I am currently working on

• Socks on a Plane for Pandia's Jewels KAL 
• Teapot cosy for my swap partner

I have not been knitting as much as I would like. I only have time at night anymore and by then after I have put the kids to bed and ran around all day I am tired and just want to sleep. I would really appreciate if I could get a break now and again but I am a mom and this is what I do. I work, I get complaints that I don't do work around the house and then I don't even get talked to usually after dinner. yay......


I just want some adult time with other adults talking about more than little kid things or explaining all the things around us and what his brother did and how we can't pull, hit or lick our brother...no matter how much he told you he wanted that. Some real quality talk BESIDES talking about our plans for the zombie apocalypse. It would be nice if we could talk about the wedding for example or the new movies that we haven't seen, maybe that doctor's appointment that you went to that you said was fine but tell other people in detail what the doctor said and did. I would also really like a hug from you or some sign of affection and you telling me that I am doing a good job because all I seem to hear is what I am doing wrong and  it makes me feel bad. Then I get upset with you and then you don't talk to me even more than normal.

I am going to attempt to knit AND finish the Fourth Doctor's Scarf this year. I will be using the Season 12 pattern and Vanna's Choice yarn, this is part of the Osgood KAL. I got the yarn from Joann's it was on sale and I used a 10% off total purchase coupon.
http://tardis.clanteam.com/scarf/scarfimg.php?&flip=y&showpercent=y&rows=85



Yarn colors:
Brick
Taupe
Lamb
Burgundy
Honey
Duckie
Olive


This is on top of the socks that I am going to make for a KAL and a Dream Stripes shawl for the Winter Olympics KAL . Yay life!

 Projects I want to work on

• Dream Stripes-Ravellenics
• Socks on a Plane- KAL
• Downtown Abbey MKAL 2014-side project
• One Ring Scarf-Ravellenics

So here I am....not dead. It has been almost two months since I had my son Nikola and I have had very little time for knitting. It is hard enough trying to keep the house clean with my 3 year old tornado running around.

I finished the Holden Shawlette, still need to block it. I started the Westknits Mystery Kal and it is still sitting on the needles. I got tired of all those stitches.....yuck! I am currently working on a sweater for Grandma Mary.

 

 

I learned how to sew because I signed up for a project bag swap. Here is the bag that I sent out with some other goodies(chocolate, fabric quarters and yummy yarn not pictured here).

 

 

As soon as I finish the sweater I might finish blanket for Nikola finally...or start a whole new project like a hat or a shawl that I keep saying I am going to make.



 

 



Life can get exhausting.

I feel overwhelmed by everyone asking me "O how are you doing?" " Are you ready for the baby?" "Do you have everything you need?" "How do you feel?" " Wow, You are so big. When are you due?" "Are you having two?" It is not helping me, I am stressed out enough. Please stop with all the questions. I knit to destress but the current Kal I am working on is starting to become overwhelming. There are waaaaaaay too many stitches and they just keep increasing. I am not even done with the twenty rows from the first clue and clue three was released yesterday. I just want to give up and hide until I have the baby but this weekend is the weekend that the Travelling Wall is here and my grandpa is co-chair. I was there yesterday and I am going again today after I go shopping and a birthday party way down in the valley when all I really want is to get a manicure and hide.

Feeling pretty good.

I have finished my Wharf cowl and the sweater I was testing. I will post pictures in the morning hopefully. I haven't decided if I am going to block my sweater right now or not since that means that I would have to go out and buy blocking pins since I don't seem to own any anymore.....thank you moving boxes for losing all my stuff.

I tried the sweater on and it surprisingly fit me even with the belly bump. I am glad that I made the torso longer. Josh liked the curling of the hem at the bottom, I am still not sold on it.

Now that I am done with the projects that I had on needles I am wondering if I should start anything new yet or if I should wait. I do have two KAL's coming up, Pandia's Jewels(Holden Shawlette) and the SW Mystery Shawl on the 14th and 13th this month. but ten days seems so far away......I am getting fidgety also I am avoiding working on the blanket that I am making for Nikola (the baby in my belly). It is a worsted weight Red Heart blankey which makes it super warm on my lap when I am working on it. With the weather these days I am avoiding heat as much as possible, even when my a/c is turned down to 76 degrees I am still sweaty sticky hot! I can't wait for my internals to get back to normal.