So, I go into my room today and see some double pointed needles on the ground. I think, "Hmmm...that's strange. What are those doing there?" Then stop...think some more...then immediately start to panic. SURELY those aren't the needles that are currently in the sock I'm knitting, RIGHT?!?!!?!?! I pick them up. I head to the basket where my sock is laying...or rather, was laying. It's not there. "Oh crap. Oh crap. Oh crap." Take a quick scan of the room and don't see the sock...you know...the one that I was well on my way to finishing...the one I've been working on for almost a week. Then I see it. The sock? Oh no...not the sock. The kinky yarn. Not kinky in a good way...kinky in the way that means it was once something knit...yes...that kind of kinky. I pick it up. I hear the patter of little feet behind me and before I even turn around I hear, "I not do it!" Only, it's in the tone of voice that tells you that she most certainly did do it. I turn around to see my sweet, angelic, beautiful two year old...with fear in her eyes. "I not touch dat...you say no touch...I not touch it. Efan did it." Enter Ethan. "Ethan, did you do this?" "Do what?" "This!" "No," and he turns and walks away...confirming what I already knew...he didn't do it. Otherwise, he'd be the one still standing in the room with fear in their eyes. "Hagen did it!" exclaims my two year old. Only problem is...Caitlin is still at school. She's been there all day. "Sera, did you do this? Did you take the needles out of my knitting and pull the yarn? Tell me the truth." "I sorry Mommy." She was so sad. That little stinker. She's lucky she's so cute.

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it's because I'm buried in a mountain of yarn. Caitlin had the bright idea that she wanted me to knit her a dress to wear to my brother's wedding in May. Of course, that means Emma wanted one too...and Sera...and since it would look strange for three of my girls to have the same dress and not the fourth, we had to throw Allie in there as well. So, we found the dress:



And they picked their yarn:

Caitlin:
Emma:
Sera:
Allie: (well, she didn't pick it...I did)


Of course, Caitlin has to be difficult and can't find a single color of yarn in the proper weight, and fell in LOVE with a yarn in a different weight, so now I have to go and do math. Ugh. According to Yarnhog, math lies...so, this should be fun. I think I'll make her dress last.

If, come May, I haven't resurfaced, it means the yarn has smothered me. :(

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So, the girls asked me to teach them how to finger knit today. Cole was feeling a bit left out because he wasn't there when I taught them. So, he asked me if I could teach him how to knit a hat...with real needles! Let me preface this by saying that I SUCK at teaching. I cannot teach. The thought of homeschooling never crossed my mind because my kids would suffer greatly. I am in awe of teachers. I just can't do it.

Anyways...So, I'm thinking, "How on earth can I possibly teach this kid to knit?" Not only can I not teach, but he's only five! Can a five year old really learn how to knit? Well...see for yourself! :D



He's currently up in his room, knitting himself a hat!

Oh, and for those reading this that can knit, I knit continental. I tried teaching him that way, but he was having a hard time with it, so I taught him to throw, which he caught onto right away!

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YAY!!!! I got my Ravelry Invite! I'm currently setting up my profile, making a list of my stash, queuing up my projects and getting ready to delve into it all! You'll probably notice that I'm going to start using tags for my posts because Ravelry supports RSS feeds and I only want my knitting posts to be grabbed for my profile, so to distinguish them from others, I'll start using tags. Anyways, if you're on Ravelry, I'm kealoha. Say Hi!

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Yesterday I decided to start knitting a Sophie Bag. By the time I went to bed last night, it was done! It was a really nice distraction from the hats that I've been working on. (Although, my last two hats have been crocheted, so I was able to finish them in a couple of hours) I don't have a picture yet, but will take a picture when I've shaved it. It was my first foray into the world of felting, and I must say, it turned out pretty well! I was concerned that the bag might turn out larger than I intended it to because by the time I was done knitting it, it was seriously the size of one of those reusable grocery tote bags. I was planning on it being the size of a smallish purse. Apparently I had NOTHING to worry about though because, after felting, it turned out the size of a TINY purse. LOL Drake says he doesn't want me using it because it would look stupid for a grown woman to be carrying around what looks like a toy purse. I think it's adorable though and absolutely plan on using it!

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Less than 14,000 people ahead of me on the Ravelry waiting list! YAY!!! Just under 2,000 people behind me. I can't believe how quickly that list is growing!

I got new glasses! I LOOOOOOOOOVE them! I thought I loved my old glasses. I love these ones even more! I'm going to dye my hair while Drake is gone (because he hates me dying my hair) so I'll post a picture of my new glasses and my new hair in a few days!

Since Drake has been working so many hours lately, we decided to meet up for lunch yesterday. I had forgotten something at home, so we ran home to get it. He went inside to get it. He came back to the car with a box and a not too happy look on his face. "$***** Katie!?!?!?!? How can you spend $**** on YARN?!?!?!" (Amount censored because it was a bit ridiculous) I didn't know whether to look sheepish and ashamed because he was obviously upset, or to squeal with glee because my knitpicks order had come in three days before it was scheduled to arrive. Darn credit card being in his name...the package was addressed to him!

I'm SO thrilled with my options needles and the yarn I got is just yummy! I can start on the hats now!!!!! I also got my teeny tiny dpns and some sock yarn! YAY!!!!!

I don't think it helped that just before we came home and he found this package, we were at Michael's buying more yarn and needles. I do, however, now have the right size needles to start on my purses! Yay!!!

Last night I made myself a little "works in progress" box. It's keeping my yarn nicely organized! Go Katie!

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I like to be awake when Drake gets home from work, so here I sit, bored out of my mind. It's 11:30 pm and Drake has no idea what time he'll get home. He only got to work at...oh...8:30 this morning. :( He had already worked more than 40 hours this week before he even went into work this morning, so by end of day Saturday (because he will be working on Saturday) he'll probably have worked 80 hours or so this week. :( Poor guy. I know the long hours are hard on him. I know he wants to be home with the family. I know he hates feeling like he barely closed his eyes and all of a sudden it's time to go back to work. I feel selfish thinking about how much I hate him working long hours, but I do. It's hard on the kids to not see their dad at all during the day...especially since he's leaving for a week starting Saturday. Caitlin has been asking me when she's going to be able to spend some time with him before he leaves and I just don't know how to tell her that she's not going to be able to. Even Allie seems to be having a hard time not having him around these past few days. He's usually there to put her to sleep. Tonight she screamed for hours, refusing to go to sleep. I'm fairly certain it's because she's used to Drake putting her to bed.

Anyways, enough of that mopey sadness. New revelry waiting list stats:

• You signed up on October 2, 2007
• You are #38828 on the list.
• 14957 people are ahead of you in line.
• 1053 people are behind you in line.
• 59% of the list has been invited so far

Moving on up!

I went and bought some new yarn today. (Shhhh...don't tell Drake. When I get sad...I shop.) I bought this GORGEOUS bamboo yarn. It's so luxuriously soft. I could only find three skeins from the same dye lot and they're really small, so I don't know what I'm going to make with it. I started a baby blanket, but I don't think I'm going to have enough of the yarn, so I think I'll frog it and decide to make something else. I was thinking maybe a sweater for Allie, but she's just going to drool all over it, so it's probably going to turn out to be a shirt for Caitlin. I think I'll have just enough for that. I also bought some wool yarn to make a felted purse for my sister for Christmas. (Now I'm hoping she doesn't read this. LOL Then again, I have three sisters, so they have no idea which one I'm talking about.) I also bought some soy/wool blend yarn to make the same purse for myself. I have to find the right size needles for the purse though. I KNOW I bought some quite a while back...it's just a matter of finding them. I really must get organized. You should see my yarn stash. It's such a mess. Just four more days until more yarn and needles come in the mail! YAY!!! The hat I'm knitting is on hold until I find my missing dpn. :( I should take some pictures of everything I'm working on...after I get my stash under control. It's a serious mess.

*Sigh* It would be nice if Drake would get home before midnight. He's got 17 minutes. Yeah, I don't see that happening. Perhaps before one? A girl can dream, right? lol

Anyways, off to find something to do to keep myself busy. I suppose I could clean the house. That's no fun though. lol

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So, I've been hearing about this site, Ravelry, on all sorts of knitting blogs lately. (Yes, I'm a dork and read knitting blogs) It looks like SUCH an awesome site! It's only in beta, so they're slowly inviting beta testers. I signed up to be on the waiting list to be a beta tester yesterday. I just checked my place in line.

• You signed up on Yesterday
• You are #38828 on the list.
• 16610 people are ahead of you in line.
• 282 people are behind you in line.
• 56% of the list has been invited so far

So, still over 16,000 beta testers ahead of me. It could be worse. I could be one of the 282 people who signed up after I did. LOL

Since I'm chatting a bit about knitting, I'll give you a list of the things I'm working on right now. I just finished a hat out of some yummy soft galenas wool yarn, dyed by Three Irish Girls in their Elsbeth colorway. It's beautiful! I knit it flat though and decided I just don't like hats with seams, so I'm using the rest of the skein to make the same hat, but a little bit bigger and in the round. This is my first attempt at cables. I was a bit worried, but they're turning out okay. I have issues with tension though...especially when going from knit to purl. I've got to work on that. On another set of needles I have a pair of pants going. I lost my second skein of yarn though, so those are on hold until I can find it. LOL

Coming in the mail I have the knitpicks options set of needles. I've been very limited in what I can do because I just don't have enough needles to do all of the projects I want to do. So, hopefully this will alleviate this issue a bit. I also bought their set of 1-3 dpns so I can start on some socks! I bought some sock yarn (in burgandy) to make myself a pair of socks and some yarn (in Volcano Twist) to make my little sister a pair. She's all emo, so I thought she might like a pair of knee highs made out of this.

I'm in a homemade hat swap on Friends and Families, so I bought the yarn to make the four hats that I signed up to make. I have an adult woman's hat to make, two young girl's hats and one young boy's hat to make. So, I ordered all of the yarn for those and when it arrives on the 8th, it should be all hats, all the time around here. lol

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