New projects

Have not been working on my little baby cardigan for a while but I did start a couple of new projects. One was a blue car seat blankie for Monica's baby to be.....a boy. I got tired of that and so I started and finished (because it was so quick) a Birthday Cowl for a friend who is having...you guessed it....a birthday! I bought the Drops Silke Alpaca in Vancouver while I was there recently. I have decided that Urban Yarns in one of my fav stores. I still need to block the cowl before gifting it and finish the blanket before the birth of the little one.

Made with Love

I am so looking forward to a few days off work. Some brainiac scheduled me for 2 evening shifts and then a day shift! Too tired to even think about this except for that the person that makes a schedule that jumps around so much only works m-f 8-4. Sigh.
Started and finished the cutest little newborn hat on Valentines day. It is for a baby in the making.
Two of my friends are due in March...so hopefully one of them has a girl because I think this hat is a bit girly.

200 crunches

Woohoo! I have discovered a new fitness website. 200 Crunches! It is from the same guy who developed the 100 Push-ups site. My plan is to take the initial test to see how many I can do and then start the plan. It is a good idea to take a day of rest between the test and starting the 6 week plan. During that time you can knit. LOL.
I was doing the push-ups but I sort of quit or faded away from doing them? Anyway, I should start that again. Running has sort of gone by the wayside again......but the roads are crappy for running right now and I don't feel like being the next candidate for the surgery wait list game.
Besides, I would rather xc-ski or snowshoe right now. The last time I was out on the snowshoes my binding broke and I had to do an emergency field repair with a zap-strap. Ha! Take that McGyver!
Almost finished my nephews sweater! Yay! One more sleeve to go....good thing there are only 2.

Plodding along...

Here I am slowly plodding along through this sweater for my nephew. I started great guns to get this done by Feb 13th...his birthday but WORK! has interfered once again. I hate that 4 letter word sometimes. Sigh. Plus it would have helped if I didn't read 3 novels in the meantime. LOL. Been out snowshoeing and xc-skiing lots too but for me that is a necessity so it doesn't count for having no time to knit. Well he's turning 4 and I think he will be OK with a late prezzie from an aunt he hardly sees since we live so far apart. Hoping to make a trip this spring or summer. OK, off to knit at Timmy's.

Happy Day

Oh happy happy day! I found some yarn:)
I contacted Ruth (from the Willow Basket) and she HAS SOME of the yarn I need to finish my baby cardi!!!!! Yay. I know someone would come through for me.
Of course I still have to drive out to her studio to get it but that is OK. Her website is unfortunately having technical difficulties so it is unavailable right now. I remember taking a business card when I made my last purchase at the store and I tucked into my set of Denise needles just in case. Glad I did:)
I decided after the very full day that was Sunday that I needed to take Monday off. Got the laundry done, tidied up around the house a bit, sorted through the bills etc. and made a big veggie lasagne and a spinach salad. Is it still a day off? Whatever....it felt like it.
Went skiing again on Tuesday though.....for about 3 hours. Hot bath and knitting was all I was good for by then.

yarn miscalculation

Darn! I did it again!
I miscalculated the amount of yarn I had left. I started a cute little cabled cardigan for my friends baby to be and I used a ball of yarn that I had hardly even started to knit up from a previous project. Apparently I knit up a bit more than I thought. If anyone has any King Cole Big Value Baby DK in white ( or cream I guess it is....colour #046 anyway) that they would be willing to part with, I would appreciate it. I am not concerned about the lot # because I have only the 2 sleeves and the button bands to do. It is a very small cardi...sz 0-3 months. The lot # is 35386.
The last few days here have been pretty cold but it hasn't stopped us from getting outside for a bit of xc-skiing. We have a few fav routes that we like to do and the one we did the last couple of days takes about an hour.....though on Saturday we went around twice just to get the ski tracks established. The sun was out and it was a beautiful day. Once you get out there and get moving it is hardly cold at all. Felt pretty good actually.
On Sunday we did the same trail and then I went roller skating with Karen. Fun, Fun, Fun. Went to stitch'n'b but I found it a bit too crowded so I quickly said hi to everyone, enjoyed a cup of javva and went on my way. Decided to see if Todd stopped by the bass players house to jam and while there I got an impromptu invite to dinner. Yum. I had wondered what I was going to do about dinner...
Got home at 1 a.m. Very tired.

Time Flies.

Well. I can't believe how much time has flown by since the last time I blathered on about anything. I finally got back to see everyone at SNB....was great to catch up:) Well at least I went 1 week (in a row?...LOL).
Todd & I decided to check out the property and shovel off the roof....just in case. No need to have to shovel the snow from INSIDE the house. What a beautiful day! We brought the snowshoes so that we could actually walk instead of trying to wade through thigh high snow.


I started a cardigan for my friend's baby-to-be even though I told myself NO new projects until I finished off my other wip's! Ha! Good Luck with that. I did manage to finish a pair of cabled ankle socks for g-baby #2.