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July 25, 2006

Project Limbo

The sleeves are done and sewn and packed up and gone:

I'm waiting for the yarn to make this:

As well as yarn and the green light for my next few "work" projects. I still have about a thousand socks on the needles and Tadpole's sweater is just missing the neck. That's about all that's happening here because the "project" I work on every day is trying to learn to crawl. And she's has decided that she wants to "help" so I gave her a rejected piece of the project that just got mailed. She thinks frogging's a blast and Rowan Scottish Aran Tweed is yummy. I see a future knitter.

Posted by kate at 05:45 PM | Comments (33)

July 13, 2006

The sleeves that never end

These are the sleeves that never end
They just go on and on my friend
This knitter started knitting them not knowing what they were
And now she'll keep on knitting them forever just because
These are the sleeves that never end
They just go on and on my friend
This knitter started knitting them not knowing what they were
And now she'll keep on knitting them forever just because
...

Posted by kate at 11:11 PM | Comments (18)

July 11, 2006

This is snot vacation

Reasons why this "vacation" sucks:
1. Tadpole is sick (but thankfully much better now).
2. I am sick. I'm a lot better, but am still snotting, coughing, etc. everywhere. I can't sleep and am giving myself headaches with all of my hacking.
3. I had figured that between my mom, dad, sister and sister's SO, there would be plenty of people around to amuse Tadpole which would give me lots of time to work and be productive. The flu-like virus took care of that. I lost a whole week of work and am now behind with a deadline looming.
4. I somehow overlooked that my sweater needed sleeves. And sleeves take time to knit. And I didn't plan time to knit them. And I'm behind on the rest of the sweater anyway.
5. The emails don't stop when I'm sick. I have about a million flagged emails that I need to respond to. I'm way behind. My apologies to every one. I'm trying hard to catch up.

Reasons why this "vacation" is good:
1 and 2. Mom and Dad - If I had been home alone with Tadpole last Friday, I would have died. And then starved. And then passed out. And then died again. And Frog would have come home and found Tadpole trying to nurse off of my half-dead body that would probably be slumped on the floor.
3 and 4. Sis and her SO - They managed to make Tadpole smile even when she felt crappy.
5. Food. Food's always better at mom's house, no? Especially when you don't cook it.

I'll be back to my knitting and (sporatically) blogging self soon.

Posted by kate at 02:13 PM | Comments (16)