Big news around here!

None of it is the slightest bit knitting related though. ;)

Brad went back to work yesterday! He is walking without crutches and can actually get his poor swollen foot into a work boot. He worked a few hours yesterday, took some cows to Mandan and looked at one of ours (#12 is sick again!). Today he says his foot is hurting already and he's coming home for an afternoon dentist appointment.

Evelyn has peed AND pooped in the potty!! Not consistently, but still, it's a start! And she's already figured out the "I'll try sitting on the potty to see if I get M&Ms" trick. Little stinker.

I bought plane tickets to visit my dad in Florida in February! I can't wait. The girls and I will have so much fun playing on the beach all day long. We are in desperate need of some Vitamin D sun therapy around here.

Just so Olivia isn't left out, the biggest thing in her world right now is that Christmas decorations around town are being taken down. ;) I swear she remembers where each and every one was. "Mommy, they take the angel down? And the bell?" In Olivia's world, Christmas is "tomorrow" so it's okay. hehe!

Off to work. Inventory time. Ugh!

What the best dressed chickens are wearing today

Ear warmer hat from Ky Baby Knits knit in Swish Superwash colors ballerina and bubblegum.



Knitting Pure & Simple Children's Tunic #232 in Blue Faced Leiceister dyed by Selah in Lisa's Lilac City colorway.



Little Turtle Knits King of all Wild Things crown in Cascade 220.

If I got off the computer, and ignored the piles of laundry and the messy living room, I could probably finish the sweater today or tomorrow. Hopefully I will have a pair of cute hats to share soon too. And I make no promises whatsoever about the laundry. I just can't figure out how to get it to fold itself....

Fetching ...

Nope, not just for dogs. ;)

It's been a long, long time since I blogged anything, so I'm trying to get back into doing that. Of course for the past few weeks I've been knitting stuff I couldn't share on my blog, seeing as the only people who read are likely to be the ones I was knitting for!

These weren't a Christmas gift, though, just a spur-of-the-moment quick knit for my aunt Laurie. Pattern is Fetching, which is currently the most popular WIP (work-in-progress) on Ravelry. So, either people there aren't marking their projects as finished, or they're just making millions of them, because this took me 2 days. Very easy! I do think the yarn was a bit bulky for the pattern - if I make more I'll be using a lighter weight yarn. The yarn is Mission Falls 1824 Wool and I used size 5 needles. The pattern calls for 6s but those would've been way too big for auntie Laurie's little hands. They are a tad big as it is!

Happy New Year everyone ~ hope you have a wonderful 2008! It is 10:35 here but I have already watched the ball drop (yay time zones! hehe) so I don't feel the need to make it to midnight. I told Olivia that tomorrow was the beginning of a new year, the year 2008, when she would turn 4, and she looked at me as though I had sprouted a second head. I'm pretty sure that concept went straight over her head, so I don't imagine she'd entertain sleeping in on New Year's day either.

Mommy, will you make me a bacteria?

Well, how could you ignore a request as nice as that? So I did. And I need to make one for little sister too of course. The bacteria is on the blanket because Olivia said "The baby didn't want to be by the bacteria." Well, I guess I can't blame her. She probably really knows what bacteria are. ;)

Fresh Blue Longies

Are you sick of baby pants yet? ;)

I hadn't knit any longies in quite a while, it seemed. Evelyn had been going to daycare a lot, and she hasn't worn her fancy wool pants to daycare yet. So she wasn't needing any more, so I started knitting other things. But her long-distance "boyfriend" Mr. Liam was needing a pair of pants, so I ordered some 100Pure Wool for him. The colorway is "Fresh Blue" and the trim is "Azul Profundo." These pants seem to be HUGE to me, maybe because Evelyn is such a peanut, and the inseam length is nearly 13"....but at any rate, I am desperately hoping they fit Liam, and not his older brother!!

The photo is pretty lousy. Absolutely no sun for the past week here, and this was a pathetic (silly?) attempt to use the bottom of the girls' new play tent as a photographic backdrop. Not highly recommended, mostly because your husband will give you really goofy looks when you ask him to hold the tent upside-down. ;)



The hat is LTK Earwarmer hat just like Evelyn's, one size bigger. So it fits Olivia, and she was happy to model, of course. :) She wants a hat from Mommy too, so I'll have to find some time to knit her something cute.

"King Castle" Crown and hat updates

Ta da, drum roll please, the "King Castle" (dubbed by Olivia) crown is finished. It looks quite nice, it's perhaps a little small for Evelyn but now I know to knit the next size up for Olivia's. And, Olivia loved it so much, she really really wanted to wear it but I said no because it was drying (and I wasn't lying!). I hid it when she took a nap. She asked about it today again. "Mommy, the King Castle still drying?" Yup, honey, it is. In fact, it will probably be drying until December 25. ;) Mental note: Only took me 2 days to knit, so do Olivia's crown much much closer to Christmas! Hers is going to be purple and lime green.

And, because I know you were all wondering, the drama of the hats has ended quite well. Evelyn's earwarmer hat was in daddy's pickup (whoa! he actually put hats on them? amazing!), still doesn't have a pom-pom. I know they're ridiculously easy to make but I don't really get it. Soon I'll figure it out. And, I put my Dahlia cabled hat in the dryer with some clothes, and it shrunk!! Woohoo! It fits now. I do need to get pictures taken. I wish I had enough yarn left for matching mittens for me, but I probably don't. I have a few pairs of pants for some friends that I'm currently knitting so I may just cast on mittens after that. Or, I could get cracking on those Christmas gifts that I just got yarn for! ;)

Crowns for Chickens

Little Turtle Knits King of All Wild Things crown in Cascade 220. Pre-felting, of course, and these pictures were too cute not to share before the felting has even been finished. Much, much cuter than the big ugly chicken:

Off to do some of my husband's laundry so I have an open washer for felting!