Weekly Update 7/6

Here’s my weekly rundown. 

On the Tour de France KAL front I’ve been knitting but getting no where. Case in point, here’s my sleeve:

yeah. It’s looked like that 4 different times now. I had a great conversation with Becky about what to do since I didn’t like the sleeve as it was written and can not remember what the final plan was. However, I do remember the rest of the conversation enough that I’m forging ahead with trial and error. I will wear this sweater this fall. I Will.

My SOS08 update:

Still plugging away on my Flying Monkeys. My goal is 3 or 4 pairs by the end of summer (that’s Sept 21) so I think I’m right on track. Especially considering that one pair will probably be done on Laura’s CSM (they won’t count towards my official SOS total but they will count towards my personal goal and my pile of socks to wear this winter!)

I’m working on some things for my secret pal. I wish I could share them but I can’t take the risk of them seeing it and catching on to me. I will take pictures and add them to my Ravelry projects page after the fact.

I suppose that’s about it. Weather’s been good. I haven’t ordered anything for myself except another set of size 1 needles (but really, can a girl have too many pairs of sock needles?) and they’re more of a replacement pair than an additional pair (and 3 pairs of US sz 1 is not a lot). And tomorrow I have to go buy some size 7 dpns for my sleeves but that’s about it.

Hope you had a safe and happy Independence Day (and Canada day for my northern friends!) and weekend!

Monday, Again?

Well, It’s Monday, I last posted Saturday so I’m posting again.

Nothing fiber related today. I’m still knitting away on my bag and socks. I did finally lengthen my first sweater. Much happier with it now. Truthfully, Mom helped me rip it out. It wasn’t the actual ripping I needed help with, it was the mental aspect of ripping the ribbing out of my sweater. We had a drink after it was all ripped out and the stitches picked back up. I was the one who needed it, Mom just was being supportive.

Speaking of Mom, as a few of you may know, Mom is a vegetarian. So being a good daughter, I bought her a tofurkey roast. We roasted it with onions, carrots and potatoes as recommended. We basted it. We made vegetarian gravy. Luke really enjoyed the tofurkey. Mom and I thought the onions, carrots and potatoes turned out well. But the gravy wasn’t all bad. So all was not lost.

We also baked bread. One in the bread machine (sourdough… mmmmm) and one from a mix it was wheat beer bread. Both were most yummy.

I have a new feature on my sidebar. It’s a wish list. It’s not the kind of wish list where I really expect y’all to buy me things from it but it’s a fun place to list things I want for my memory as much as anything else. Plus I was having probably too much fun naming everything. But ya know, if you win the lotto or something and feel like you want to buy me presents, then, please, feel free to purchase anything on the list for me.

Crash and Burn

As y’all know I’m knitting on my Rosedale cardigan for le Tour de France KAL. That’s my “at home” project but I need a little something to carry to work with me and other such places. So I’ve been working on a sock. A sock I’ve not been so happy with. Mostly my mood I think, it’s turning out just fine. So today, I thought I’d start my Dad’s sock so I could carry it around with me (I’ve found for me, short row toes are best done at home). So after I went to Ukrop’s (and bought a yummy croissant for breakfast), I watched le Tour and cast on for his sock. I did my little swatch, I figured out how many to cast on and I was off. As the leaders are zipping across the finish line, I realized I had messed up. Badly. I could’ve patched it but it would’ve looked BAD. I ripped the whole toe out. I’d rather knit a good toe (especially for Dad and his first pair of knitted socks) so it’s not that big of a deal, but I’m really glad I didn’t have to rip out anything on my sweater. The two of us have finally reached an agreement and we’re just sailing along I don’t want any more problems. The moral of this story? While short row toes are best done at home, they are not recommended knitting while watching le Tour de France.

Since I haven’t made a lot of progress since my last sweater picture, and I have no picture of a sock that doesn’t yet exist, I’m going to tell you that if you click on the link for the TdF KAL, you can get some wonderful looking French recipes and see what everyone else is up to. Because you know, what are knitters if not enablers?

Edited to Add: I forgot one of the main reasons I started this post today. Knitnana tagged me as a:

How cool is that?! So I’m supposed to tag 5 people now. She tagged most of our knitting group’s bloggers (which I think y’all all are Rockin’ Girl Bloggers too!) so I’m going to stay (mostly) local too:

Dianne
Dana
Marianne
Mary
Robin H

The best part about this “tag”. You don’t really have to do anything! You can tag people but there’s no list of questions to answer or pictures to post or anything. Just enjoy…