Catching up

Monday I had a productive day. Tuesday - I paid for it. Tired, exhausted tired, getting dizzy when I stood up wiped out. Wednesday I was pretty tired too.

Monday there was various laundry and dishes and cleaning up done. Then a run out with the kids and fordprfct for lunch, a bookstore run, and a yarn store expedition. fordprfct picked yarn for a baby blanket and I picked yarn for a baby dress. Then home for swatching.

Tuesday afternoon there was more yarn store expeditions - we finally figured out what size needle he needed, and went out to buy them. Also found buttons for the baby sweater I did in the golden yellow. Little blue ladybug buttons. Cute. Finished up watching movies at the house in Euless, then Karl drove me home and I collapsed.

Wednesday my plan was to stay collapsed until it was time to take the kids to Kids' Club at church. Jamie came home from school - in a different outfit, with a note from his teacher that apparently during crafts he dumped an entire bottle of glue on himself. She was apologetic, but said he'd thought it was loads of fun. That's a little boy for you. The kids went outside to play.

Now, we're in the process of getting Jamie those new glasses. The opthamologist made a small change to his prescription, but also pointed out the old frames were too tight for his face. Which explains why he keeps pulling them off, after finally having gotten good about not doing that. Sadly, one of the earpieces where it screws in to the front, has apparently stripped the screws, and keeps coming off when he does so.

Jamie came back from outside yesterday sans glasses. I sent Maggie out to hunt for them - she brought them back, but missing the earpiece. Later I went out and hunted through the yard, and could not find them. We were waiting for the optician to get new frames ordered to try on Jamie, since he'd outgrown the toddler line - I called to see if they were in - they were.

So, unhappily I got the kids loaded up and drove out to Southlake. They confirmed which size frames he needed, and promised to order his lenses immediately. And, amazingly, were able to fix the current pair enough for us to get by. Whew.

Later we went to church for kids' club. They do like that very much. Calvary Cafe was stuff I couldn't eat, so I sat in the library and messed about with my knitting project.

I was so very happy to get home and collapse. I was going to post last night, but we had a power dip and the computer shut down. I took this as a hint and went to bed.

Love and Kisses 1

I *will* get back to the Very Long Sock #2. Honest, I will. But for now I have given into temptation and have cast on for the Love and Kisses baby dress. Except I'm totally rewriting the pattern.

I said "wait, knitting the "waistband" ribbon in two pieces? Picking the front of the skirt off one and knitting it in the flat, and then doing the back of the skirt the same way, and sewing them together later? Idiotic. Stupid designer. This is what comes of knitting designers who are really sewers. Knit the thing in the round!" Except - well, then I had to take directions for several different skirt panels, which have DIFFERENT row repeats, and convert them into knitting in the round, rather than back and forth in the flat. I'm not even dealing with where they start having an increase on each side of each heart later on.

You know, if you're going to have multiple pattern motifs, they could at least all have right/wrong sides be on even/odd rows! I have finally figured out a use for those huge "broomstick" knitting needles I disdain. I want to get some and BEAT this designer with them.

However, I am making *some* progress. The row I'm currently on, however, is like this:

*p2, tw2L k2, tw2R, k2, tw2R, p2, Tw2L, p2, k4, yo, sl2-k1-p2sso, yo, k1, yo, sl2-k1-p2sso, yo, k4, p2, tw2L* repeat between asterisks twice more, then p2, tw2L k2, tw2R, k2, tw2R, p2, Tw2L, p3 - then repeat ALL of it for the second side.

Yeah, this is just a tad masochistic. Actually, the bad thing was not realizing that this was the row where it stopped being p2, K14, p2, and started being p2, k4, yo, sl2-k1-p2sso, yo, k1, yo, sl2-k1-p2sso, yo, k4, p2 - and then I had to tink back a half row, taking out all those TW2L and TW2R stitches.

I just hope this thing gets appreciated when it's done. I mean, obviously not by the planned recipient. I don't expect her to appreciate it. I expect her to spit up on it. But by the other adults who see it.