Monday

Tonight for dinner we had Black Bean and Corn Enchiladas. Then Strawberry Corn Muffins for dessert. Yum! I got a lot done today and am very pleased with myself. I got rid of baby clothes made muffins and a yummy dinner and did a ton of laundry! Unfortunately very little knitting got done. I was really hoping to finish baby hat #3. Little bug did a lot of playing too. Somehow getting a lot done doesn't mean you end up with a clean apartment. hmmmm?

Hats, Tequila, and Gnomes

I finished the first two baby hats. These are for two lovely girls who have already been born so I put a rush on these. Since there is no way these hats would fit my kid Red Bear was happy to be my model. Thank you Red Bear.

The Pattern is a free one from Here. Since the suggested yarn is no longer I used Lion Cotton, which is a little thicker but it still turned out nicely. Instead of putting a tassel on top, that would have frayed like mad with this yarn, I made tails by casting on then casting off then casting on again. I like the curlies more than a tassel.

So that is two now just five more to go. The second one only took two days, it will go quick.

Mr. Gnome has a second job working security at a local night club. Sammy Hagar was there last night, Naturally he had to bring home something..... The bottles are empty, he doesn't like tequila but he thought they "looked cool" and "need a candle in them". Don't we outgrow the hording of alcohol bottles and putting candles in them while we are in college? Now I have to figure out what to do with them until we move when they will mysteriously disappear. He wants to put the bumper sticker on the car. sigh

And last but certainly not least here are some very cool gnomes on some very cool yarn made by a very very cool spinner yarnpunk.

Start Them Early!

Little Gnome has discovered beading. She will sit and do this for a good ten minutes. Keep in mind she is two ten minutes is FOREVER. Of course when she decides she is finished she watches them bounce all over the floor. Boy can those things scatter!

In regards to the last post I wanted to share about our camping trip but was too tired to do any real writing. We went for two nights and had a grand time. The park was beautiful. We did have a few raccoon invasions at night. The first time they came right up to us while we were sitting at the fire. Now it was dark and I just saw it out of the corner of my eye at first so I may have freaked out a tiny bit. Little Bug thought our outside house and the fire were all fun.

Not a lot of knitting has been accomplished what with Mr. Gnome being home and the camping trip. I have however agreed to knit baby hats for the expectant/new again moms in our AP group's shower in a box. There are seven, two have been born already. The rest aren't due until August and September. I searched high and low for a Cute hat that isn't knit up on size 3s. I do need to make seven and I don't have a lot of time here! I'm going to make this one. Cute yes! I thought so. Now I wanted to make it out of cotton or a cotton blend. Not thinking wool would be good for a baby and being anti-acrylic if I can help it. And knowing these mom's probably would be even more anti-acrylic than I am. Natural Parenting being so closely related with AP and all. SO... I began my search. My first mistake was going to Hobby Lobby. OK that was my only mistake. Novelty yarn has it's place..... I guess...... I finally found something that will work at Hancock's. I really should be starting a gauge swatch right now.

camping in photos

Hey I thought this was a knitting blog!!!

Time off and yarn

This past week and next week are vacation weeks for Mr. Gnome. Very scary. We aren't going anywhere just doing fun stuff around town. We went to the St. Louis Ren. Fair. It rained. It rained a lot. We got wet. Little Bug loved it! They couldn't do the jousting or other horse stuff because of all the mud. So they did an improptu mud wrestle. Little Bug got splattered as they ran buy. She loved it. We were the only people to play "Who wants to be a Pirateer?" we won! It did take some knowledge all about pirates. So maybe it is sad that we won since we had to know stuff about pirates. But we both got strawberry shortcakes. mmmmmmm..

We went to the pool yesterday. No sun burns to be reported! Little Bug and Mr. Gnome are both BIG water babies! We all had a ton of fun. When I was a kid the wading pool was lame! The one we went to has fountains and a mini slide shaped like a whale. Great times! Though I did get water in my ear and it hurts! But that is a normal part of water fun for me. blech.

Next week we are going camping for three days. We haven't been camping in many years! It isn't Supposed to rain, but well, you know how that can go......

As far as the knitting is going I finished the first stleeve of Mr. Gnome's sweater. One more to do... he does only have two arms... Then just putting it together.
I was sitting there knitting his sweater thinking how great this yarn was working out (Araucania, Nature Wool) it wasn't the Recommended yarn. It made a nice fabric on the recommended needles on the right gauge. I had also gotten some in a different color for a sweater for myself. So, naturally, I start thinkg about how fun that will be until I think wait that sweater is supposed to be knit on size 9 needles this one is on size 6. It isn't a tight fabric on 6 but Mr. Gnome always wears his sweaters over a shirt. I never do, hate layering! But if I knit up this yarn on the recommended nines you'll be able to see all sorts of things about me that no one wants to see. Well Little Bug still likes the nursings and of course Mr. Gnome appreciates. But the rest of the world doesn't need to be seeing that. So what to do what to do. I'm now looking for the "perfect" pattern for the yarn. It is a varigated blue between light eggshell to royal. Doesn't stripe just kind of is all over the place. Which I like but it does limit you a little. As in I don' t think it would be good for a cabled something...... It is all wool so certainly nothing short sleeve.... The search continues and we all know I have other things to knit no real worries there.
I don't know what I will knit next. I have the yarn for a sweater for me and one for Little Bug. Also yarn for these weird Pillow People. And a couple hats. hmmmmmmmm......... It will come to me.....