Monday, June 19

That is the baby afghan I'm working on, pattern is here but that link launches the pdf file. You can find it on the list here - it's the Lots of Love Grandma's Afghan. I'm using Patons Astra in the Baby Variegated colourway. I like it. I adjusted the pattern for the smaller gauge yarn.

So Princess Sabrina has been upset because the pack has splintered. The big fella has been out of town and returns tomorrow after six days away. She's not happy. I have been taking her for lots of walks, with varying levels of mosquito attacks - if they're not horribly bad, it's way too hot to stay out long. So she's unhappy about that as well.

No, she's not spoiled rotten - why do you ask?!

After I got home from work and did some stuff, I took Sabby out for a walk - earlier than we normally go. I thought she would enjoy a dip in the lake and I wore my flip-flops so I could wade in with her. The lake was rough, but she enjoyed the coolness - even though a wave dunked her and she came up sputtering. All was well ... until we exited the lake and a swarm of horseflies were on us like, well, flies to shit. We practically ran home, then they were swarming us at the door - poor Sabby was freaking out and snapping at them and trying to outrun them, me dangling on the end of the leash trying to keep up. We got home probably hotter than before we'd been in the lake. I rubbed her down and positioned the fan so the someone less stifling air on the shady side of the house is blowing in. A few liver treats and I think she's feeling better now. Poor pooper!

posted by Terri at 6/19/2006 07:05:00 PM (0) comments

Saturday, June 17

 

look - an actual post!!

It's been pouring down rain most of the week. We are all going to float away, I'm sure. The mosquitoes are absolutely horrendous - you can't be outside and stand still for a second or they're on you. Poor Sabrina is most frustrated by them. We go out for walks and can't go too long because they are so vicious and bite, bite, bite. With her short fur they really torment her. When she stops to sniff a tree or flower a black cloud of mosquitoes envelopes her. I try to brush them away, but we have to slow our pace to do that and that just encourages more to hop on her. Poor pooper! I'm seriously thinking about some kind of bug jacket for her.

I finished knitting the pullover baby sweater. This is the largest size and I converted the pattern to be a pullover. It's already packaged up in the Dulaan parcel (being mailed today) and I forgot to measure it to see how much bigger it turned out than the pattern as my gauge was a little bigger than what was called for. Probably fit a two-year old, I'd guess.

Sabrina, the reluctant knitwear model

Now that my Dulaan project knitting is done, I'll get back to the baby afghan. I finally got a nice bamboo circular that doesn't have any snaggy joins or too-pointy tips, so I hope to make good progress on that in the next weeks.

posted by Terri at 6/17/2006 01:03:00 PM (0) comments

Saturday, June 10

 

rainy weekend

A good stay to stay home and relax. The big fella and Sabrina are laying on the bed watching a dvd (with their eyes closed) and I'm doing laundry and puttering around online.

Sabby is enthralled to be modeling the baby sweater in progress.

I'm using Elann's Peruvian Wool (doesn't it come in a great array of colours?!) and the hooded baby cardigan pattern except I've turned it into a pullover. I'm making it in the largest (18 month) size. My gauge is a little bigger than the pattern calls for, so the finished product should be a little bigger than 18 months.

I certainly do prefer knitting with wool than acrylic. I can definitely see making this again (with the Peruvian wool) in larger sizes - take any top-down raglan pattern and adapt it for a hood.

posted by Terri at 6/10/2006 02:31:00 PM (0) comments

Tuesday, June 6

 

I finished these on the weekend

These are kid sized socks for the Dulaan project. I used Regia 6-ply sock yarn in colour #5260. Great looking socks!

I have since started another hooded baby cardigan with a few alterations. I'm using Elann's Peruvian Wool (fab colour selection!) and making it a pull over, not a cardigan. This wool is sooo nice. I will definitely be using more of this. I'll get a photo of the in-progress sweater in the next day or two.

posted by Terri at 6/06/2006 08:50:00 PM (0) comments

Saturday, June 3

 

well, THAT was a week!

It's a good thing I have the big fella and Sabrina to come home to. When I walk up the sidewalk and see that little greyhound face peering out the window ... :-) she knows when it's 4 p.m. and she's catching on to when it's noon.

You can see the big fella's resolve to only let Sabby on the bed when he was away has faltered. She jumps up in between us and makes herself comfortable. His excuse now not to get another greyhound is that we'd need to buy a bigger bed. Heh.

I have been working on the Regia 6-ply socks for the Dulaan project. If I managed to do more than a couple rounds a day, they'd be done already. I have the heels turned and both gussets decreased by now.

After our mid-day walk (and subsequent laying in the lake) I gave Sabrina a glamour treatment - brushed her coat, clipped her nails, chamois'd her down. She looked mah-velous, dahlink!

posted by Terri at 6/03/2006 07:30:00 PM (0) comments