September Brownie Points

Patons Kroy in Tutti Frutti Jacquard

2.75mm needles, my own pattern

(which I will get around to posting soon!)

started September 14

finished September 19

The stripes match perfectly! Even the blurry heels and the blurry tip toes! These are for the store, but I would like to make myself a pair of these sometime. We've got the other Kroy Jacquards, too.

These socks would have been completed last night had the Littlest Monkeyman not taken off at one point with one of my needles. I couldn't find it, and of course he said he didn't know where it was. I looked in his usual hiding spots, nothing. I thought I had another set the same size but didn't. I stopped at the store today and got another set. It's a good idea to have an extra set anyways. Anyhoo, when he got home from preschool he was playing with his workbench, and lo and behold, there was the missing needle!

Since I couldn't finish the socks last night I was compelled to start something else. I started the cabled sweater I've been commissioned to knit. It's moving along nicely. I only ever knit this pattern once in the child size 4. Now I am making an adult large. There are two cables in it, one just your 6-stitch braided cable, and the other a fancier-but-not-too-fancy cable. (I could get out my book and see what it's called, but I'm lazy. Eventually I'll post a picture.) It's very easy to remember. The fancier cable is a 28-row repeat, and the braided one is only a 4-row repeat. I'm using Patons Decor, 25% wool, 75% acrylic. (She wanted machine wash and dry.) It's quite nice to work with so far.

I forgot to mention last week -- the elementary school in the north part of our county burned down. Don't ask me why the picture uploaded like this. All that grey is black on my machine. The fire started at some point through the night and was called in to 911 by a lady delivering mail. The school was totally destroyed (don't know if they know what the cause was yet - I heard it was suspicious), but they saved the high school, which is right next door. I heard today that the high school should be open again the first of October (smoke and water damage), and they are trying to work out alternative locations for the elementary students. It's a half-hour drive from there to here, so it's too far to bus small kids to our schools.

And on another sad note, our fuzzy little caterpillar has gone to the Big Leaf in the Sky. I went to give him new leaves today, and he had passed. He had been doing so well, we're quite disappointed. (I let the other caterpillar we had go last week. He wasn't eating anything I was putting in his container, and he wasn't looking so good. I thought it was for the best.)

Only four more days til The Stones! My brother is so excited he's just like a little kid! We have a hotel room and will probably take a shuttle or ferry/shuttle combo to get there. (Had to get a hotel in Dartmouth -- Halifax was full.) So far the weather is supposed to be warm with a chance of showers. Yesterday felt like summer -- hot and sunny. Today was almost as warm but started to shower mid-afternoon. Get the rain out before Saturday, please!

Check out Mossy Cottage's info on Dulaan 2007.

Happy knitting!