I can't believe I made it. I feel a backlash coming on .........
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Except for the weather, which was delicious ... the sun was shining, birds were singing, the children were happy to go outside and play ... this past weekend could have been better. For one, B had to work all day Saturday. For another, the virus that started on Wednesday as a sore throat and became full-blown laryngitis on Thursday decided that it wasn't quite done with me and added congestion and a cough to its ensemble on Friday. A cough which is only really a problem from 3:00-5:30 a.m. So, that's been fun.
My reaction to the above was to put the older kids in charge of their brother and knit the weekend away. I finished the first Sockapaloooza sock:
Thank you for the the reassuring responses to my last post, by the way. Even those of you who said you wouldn't wear the sock yourself said you knew people who would ... so I think we're good to go with this yarn (STR "Queen Rock") and pattern ("Madder Rib" from Knitting Vintage Socks).The sock was complete by early Saturday afternoon, which left me with many hours to knit. I could have finished the Bearfoot sock or cast on for the second Madder Rib, but was feeling a bit socked out. Searching for inspiration, I poked around the stash for a bit, then remembered that my friend's boy/girl twins are celebrating their second birthday in a couple of weeks, and I had planned to make them sweaters. I've had my eye on the ChildHood sweater for some time, and I happen to have a whole bunch of Mission Falls 1824 cotton in the stash (I went over all Y2K when they went out of business last year and bought every skein I could get my hands on. Now they're back, so I feel like I can knit what I have without fear.).
Once I got the bag o'cotton out into the open, though, I realized that I didn't have quite what I needed. In my frenzy I bought a lot of blues, greys, blacks and greens, but only a few balls of pink. I decided to make the little girl's sweater from two shades of green, assuming that if necessary I could frill it up with the buttons. Knitting lots and lots of stockinette was obviously just what the doctor ordered, because the sweater fairly flew off the needles:
I have hit one snag, though. Those of you with kids who watched Blue's Clues back at the beginning, back Before Joe*, come on .... whose shirt does this remind you of?
Right! Steve!
Once I made that association, I was completely unable to see this as anything other than a boy's sweater. Then I started imagining how adorable these kids would look in identical-except-for-the-color sweaters. You can see where this is going, can't you? This morning I asked my good friends at WEBS to send me some 1824 cotton in Pink and Pinker (the Stashalong is over, have you heard?), and as soon as it comes, I'll make the girl's sweater. I'm still trying to decide if I'm going to use buttons or zippers ... either way, I think they're going to be adorable.
* I just have to state for the record that -- in my humble opinion -- while Joe is o.k., he's no Steve. Steve was the best, and the show hasn't been the same since he left. And I know that I'm probably too invested in this, but I can't help it. I feel the same way about Elmo. He's cute and I know kids like him, but he'll never replace Grover in my heart.
If you're a Grover fan, too, you should check this out: Grover is Bitter.
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