Life Lately- and a Knit in Progress
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Let’s start with the knitting, shall we? I’m working on the Firefly July sweater, and I’m loving it- the overall texture of the mesh stitch is very ‘me’, and I love that the stitch repeat (multiple of 4 stitches and four rounds, and every second round is a ‘resting’ round) is very easy to memorize, and I’m excited to block it out and really open up the stitch detail. It’s knitted bottom-up, and I asked the designer (Andrea Sanchez) about it, because it’s always interesting to hear more about why a designer chooses a certain construction, but she chalked it up to her personal preference for knitting bottom up sweaters – she likes how by the time you join the arms to the body, you’re almost done! I am halfway through the yoke now (although the photos below were snapped just before the joining) and she’s right, it’s the home stretch! The sweater and the sleeves are both knit in the round, so the finishing will be very minimal. I’m excited to finish it soon!
I’m especially excited to be using up yarn that has been in my stash for I think about five years- this is Knitpicks Palette in Iris Heather, and I’m totally crazy for the muted heathering that is happening in this yarn. And I have the exact yardage I need! I’ve just started my last skein and I’m halfway through the yoke, so I’m confident this will use up the stash like I had hoped. It’s a bit of a pet peeve of mine when I have half a skein leftover from something, and then continues to sit in my stash for years.
And as for life lately, Guy took a trip south to Detroit to visit some friends and rollerblade all the time (Guy feels about rollerblading the way I feel about knitting, so a mutual support of each other’s madcap obsessions is a cornerstone of our marriage), which meant I was solo parenting this weekend. Here are some scenes from our life lately!
Forgive me for this first-time mom newbie moment, but I had no idea that if your three-year-old takes a dance class that they have a recital. I mean, talk about a crap shoot- maybe she will do the routine and maybe she won’t, but I guess it’s just the combined forces of cuteness of a bunch of three-year-olds in tutus stunned by the bright lights of a stage. You never know what will happen! This is a photo from when we went for the group photos, we still have the dress rehearsal ahead of us and then the actual recital.
Lila has dance class and soccer on the weekends. Fortunately, we live within a 30 min walk of all those activities, so even though Guy had the car this weekend (and we are city people, so we only have the one car), we got around just fine.
Lil and I had a good weekend, and Guy got to spend some time doing what he loves- everybody wins!
Last night we moved Lila from her crib to her ‘big girl bed’, and she was thrilled. It was a lot of work reconfiguring her entire room and we’re not entirely finished, but I’ll get some photos soon.
This photo was from the last days of playing as a family beside her crib:
She likes to play a game where we all pretend to go to sleep for 2 seconds and then she wakes us up. And why yes, we are using a giant stuffed sheep as a pillow.
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