back to your regularly scheduled blog-- already in progress.

Jess is back to normal now and back in school. (thanks you for all the well wishes.) Stepdad comes home on Saturday, whether he's ready to or not(he's so not). And I now have knitting time.

so, FO's first

These mini-jaywalkers are for my niece. I made her a pair of socks in January that do not fit, so she gets a new pair. Jaywalkers, loads of fun.

I've gathered up my sockpal's package and I'm getting ready for the big mail-out day.
(Fellow sockapalooozers, are you driving yourself mad trying to figure out who has you as well?)
You might recognize some ballband warshclothes in there. Warning: those things are addicting.

Ok, onto the projects. My Lucky K8's

Heh? you say? I cannot get friggin' gauge! I have even tried with the recommended needle size. Do not fret. I will win over the laceweight yet.

My silk--er bamboo corset.

A pair of toe up socks, because heaven forbid I don't have at least one sock in progress.

Right now I am SERIOUSLY coveting this top. She has the pattern up on Craftster.

I crocheted some poo for Piddleloop, but it's not quite as cutesy as that which she was coveting. (No picture yet.)

I have to go work on my Togs for Toys entry for this month.

In case you were wondering...

Here's what's been going on.

1. scrambling to prepare for Stepdad coming home this weekend
2. spring cleaning
3. warshcloth knitting
4. hanging out with Jennifer and Co. at the anything goes sale
5. managing sockapaloooza updates and trying to seek out those I have not heard from.
6. taking care of a puking little girl.

Jess sees the doc today and hopefully we can fix her up. She's mad she cannot go to school, she's mad she cannot keep anything down, and just mad because she's so hungry.

Hopefully things calm down and the blogging can resume.

In the meme time...

It's been a crazy week, and I got nothing for today,(How do I follow cute Jess pictures?) and I saw this over at Piddleloop so...

Five minutes to yourself: how would you spend them, ideally?
doing absolutely nothing that could be considered "productive"


Five bucks to spend right now; how would you spend it?
CHOCOLATE!!!!


Five items in your house you could part with, right now, that you hadn’t thought of already?

Gosh we are (by we I mean I)going through things right now to get rid of old stuff.

1. my fabric scraps (Hey, "Two Happy Hounds", do you take donations?)
2. some clothes that just don't fit right.
3. our old tv stand
4. the bedloft in the shed
5. the old compudyne in the shed.

Five items you absolutely, positively could never part with in your house?

This one's hard. Only five?

1. some of Jess' artwork.
2. my wedding ring (which has not fit past my knuckle in several months)
3. the poems and letters Nate has written for me.
4. my Mother's suede jacket
5. the boxes and boxes of photographs.

Five words you love?
1. fetterchicken alfredo (jess's term for fetticini alfredo)
2. purdy
3. skills
4. snarkies
5. heh

five things i’d remove from this meme...hmmmm...I don't know

Weekend update

Our trip to Ohio was very nice. For those of you anxiously awaiting a picture of Jess in her Easter attire.

Cute, ain't she? Yup, she knows it.

Now since laceweight and many little girls do not mix well, I needed to take a very portable project I could put down and pick up without screwing it up. Enter the Lorna's laces and the two socks I have finished.

The (mini) jaywalker, and the "let's see if I can get a whole 'nother sock out of the remainder of this ball" sock.

Also see what I snagged on this trip?

Ida's sewing...bucket. It's awesome. She still had a table cloth and napkins she had started to embroider in 1973. (I know because she had a note in with it that said just that. That Ida, she's so cute.)

Also, these were in there.

They are to be pillowcases. Hand embroidered. They have yet to se sewed up, but I'm not sure how I want to hem the scallop edge.