I didn't promise you a rose garden...
...but when I stepped out my front door the other day, lookee what I saw!
And here are some delightful pics of my delightful Beckybean!
Okay, I admit it. The pictures of the beautiful roses and the adorable baby are meant to be distraction devices. I don't want you asking about the sweater I was supposed to be knitting for the Cherry Tree Hill contest. You see, I was knitting it. I knitted nothing
but it for the past couple of weeks. I even modified my original design, shortening the sleeves and changing the neckline. I think it's a better design now -- or at least a more saleable one. And under normal circumstances, I'd've been finished with plenty of time to spare. I've had lots of evenings free to knit, and had lots of time this past holiday weekend, too.
The X factor has been the overwhelming nausea that New Baby has been throwing my way to let me know he's in there. Unfortunately, nearly all of my knitting time is in the evening -- my mornings are full of Becky (which I love), and my days are full of work. And evenings are when I'm the most nauseous. Knitting exacerbates it. So I haven't been able to knit a lot of times when I should have been knitting. So the sweater didn't get done.
What happens now? Well, I put the sweater aside and did a gauge swatch for the Hill Country Socks this morning. I'll work on those this month as much as I can, and hope I get them finished by the 30th. Then I want to knit a nice sweater for me, and socks for my mom (her Christmas '06 present, much overdue -- I'll work on them at the same time as the sweater...mostly I hate having just one project to work on at a time), and I still have the kaftan for Becky, and eventually, I'll finish the sweater and publish the pattern. I haven't decided if I'll self publish or submit somewhere, but I do think it's a good design, and I do think people will like it.
The Unblogger
WTF? Seriously, people, WTF happened here? I mean, I love my blog. I love posting about the Beckster and my knitting and general crap. so why haven't I posted in almost a month? I mean, I've got pictures ready to go up and everything! I have no idea how this happened. It's certainly not for lack of stuff to blog about. For instance:
There was a party. People came, there was cake, Becky spit out frosting (this cannot be my child).
I got this book from my Secret Pal a couple of weeks ago, and while I did thank her privately, I've been remiss in thanking her here, so consider this both a thank you and an apology.
I had checked this out from my local library once upon a time after reading all across the blogiverse about the dishcloth. And while I did like the dishcloth, there weren't enough other patterns in it that I felt I would knit for me to buy it. And I didn't have (or make) the time before it was due back to actually read it. I do like the down-homeness of it...it reminds a little of my own mom and aunt and stepmom. I'm really glad my pal sent this to me.
I've got Dad's socks done except for the heels. I'd have the heels done except that I misread the instructions for the Cherry Tree Hill design contest, for which I have The Perfect Design(tm), and first prize is $1000, so that would be nice to win. As they say, you can win if you don't enter. Only, see, I somehow read that they needed the garment in hand by July 30. Uh, no. June 1. You can see how I would be confused, right? Very similar dates. Crap. Lucky I checked the dates
just to be sure. So I started the sweater Monday, ripped it out Wednesday, restarted it Thursday, ripped it out this morning (I twisted it yesterday when I joined. Sigh.). No idea if it'll be done in time to get there, but I definitely see overnight postage in my near future if it is.
Let's see...there was something else...what was it...seems like it was sort of important...oh! I know! I'm pregnant! Yes, Becky Jayne will have a little brother or sister in about six months. This may explain why I've been more interested in eating and sleeping than just about anything else lately (including blogging, apparently). I talked to a friend of mine today who just had her second one with about the same age difference we'll have. She wished me luck.
