It really does look woven.
(Koigu Linen Stitch Scarf – My Ravelry Link).
And I like the way the colors are coming out.
It really does look woven.
And I like the fact that you’re doing the “tails” at the same time as knitting it. So as soon as I cast off, that’ it, it’ll be done. Nothing to add on later for the fringe. I’m thinking of making it a little bit wider than the 5” the pattern calls for. (Maybe 6”? I don’t like too skinny of a scarf).
I've been trying to tackle organization chez Knit & Purl Mama. Let's take a look:
First, I came up with an organizational idea for my yarn room. I bought a few packs of these dot stickers. In order to make sure that every single skein in my yarn room is listed on Ravelry (in my personal stash AND on my trade/sell page), I'm checking each skein to make sure it's photographed & listed, and once it is, I'm putting a colored sticker on it, to mark it as done.
The boys got a new light fixture in their room.
While we were at Comic Con two weeks ago, I got to meet Lynn Johnson, who does the cartoon For Better or For Worse. It's one of the comics I actually read when I actually read the newspaper.
Edited out my kids/hubby's last name. (Cuz in Quebec the wife (like myself) doesn't take their husbands name legally when they marry. Some b.s. about too high of a divorce rate and they don't want to do the legal paperwork - how encouraging to get married, eh?)
Hubby got around to hanging it up this past weekend in the kitchen.
And speaking of the kitchen, we re-arranged a bit in there. We moved the water cooler over (it was in the corner where the green swiffer mop handle is) so that we could move over the table to give more room for all of us to be around it. We took the high chair out of the kitchen and now Quentin is at the table in a booster seat instead of in the high chair. This new way takes up way less space in the kitchen. He likes being at the table with us now. It's nice. Now, hubby is just waiting for Quentin to outgrow our Jumperoo, so that it's no longer taking up space in the kitchen. Though, I still put Quentin in it more than once daily, while I'm in the kitchen, he likes to jump the shit out of it.
While I was in that same department, I saw this and had to have it. Things were piling up on top of the toilet tank, and it's nice to have shelf space in the bathroom now. Now I don't have to worry about things on the top of the toilet tank possibly falling into the toilet. Cuz in our house, we all know that a certain someone (cough, cough, Mackenzie) is good at flushing things down the toilet. Just two nights ago we lost a toy Lightning McQueen down the toilet. (It was really tiny actually, so it shouldn't block anything, it was from a book game).
Things are starting to get very organized around here. (And de-cluttered too!) I like this progress. I'm ready to pat myself on the back. I hope to get everything done that is on my list before my maternity leave officially ends in November. (Though, I'll be staying at home (and working from home) with Quentin until he has daycare in the spring - as soon as he turns 18 months old as our daycare has no baby room). But, I do want to make sure my "to-do" list is done before my actual maternity leave ends (mid-November).
Lastly, today, I want to show you something I made that my parents framed & hung up in their house:
I think it was for their anniversary last year, that I made this for my parents. It has all our names in the family (pets included). My mom finally found a shadow box frame that fits this and she finally hung it in their house. I totally want to make one for our house now (just need to find the time to actually make it). Isn't it an awesome gift? I picked up some old board games at Value Village and had extra boards to make this! I still have 2 or 3 boards left, from my Value Village finds.
Recently (last week), I took it upon myself to figure out how to re-upholster my kitchen chairs. So I borrowed one staple gun (for one size staples) from my best friend, and Jamie had the other staple gun, which was for another size staple, which I ended up using both in the end. Our chairs came with the table, which came with our house when we bought it in late 2007. Over the years, the boys as toddlers have gotten them quite filthy. They're really hard to wash. So, I hunted down (at Fabricville) a material that would wipe right down. I chose a nice dark grey color, and did some youtube video watching on re-upholstering chairs. I ended up re-watching this video a few times before starting.
I unscrewed the seat from the chair frame, and put it on my pre-cut material.
I then began stapling away. (Right picture is one before and one after chair).
We now have 4 nicely covered chairs, that are like new again. I'm quite impressed with my re-upholstering skills. This is something that I had fun doing and would totally do again. I wish it were this easy to re-upholster a couch! We have some couches in our basement that need an uplifting. I even got a 2 thumbs up from Mackenzie! He noticed them right away when he got home from daycare the day I finished working on them.
I love the fact that once dinner (breakfast or lunch) is over, I can easily wipe down the chairs. One of the chairs was so bad, that it had smushed in Lucky Charms that Mack had sat on and squished into the chair seat. The stain from the colors wouldn't come out in the material the chairs were before. So glad that I have an easy cleaning time now.
I got some yummy yarn in the mail today – Tanis Fiber Arts Blue Label in Autumn Sun. I love fall colors, so this skein is totally up my alley. It’s the September installment of her fiber club. I believe I have one more installment left this year. It’s been fun getting yarn in the mail.
I cast on 450 stitches with the Koigu KPPPM that I showed you the other day.
450 stitches takes a LONG time to get through one row! It’s the Koigu Linen Stitch Scarf that I cast on by Churchmouse. So far, I’m loving it. (My ravelry project).
SPECS:
Aren't these colors vibrant!
I've wound them into cakes.
Oh, and they've been cast on.
Details to come as soon as there's enough progress to show.
Stay tuned!
(I also have another FO to show you later).
Sean’s been really into drawing and has gotten really good at it too. He’s even coloring in the lines these days, quite nicely. I’m quite impressed with his artistic skills lately. But guess what he’s currently obsessed with drawing. Can you guess who that is?
I'm having a pretty decent hair day, but that's the only thing that's going good for me today. I was up for hours last night. Quentin SCREAMED from 2:15 am until 6:30 am this morning. He got a few spurts of 15 minutes of sleep at a time during that time, but other than that, (sleeping on me while I rubbed his back), he screamed once I started to fall asleep and stopped rubbing his back. He didn't want to be in his crib. He didn't want to be in my bed either, really. He didn't want to sit on my bedroom floor, he didn't want his bottle. He kept shoving it away.
Saturday night while we were out for dinner one of my best friends, (I have 2 of them + Jamie, of course), sent me a text message letting me know there was a surprise outside on our front porch. When I got home, there was a huge gift bag, with a sweetly written card & 2 bottles of wine. Jamie had been on antibiotics since last Monday, so we are saving these bottles of wine for the weekend, he's now finally finished the antibiotics & we can enjoy this lovely gift. Best friends rock.
