Yesterday, The Sainted Husband (TM) and I put in an offer to purchase our first home together. (We’ve rented for the 9 years we’ve been together)
Today, the sellers accepted our offer.
Holy CRAP, we’re buying a house!!!!
Our House!
Und now iz ze time on schprockets ven ve FREAK OUT! [...]
True to form, I did not finish my husband’s sweater in time for Valentine’s Day, but I DID manage to get a photo of the very love-appropriate cables on this thing.
I’m knitting Beck, from Jane Ellison’s Queensland Collection Book 9, using some Skye Tweed. (Ravelry links; [...]
Who can keep track when in the grip of illnesses like these?
Handspun Nereid mitts were begun.
Then I made of the mistake of going to the local-to-my-office yarn shop, Stitch D.C., to pick up some lace Addi needles. (A need sparked, as I said in the last post, because the [...]
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This weekend, I:
Saw Kung Fu Panda with my husband, four year old, and eighteen year old. Score on all counts — wonderful movie, definitely one we will want to own as soon as it’s available. Enhanced the stash by one skein of Penthouse Silk [...]
And also the beginning of block trois.
I have got to get better about documenting what I’m doing — I think I may have knit the first block on size 9 needles instead of 8s, which is what these are — I had to dip into a new ball to complete the last [...]
Choose the musical version wisely, lest your earworm become an 80′s has-been rather than a 70′s rock deity. (ETA: Evidently Wendy and I shared the same sentiments towards weather. )
Outside, the trees, bushes, roads and walkways are encased in a fairly icky ice storm. I discovered that it was perhaps a bit more [...]