Happy 18 month birthday!

18 months ago, I became Mom. I'm so thankful.

Noro

I'm probably the last fiber-crafter on earth to try Noro yarn, but the day came on Friday when I reached into my (small) stash of revered yarn and pulled out the Noro Kureyon, printed the instructions for the Rook hat and scarf, (Ravelry links) and unearthed my hallowed but seldom used carved rosewood K hook. This was going to be good.

And it was. The colorway I bought (deep blue/olive 233) doesn't have as much variegation (word?) as some, but I do like all the colors (no muddy brown blobs). So color after color was pleasing. Definitely some detritus - sticks and such on my lap after completing the crown of the hat. One knot. Thick and thin spots. Good fun after the 100s of rows of solid-color sc I'm doing for DeuceDad's SU afghan.

But I don't love the pattern - there's this spike stitch that I can't quite master that you're supposed to do when the color has completely changed to really show off the colors. Maybe it's my dye-lot, but the colors are changing gradually and I don't see the drastic change.

My gauge was also WAY off - soooo tight which is odd for me, I typically go down 2 hook sizes from what's suggested in the pattern. I mean, a K hook for worsted weight yard is a huge hook in my world. So I modified the number of increases to get a big enough crown (I guess that means I've made a few hats that I could do that without getting up for reference material). I also had to rip back a few times because I misjudged a color run and had to move my spike stitch. Oh, and this stuff HATES frogging. I actually broke the yard twice.

So I'm going to finish the hat because I don't want to risk destroying a whole skein by frogging the thing. I'm going to rethink the scarf though... we'll see.

V is for Villain

This was picked up Tuesday. Not clean (the door didn't get that dusty in 3 days), but picked up. Not remodeled (nice carpet and panelling, huh?), but picked up. And now? Junk. On the floor. Again.

Toddlers. Humph.

U is for Underwear

When you are one, your undershirt is a perfectly acceptable outfit. You can even dress it up with a hat if desired.

Tackle It Tuesday: Crap... I mean craft... Room

First I just want to say that after the awfully unproductive day I had yesterday, I've already done more housework in the 2 hours I've been awake. Phew.

Anyhow, our new house has an office on the lower level, that will someday be a real live craft room. In the meantime it has turned into a garbage dump. Since I don't have a camera today, I'm going to give you the 360. Starting at the door -

• stool with books, pencil case, tissue paper on it, and work desk detritus under.
• wire shelves with sorting trays. Sorting trays are empty
• bolt of fabric for as-yet not started curtains
• book shelf with one box worth of books unpacked
• computer with modem lying next to it
• desk with monitor, keyboard, old phone charger, baby wipe wrapper on it
• filing cabinet, piled on top are empty CD cases, baby art and potentially bills
• pile of junk
• box of junk
• empty Cricut cutter box
• box of junk
• box of junk
• schnitzels of paper from die cutter
• card table with ABC book project, empty bag of sun chips, papers to be filed, board book
• shredder with stack of stuff to be shredded on the floor next to it
• the center part of a ring stacker
• a Mary Kay Satin Hands set

And I wonder why I have a hard time being creative. I'll update when it's tackle-complete

Waste of Space

Deuce is recovering from a virus and took a 5 hour nap today. And I did nothing. I took a nap, and ate left over taco dip. I'm a waste of space. And my stomach doesn't feel great now because of the snacking. Ugh.

Yay It's Monday! (I didn't just say that did I?)

It's a new week and time to come up with a game plan. In no particular order, this week I plan to:

• Keep on that house work
• Cook Roasted Cauliflower Soup
• Take pics and update Ravelry with the scads of crocheting I've finished recently
• Apply to more jobs
• Take Deuce to at least 2 activities
• Work out!
• Finish the ABC book
• Process, post and print November pictures
• Do one home improvement/organization project TBD

Okay, now I'm expecting you to hold me to that!