Merry Christmas :)

Welcome to little G. - my friend Kathryn had a gorgeous son on Christmas eve! How wonderful. She and the Mr will be lovely parents and I hope we get to see him soon. Fingers crossed that they are moving back to Seattle still.

We spent Christmas at home this year - the first time ever for me. (ok, not counting the year I had surgery and had to stay here). I do miss my family, but it was also an amazingly beautiful peaceful Christmas eve and day. I baked bread and made potroast today, we had the traditional mexican food for Christmas eve dinner. ha. no really.

The gift pile is lovely, we have lots of fun things, Little Man had fun with his new goodies. Probably the first and last year that the gifts were not overdone for him. That's ok. :) Shopping for him is the fun part!

Saving the best for last (at least in my own world) - LIttle Man said Mama tonight. B and I looked at each other in amazement - I don't know, but it was crystal clear to both of us. He was crawling towards me when he said it, so it wasn't like he was looking at a butterfly and said MAMA.

So, a lovely day, and I should be sleeping.

Did I mention it SnOWed? I don't remember it ever snowing on Christmas day here. FABULOUS.

Posted by talkingcrow at 12:31 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Well, ok, in the past it's mostly turned out ok, but not this time.

I've knit one of two socks for the child for christmas. I though it would be a nice tradition to knit him socks to put in his stocking every year. There will be no second sock.

However, I'm heading down the road to having lots of single socks to make a sock advent calendar with one day.

Thankfully I did try the first one on him before I got TOO far on the 2nd. It so does not fit. I'd frog it except it's done, and the ends are woven in. And there's the sock advent calendar to work on, and I don't really like that Koigu anyways. Plus, I have enough yarn to just keep going and make 3 instead of 2. If I find the fortitude.

Posted by talkingcrow at 01:55 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

*that's a little joke.

the other day, when heading to the toy store for The Duke of Pork's first birthday gift, we saw a loom on the side of the road. a pretty big one, relatively speaking. i agonized over picking it up, as i didn't really want to start weaving *myself*, but i know enough fiber freaks that i could have at least got a nice pint out of a trade. and some eternal happiness if handed off to the right person. But I hesitated. And it was gone by the time we came out of the toy store. So, my fiber friends, I'm sorry. But someone out there is probably happy for finding that thing.

why can't i start weaving right now? i think i have an unhealthy obsession with ravelry, which eats up any spare minutes, to the exclusion of actually knitting or creativity. i always have SO many projects rolling around in my head, and ravelry is like, like, um, maybe like a room full of knobs and switches for someone with severe OCD. there is always something else to look at. OH WAIT there's more! i'll get over it soon, but so much to look at, so much to feed the knitting polyamory.

on that front, i'm severely bored with my projects (also probably why ravelry looks so good) because i feel like i'm not allowed to work on what i really WANT to work on, which is finishing the damned pomotomi. instead there are a couple pairs of plain socks that need to be done, and it's slowwwwwww going. i'm sort of itching to do kate gilbert's bird in hand mittens. but really, the siren right now is the sunrise circle jacket. probably made worse by yarnharlot's version looking so nice. and i forgot that is by kate gilbert too. haha. one other item high on my list is ALSO by her - the marina piccolo socks. but they are very similar to pomotomus, so i might have to do something else in between with the sock yarn.

i should seriously be sleeping right now. himself was up at 6:30 and is now back to sleep for morning nap. i could use that too. which means y'all are spared additional pointless stories for the moment.

i will say, little man is just growing and growing. he's got a whole bunch of teeth all coming in at once, is totally not happy unless he can be let loose to wander the house, and i'm fully expecting him to be driving by thursday. i think we've passed the cusp of the crazy 9 month stuff a little early. the last few weeks have been super weird, but it seems to be dying down.

Posted by talkingcrow at 08:02 AM | Permalink

Yesterday I was #524, and today I got an invite. Woohoo.

It will be slow going for me to get fully immersed (just due to time constraints). But that doesn't matter, it's MORE KNITTING craziness!

http://www.ravelry.com/people/talkingcrow

Wayyyy more fun than LinkedIn. :)

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