Felted tote …… Lamb’s Pride Bulky, embellished with way too many beads. (The amount of beads work, it was the afternoon spent sewing them all on….!) 

This was a toy I made for a baby shower at work: I dubbed him “Spike”! 

Well, I’ve been way behind on the ol’ Ample Knitters list. And I feel like such a user-beyotch, because I’ve posted two desperate pleas for help in the past month, without staying caught up on everything. However, it’s gotten so crazy with the whole “what’s OT, don’t post OT, Label your OT” blah-de-de-blah and with a list member I like leaving over it, I’m glad I was behind when it was happening! I think I’d have made the cranky complainers even MORE if they got a good dose of my rancor. Well, no sense in spending any more on that.

I did put my Diva cardigan away for now. I will need to finish the sleeves, do all the trim & then – deep breath – knit some MORE swatch, do a practice swatch for dyeing, and then dye the whole thing. I still have not heard anything from YarnXpress, which honks me off, isn’t it funny, how the more time that goes by, the more I just want a FREAKIN’ apology for sending me two bags of different dye lots! WAH WAH WAH! I’m having a bitchy pity party! Bring some Doritos!

So right now, I’m knitting THE cutest baby sweater for my friend Julie, who is finally having the baby they tried so hard to “get”. I told her at lunch yesterday that I am unnaturally excited about her pregnancy. I just feel like I understand how much she wanted this, and how disappointed they’ve been until the last go-round when the results were positive, it just feels like such a perfect blessing. People who want to have children as much as they do should have them! And a little girl – oh, the outfits I get to make her! :) So I’ll post what sort of yarn, I got it at the Studio during their sale, it’s hot hot pink wrapped with a bunch of other colors. I also am enamored with the sweater Kristin knit for Janice’s baby – it’s SO flippin’ cute. Baby sweaters are the best because, UNLIKE a PLUS-SIZED CARDIGAN KNIT IN THE ROUND, they don’t take UMPTEEN HOURS and then if you discover the dye lots are DIFFERENT, it’s not the end of the freakin’ UNIVERSE!

WEll, rant off. I’m off to play dominoes online against my hubby. He’ll probably kick my patoot, because I’m out of practice at adding quickly in my head. :)

Well, I don’t know what the dealy-o is. It’s way late, I’m usually comatose-asleep by this point. I think part of it is a fear of re-entering the dream I left this morning – I was shot in my leg by a mugger, and it was just frame after frame of franticness. I don’t remember much else, just immense pain, and panic. James seems to be staying asleep though. I hope he gets back on a schedule soon or he’s going to have a lot of trouble once school starts.

On other notes, I am pissed OFF at an online yarn retailer right now, because I ordered two bags of Diva ribbon yarn in the same color, and why would they send me two different dye lots? Oh, can’t answer that question? Me neither. And a nice, painful way for me to learn a lesson about double-checking dye lots, since my ribbon cardigan in the round is done except for sleeves – complete with a faint color change mid-shoulder. So now I’m hoping I can unify the look by dyeing it – RIT should work, it’s a wool/polyamide blend, so I guess I’m just gonna finish the sleeves & hope for the best. It pisses me off though, all that work, and makes me wanna chuck it. Except it also makes me want like $80 discount on my next purchase from them, since that’s about what I spent on this yarn. I am looking forward to hearing back from them to see if I ever buy from them again.

On a sunnier, happier note, I have oodles of mohair from elann.com, love them, and pairing it with some fuchsia Brown Sheep, I have the uber-accessory of the season in my head, a poncho. I guess everyone else is gonna have a poncho, so I better figure out if I’m doing the capelet sort or the rectangle sort. Everything I’ve read about Big Girl Design, a shaped one is better, but I like the pointy-ness from the squares. So, I must continue digging up designs.

I hate how weekends go so fast, ya know? I need to figure out what other knitting classes I want to teach at the Yarn Store & More, and I need to catch up with Rob when he’s back in town on Monday. We have so much cleaning to do tomorrow, plus I’m going to make pico de gallo with roasted garlic – YUM. I hope Six Feet Under is a good episode, too. The DVR has been a fabulous decision, if I dare pat myself on the back excessively. I can keep up with my soaps without them piling up for 5 hours on the weekend, what with the stop & save feature that lets me pick back up watching it where I left off! woo hoo! Gotta love the gadgets.

Well, I should try to go back & get some sleep. My mind was just whirring too much, and with Polly gnawing away on her nylabone, I couldn’t let go to sink into sleep. Oh hell, I also need to do trivia for the company picnic, and I need to figure out if I’m doing something for the talent show. Damn damn damn. More to do tomorrow! I can’t wait to talk to Liz about Terry’s resignation – I miss my lizzie-lou-hou!

One of the good things about going out of town or being on vacation around your birthday is that your birthday then seems to go on, and on, and on, what with make-up lunches, presents, and good-wishes from people! Today we had lunch at Thai Place, and there were 14 of us. It was really fun, except I’m disappointed that my friend Dana didn’t like his food & said he wasn’t ever going to try it again. I just don’t understand being picky about food, even though James thinks I’m snobbish sometimes about what I’m willing to eat or what can or can’t be on it. This has been a big food day, though, what with Lamar’s for breakfast & then Liz’s goodbye party at Uno’s after work…… I feel bloated!!!!!