Are you ready for the 'ber months??

 Hey everyone.  I hope you are well....we are just about a week away from the 'ber months.  SeptemBER, OctoBER, NovemBER, DecemBER!  I am so excited!!  It has been over 100 degrees here in Texas for so long I cannot even remember a day under 100 and no end to the heat in sight.

As for knitting, let me jump on it.  I finished my Morning Rain test.  I had plenty of yarn left, I should have made the shawl bigger, but you know what they say about hindsight.

I also got some yarn a couple of weeks ago that I forgot to show you!

I got some Cascade Yarns Kid Seta mohair.....10 skeins

Blue Sky Knits Organic Cotton in White....7 skeins

Cascade Yarns Noble Cotton in a Periwinkle kinda color.....7 skeins

I also got my nails done.  I was going to go with bright orange and then I saw this orange that I think matches some of my favorite PJs

I also cut my finger right after this....I was making my favorite bean salad and used one of those dicer things but forgot to unlock it before I tried to remove blade....I hope you are not squirmy with blood

I also am behind on my squares for Antonio.  I am only behind by about 8....so I hope to catch up tonight.  I need to get better disciplined and less distracted with all the other stuff I want to make!

The other stuff being the autumn pullover:

and socks

That is all I have for knitting/crocheting.....but, I did go to Paige's this past Wednesday and she made the most delicious salmon bowls

I bought Lupe some super cool knives so I convinced him to bbq for us and use the new knives (win for me).

That is all I have.  I hope you all have an amazing week!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!

When someone else reminds you what you were going to do a year ago!

 Hey everyone! I hope you had a great week!  Do you remember about a year ago when I was "Playing Catch up and Starting New Things"....and I bought some yarn to make a pullover with Jennifer and Darlene......Well fast forward and life happened and I never got it started and then I was scrolling social media and my friend Melissa posted that she has a new sweater in progress and it looked super familiar.  Melissa's social media post:

sure enough, it was the sweater I bought yarn for and mentioned in blog post I linked above and I told her.....she said that she saw Jennifers and fell in love with it so she started one one.  So I asked Jennifer to send me a pic of hers and it looks so amazing!!!  Here is Jennifer's:

....so I pulled it out and cast on yesterday (a whole year later than I wanted to.....LOL!)!!!

I want to finish Antonio's blanket by his birthday and I do not have much time....so I took this to work on during SNB meeting at Starbucks this past Wednesday and I got a bunch of squares put together...then I sat down and did a bunch of math:

38”x75”

13 sq x 25 (or 26) sq = 325 (or 338) squares

I have 77 squares done as of yesterday

To finish by Antonio’s birthday I need to do 248 more squares in 8 weeks.  That’s 31 a week and approx 4.5 per day. 

So I am going to work on a ton of squares before I go ot the lakehouse in late September and I plan on putting as many together as I can during the lakehouse weekend.....wish me luck!

I also worked on my other Virus Shawl......The one I just finished I gave to Darlene and I was over at her house this past weekend.  When I do a 3 ply, the shawl ends up a lot larger and both her and I like the fabric of it....when it is a 4 ply skein the shawl is a bit smaller and the fabric of it is denser....so this one is a 4 ply so after about 6 repeats, I went up a hook size and I am going to do a couple of repeats and see if I can tell a difference I the fabric....I might end up going up one more hook size....we will see.   I only have more 4 ply's skeins left so I ordered some more 3 plys to have in my stash to make more.

Lupe and I went out to a new to us restaurant.....First Watch and this place is almost exacly like Snooze.....our brekfast was delicious!

Lupe bought me flowers that are so gorgeous I cannot stop taking pics of them....in the window sill for light and on the mantel...they are called Orange Gladiolus....so gorgeous

Lastly, yesterday would have been my parent's 58th wedding anniversary......and out of the blue I got a text from my Uncle John.....he sent me this pic (this is him in the pic with my mother) and said "I love this photo.  It was Kimberly's baby shower in April 7 years ago.  Weston was 7 on July 17th.  The baby shower was a fun gathering.  Your mom always looked happy." and I am so happy he sent me this picture....it is a fabulous picure so I thought I would share.  Have a great week!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!

Happy Birthday to my amazing fiance!

Hi everyone!  I hope you had an amazing week.  I am a day late posting because yesterday was Lupe's 47th Birthday!  I love this man so much and I am so lucky I have him in my life.....we had a fabulous day together for his Birthday!  On the Sunday before his birthday we went to Son's River Ranch and went tubing and kayaking.  I have a little bit of a picture dump here!

Here is our little "covered area with picnic table and hamock" and honestly it was perfect for just the 2 of us.

they also have much larger cabanas:

Some of these pics were taken while phone was in the water proof container and I could not see the screen well so some are blurry, but we had a fabulous time!

I also got a pretty bad sunburn even though I really did stay on top of my sunscreen....clearly, not good enough

As for other parts of my week.....I had dinner at Paige's last Friday and played with this cutie pie!

Tone started High School yesterday!

Paige finally asked me for some of my sourdough starter (named Bruno):

I fed him before the day tubing and kayaking

and here he is after!  So, Paige is having fun with all the sourdough stuff!

If you read the mid July post about being double skunked.....we are now triple skunked.....My dogs (of course) think they have been super helpful in saving me and Lupe from the baby skunks that we think are coming from behind the fence.....Lupe, however, does not agree.  He has scolded the dogs and I cannot blame him....they have now torn up several fence pickets to save us from another baby skunk (that we found dead in the yard).  He has ordered some collars for the dog along with special fencing to hopefully keep the dogs away from the fence.  Fingers crossed!

I recently bought a bag from Bags by Awesome Granny and I also got a limited edition stitch marker from Ann Tudor for Maise, the Highland Cow.   Look how adorable

I put them together for my newest Virus Shawl (that I did do some work on this past week)

I also finished my other Virus Shawl.  This thing his HUGE with 21 increases (the double circle sections down the middle)!

Before finishing, I wound into new ball:

And finished with only 9 grams left

The last thing I want to share is this cool mini projector thingy that Lupe bought for our bedroom that puts like a night sky on the cieling.....there are several differnt discs (kind of like those vintage view master things we had as kids but this is much smaller).  Look how cool our cieling looks at night.....

That is all I have.....Have a great week!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!