Congrats Grace and Sean!

Hey everyone!  How are you?  How was your past week?  Mine was good....not great, but good.  This coming week Jaime and I are going to the ROT Rally in Austin....I think ZZ Top is performing Saturday, so we may go to that too.   I will be taking knitting, but it will be light knitting since it will be sooooo hot outside....not sure how much knitting will actually get done :)

This past week I finished Paige's hat (I was super close to finishing last time I blogged).

I also worked on my mommy's socks

I worked a touch on my Augusta Shawl (crochet) and my "Double" Nuvem......yes, I pulled out my Nuvem because I am thinking of taking this to the ROT Rally.....Its a nice and mindless knit!

This week Grace (my niece) Graduated and Sean (my nephew) got his driver's license!  Congrats Grace and Sean!

Grace with my mommy and daddy!

Grace with Jim's (my bother in law) Father and Step Mother

Grace with Uncle Don (her Godfather)

Sean and License

Sean with his girlfriend, Leilani

Grace with her dad (my brother in law)

I also had Jaz and Antonio this past weekend

Well, that is all I have this past week.....I hope you all have an amazing week ahead!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!

Slow and Steady Wins the Race

Hey everyone....how are you?  My funk is not 'gone' but it is much, much better, so I am getting there slow and steady.

I have still been walking/running on the treadmill every day...I think I have done it for 13 out of the last 14 days....not bad!

My watch does not know what to do with itself.....it is going crazy with praise.

As far as knitting....I actually have some to show.....

I finished Paige's cowl....I gave it to Darlene to block, and forgot to take a picture of it before I gave it to her, so I'll have to wait till next week to get a picture of it.

My mom had a small out patient surgery last week, so I decided to get her socks started on work on them while I was at the hospital with her.

I also worked a little here and there on my Harry Potter socks.

And I pulled out a hat I started in 2014 for Paige and started working on it again....I want to get this finished this week!  The first picture is the picture of where it was when I left it alone in 2014...the 2nd picture is where I got to this week.

Lastly, I got a little caught up on my temperature blanket....not totally caught up, but I got to the 12th, so I am only about a week behind still....I am about 4 days away from being able to use my 'red' colorway for the first time.....I am hoping to catch up either during the week or this coming Memorial Day Weekend!

My niece is graduating from Antonian High School this year and she is going to SMU for College.  They had her graduation party this past Saturday....I am so proud of this girl....she has turned this die hard Longhorn into a Mustang!

Here is my sister and her beautiful family....I love them all so much!

Now for my random photos from the week:

I got my May delivery of tea from Plum Deluxe and it is delicious...English Berries & Cream Black Tea

I had Antonio this past weekend....this is us on the way to the party (Jaime was there too, but not in the picture)

And this is Precious' way of telling me she is a chair hog......get outta my chair chicka!

Beautiful sunrise at my work this morning from my desk

Have a great week everyone!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting !

Socks, Socks, Socks....Sock Madness?

Hi everyone....how has your week been?  Mine has been pretty good...except Paige had her purse stolen from her car Saturday night/Sunday morning.....I told her she was an idiot for leaving her purse in her car while out with friends....so hopefully lesson learned.

On to knitting......

I was able to finish my round 2 sock madness socks:

Then yesterday....the round 3 sock pattern was released.  It is called Safe Harbor (pattern here)

Here is a picture of them (copyright © Amy Rapp):

Now....I want to do them.....but....I have SOOOOOO many socks I WANT/NEED to do.  First there is the new yarn I just got....I want/need to make these:

Then there are the gryffindoor socks I need to make for Paige:

Then there is some new yarn I just got.....Darlene has a customer that sent her 2 skeins of Regia 4 ply self striping yarn and the colorway is of the German flag....when I mentioned this to my mom, she said "I may have to call Tante Mecki to get me some of that yarn so you can make me some of those."  My mother has never really 'asked' for me to make her anything and if she said she is gonna call her sister for yarn like this, then I know she will love these socks....so I told her no need to call Tante Mecki....I will make her socks with this yarn!  So again...another pair I need to make!

So yesterday I got yarn wound to start my Round 3 socks....I was thinking of using my Harry Potter Sirius's Gift colorway:

and then I busted out the Germany Flag yarn into two cakes to make matching socks and was gonna cast on......but.....some sort of wave of responsibility came over me.....and I told myself I need to finish my fingerless mitts before I allow myself to cast on more socks.  I tried to push Ms. Responsibility to the backburner, but she was not budging......so I worked on my mitts and have not cast on new socks (yet):

I told myself that as soon as I finish these mitts, I can cast on the round 3 socks and maybe my moms socks....then I thought of maybe doing the round 3 socks with the Germany yarn......but I need to look through some projects and see if anyone else is using self striping yarn.....


Now onto some Yarn Diet Breaking.....my friend, Rosanna, was working on the Augusta Shawl on the cruise with Wolltraum gradient yarn and I loved it.....so I got myself 2 skeins of this yarn...Cinnamon Girl and a custom color of "50 Shades of Grey"......

I am using the Cinnamon Girl for the Augusta shawl...and I am thinking of a large Jacket/vest for the grey.

Since I was working on the Augusta Shawl and it is crochet.....I thought that I should also catch up my temperature blanket....it is almost 20"  :)  I am caught up all the way to the 21st of April!

Well, that is really all I have......I got my flavor of the month tea from plum deluxe...Orange Black Tea

and I leave you with this morning's sunrise view from my work....Have a great week!

 

 

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!