Happy May Flowers

Well, it is already May and I am looking forward to some beautiful flowers.....I am not looking forward to the heat, but I am looking forward to seeing pretty flowers on the roadsides.

This past week was May The Fourth.....which is like Star Wars Day aka Geek Day....Now, I am a geek, but I am not a Star Wars Gal.  However, I can play along as long as it has to do with Knitting.

Let me jump into some stash enhancements.......TWO fabulous new bag sets from Bags By Awesomegrannie

Knit Happens

and Knitting Chickens (is there anything cute than chickens knitting?)

I love these knitting chickens so much, I moved my May socks into this bag

Here is my start....I teased on Instagram that I would knit one sock and the chickens wound knit the 2nd....the chickens are slacking!

I got my DVD swag from first quarter Instagram posts.....a dvd button, a yarn tag, and some stitch markers on a D Ring.  Thank you Susan!

I also got some great new socks with sheep on them....super cute!

As far as knitting, I pretty much worked my fingers to the bone on my Fade this past week.  I want to try to finish before the new Joji Mystery Wrap clue 1 is released this coming Friday the 12th.

Here is my 6th color

Here is my 7th color (there are  very few stitches to the left of my stitch marker....Yeah)!

I am still hoping to finish my fade in a couple of days and then work on my socks till Friday......Here are my colors for the Joji Mystery Wrap...

That is it for the knitting....but for some random things from my week:

Recently, I bought a few new shirts and pants for work and so did Darlene....well, last Monday we both wore the exact same shirt and we did not even know the other person had both bought it......Darlene wore it better, but we are some pretty cute BFFs!

 

 

Jaime has owned his own business for 17 years, but he decided to get a new job working for someone else and he starts today....so I took him out this past Friday night to Pappadeaux (the new location by La Cantera) since Jaime loves Cajun Food and Seafood.

 

He got the Texas Redfish with Shrimp and I got a Prime Beef Ribeye....it was all so fabulous and delicious (so much for loosing weight)....they had a Butternut Squash Risotto that was delicious and grilled Asparagus and a lump crab meat in béarnaise.

 

It was so much to eat that I had enough left over for a full meal on Saturday night.

 

 

 

I also had a friend tag me with this picture on Facebook....I love it...but of course change Crochet to Knitting :)

 

 

 

Celeste and Cataleya came over yesterday.....they played with Antonio and hung out with Oma.....I got them some Sumo Boppers (that can also be used at a river or beach)...they had a blast:

 

Celeste is getting so big....she used to HATE for me to take pictures of her...and now she welcomes it!

 

 

Well, that is all I have.....Have a great week!

 

 

 

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!



Ready, Set, Go.....Second Annual Big 4 Retreat

It is May 1st and here we go......are you ready!  I know many have joined us in the Chatter thread (here) so I hope we give lots and lots and lots of WIPS some love and make them FO's!

Welcome to the Second Annual Big 4 Retreat!  Put on you PJ's (or comfy clothes), grab a chair and join me with some WIP knitting!

Here is my official list of items:

Find Your Fade, I am 50% done
Snowmelt KAL, I am 19% done
My Aunt's Converse Socks, I can only guess that I am about 5% done
Briochevron Cowl, I can only guess that I am about 15% or 20% done.

Now....for this past week.....I finished the little Voodoo You Love for Antonio, he has named him Stephen!

I finished my April socks (barely in time)!

I also repaired my mom's socks (the heel was comin loose...picture towards the end of this old post in March)

May will be Black Forest Cake...these socks will be for me for sure!

I also got to start my 5th color in my Fade.....it is Madeline Tosh Sock in the Antique Lace Colorway...you can barely see it because it does go so well with the Lucille...but it still looks great!

I guess I was a little bit in a blanket mood this past weekend.  I started a new Aran Blanket with lots of cables...the pattern is ridiculously written (in my opinion).  It has 4 different patterns, and two of them have 8 row repeats, one has a 16 row repeats and one has a 24 row repeat.  So, I could be on row 3, 11, and 19 all at the same time.  My brain cannot keep track of that and knit....so I had to put it in a chart form:

Here it is so far (which is not far at all).  This will be an ongoing project that I hope to work on here and there....I am just praying I can actually do it...it is a lot of paying attention to the chart ;)

I also pulled out my crochet blanket with Leading Men Fiber Arts yarn....I got a little done, but not a whole lot....maybe 8 rows and then the start of a new one.

That is all I knit (and crocheted) on this past week....most of my week was consumed by the socks...I just do not know how people knit a pair in a day....it amazes me!

For a Stash Enhancement, I got my NIP (Nobody is Perfect) yarn from Wollmeise....I thought I would get the same color...but I got 2 different colors....Heavy Metal (I already have one of these, so I hope I can put these two together for super yardage) and Gipfelstürmer...which is a blue grey.....whatever I make with this will go great with jeans and a shirt!

That is all I have knitting wise.....but if you want to hear about Antonio, my Niece, and my cousin's son....read on:

I think a week ago I told you about 'Fiesta'.  Well, Antonio had a little Fiesta Parade at his school....his classroom had the category of 'Insect'.  At first he wanted to be a caterpillar, then changed his mind to be a spider.  Paige did such a fabulous job on his costume:

He was a perfect Spider!

My niece had her prom this past weekend....she is so beautiful!

Here is my sister and her Beautiful Family.  From Left to Right....my nephew, Sean, my Brother in Law, Jim, my niece, Grace, and my sister, Janice.

Last week I forgot to post a picture of my Cousin's son and his new Bride.  Congrats Joshua and Blaine Campbell!

 

Have a great week everyone!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!