Hot Off the Needles!

Without further delay, the Super-Natural Stripes Sweater:

The ticking of the clock

and the clicking of the needles clash;

Not in rhythm.

I think of you; will it fit?

What color are your eyes, your hair?

The finished sweater waits

to envelop you.

Game of cribbage?

Nature Boy doesn't like me to post his photos. He says he doesn't want to find his face has been superimposed into a pornographic photo somewhere on the internet because of me featuring it here. So, I can only post those that showcase another, though none less lovely, feature of his:

That's right, the Craftorium is being slowly transformed into a nursery and Madison Penelope has been involved with every step, as she is the official Investigator and Inspector of Knitsburgh. We bought the crib and the mattress and the mattress cover and the bedding and Nature Boy assembled the crib. I have moved all of the fibre out and into the spare bedroom. The craft cabinet Nature Boy made for me lives there too now, along with the sewing table and machine. I would be sad about it but since it's for such a good reason, I'm dealing well with it all, despite the soft playing of the pipes in the background. Nature Boy has also done a fabulous job transforming the storage closet into a proper Closet for Wee One Things. Thank goodness I found me a handy guy!

I finished one sleeve on the Super Natural Stripes sweater. One more to go and the trim and voila, the Wee One's very first sweater! Then I can get to those other ideas popping about in my brain. Maybe then I will have room for the normal everyday things I am forgetting, like turning off my car lights so the battery isn't dead when I come out of work after a 10 hour day and it's dark and cold outside. Yeah, that was called Yesterday. Today was much brighter!

New Moon, New Perspectives

So what does one do when they drag their arse into work on a Saturday morning and slave until midday, only to discover Nature Boy is not yet home from work himself?

One heads off to the yarn store and gets down with the fibre! I picked me a pretty bouquet of some cotton yummy-ness that also happened to be on sale. I got some very relaxed tones and then got some more exciting skeins in red and orange too.

The relaxed tones are going into the first sweater for the Wee One, from this pattern by Fawn Pea:

I started it yesterday and unlike the blanket, it is flying along. It seems so tiny, I can't believe a baby might fit into it soon!

The vibrant tones...I will reveal their purpose at some later date and time. After work and the yarn store, I ran to the market and then came home, gathered up Nature Boy and headed to Bill and Kay's for dinner. Yesterday instead of resting, I spent half the day decluttering and cleaning Knitsburgh, then relaxed on el-coucho with the little sweater. Nature Boy cooked me dinner too, isn't he sweet?

I never updated the world at large who flocks to read this regarding my cube troubles, but things have been much better. A few days after I posted about my "cube mate" our whole department had to move to another floor and were assigned new cubes. Now I sit a few cubes away from her and it's much easier to ignore her negativity. I love how things work themselves out! Thank you universe, you are truly amazing!

Plan for tonight: finish laundry, knit and watch Paranormal State. With a big bowl of soy ice cream and some crumbled up cookies and some chocolate syrup. Did I mention I'm pregnant?