Friday, February 14, 2014


O.k. so it's Valentine's Day and this is sweet so it counts right?  I just have to go get some stuffing and sew it together.

Happy Valentine's Day if you celebrate that kind of thing.  My husband and I are very laid back about it. Usually I'll  buy something kind of expensive (for me) around Valentine's Day and call it my present.  I know my husband's coworkers have given him a hard time in the past for not getting me something but really what would he get me that I want?  Flowers die, I don't need more sugar and do you know how much yarn you can get for the price of  some jewelry?  I did get a little stuffed toy with some candy for the kids.

I got the first repeat done on my husband's sweater.  I still feel really behind.  I was worried that it would be small till I realized that the style of the sweater was close fitting and not puffy like a sweat shirt.  I didn't even think of that when I was picking patterns I was looking at the cables.  I should have gone up a size so he could have that bulky feel but I am not ripping it out again.  I hate the cable needle I bought.  I almost made a Knit Picks order but I stopped myself.  I tried some things I have around the house and what worked best (for me) was a small crochet hook about a size 2.  I could slip the stitches with the hook end and knit off the blunt handle.  It was a little long but way less cumbersome than the fat hook shaped one I have (it looks like a fishing hook for an alligator or something).  I'll have to keep an eye out for a better cable needle like the crochet hook.  People suggest double point needles but I don't own any.  I may go to the yarn store for their knit night so maybe they have something better than what I have.  I'm taking  break from my husband's sweater today and working on my shawl. I'm stuck on the ice cream pillows right now.

Yesterday I did watch Running Man.  The episodes were funny but nothing stood out to me a note worthy. Gary is my favorite right now. Today I plan to play WOW so I don't know how much knitting I'll get done.  

I'm so much better.  Just a little drippy nose left.  My husband is rarely sick so even though it's not hitting him as hard he's paranoid about how sick he is.  He was asking if I thought he had mono.  He cracks me up sometimes.  My daughter is sick now but she really wanted to go to school for the Valentine's party.  She'll be o.k. I just hope she isn't too miserable.  

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