MOM Monday

Just when you thought I was never coming back to the blog...

It's been a crazy couple of weeks as TMG and I moved and are working on getting settled in our new house. On top of that, I had my busiest week of the year at work, and on top of that, TMG and I were both sick all weekend. I'm feeling a bit better today, but took a sick day to play catch-up.

All that being said, I have been doing some knitting. I'm still working on the pieces of the Knitivity Scene from Fiona Goble's book for my mom. As Mother's Day is coming up this weekend, I thought it would be nice to give her a little something for her set, so I made up this little sheep:

Baaaaa!

The brown yarn is actually recycled 100% lambswool from a sweater I got at a thrift store. The black yarn is Debbie Bliss Wool/Cotton. Both of these are closer to a sport weight than to a DK, but gauge isn't terribly important. It can be a lamb!

Monday Moving Mayhem

Good Monday morning, all!
I've been maintaining relative radio silence here on the blog recently, largely because of this:

Mine!!

TMG and I bought our first house! I'm so excited! Of course, that means I'm moving. Again. For the third time in less than three years. Yep. The packing has already begun and the big move will happen after we close on March 25th, with the bulk of it happening over Easter weekend. I'll be blogging as regularly as I can during the process, but the packing and signing of paperwork (soooooo much paperwork) have been interfering with knitting time, so I haven't had much to post lately. Hang in there; we'll be back to the regularly-scheduled knitting soon!

New Year, New Blog!

I've been waiting a while to make this official announcement: effective 1/1/13 (or thereabouts...), the blog will be moving to http://k8erpillar.blogspot.com as part of a "re-branding" and consolidating of several accounts. I will do my best to move all of the content over and make the transition as seamless as possible, but do please update your bookmarks and let me know if anything goes wonky.

I'm looking forward to doing more reviews, starting the year with an exciting giveaway (!) and continuing to update with lots of photos of knitting, hexipuff updates, and other adventures in yarn.

Thanks for coming with me, and I wish everyone a very prosperous 2013!

Thursday Hexipuff Update!

I'm baaa-aack!

It has been a wild and crazy past few weeks as we have been going through the process of packing, moving, and now unpacking. I'm happy to say that we are now 90% settled, and I have resumed knitting. I even have a sweet new knitting/spinning space in our new place, of which I'll post pictures when it's finished.

It is my goal to update the blog with a running total of my Hexipuff count each Thursday. I'm aiming to complete my Beekeeper's Quilt (a total of approximately 384 puffs) by the end of 2012.

Today's Tally:

As of this posting, I have completed a total of 93 Hexipuffs! Only 291 more to go!

 

The striped puff in the top center is a sneak peek at tomorrow's FO Friday project!

 

 

I am hoping to hit the 100 puff mark before the next post.  In order to stay on pace to finish by the end of the year, I need to keep up a pace of approximately 1.04918 puffs per day (or 7.344 per week). I fell off this pace with my traveling and moving recently, and am only averaging .9789 puffs per day at this point. I am hoping to catch up over the next few days, as I have a four-day weekend involving traveling to see my in-laws.

Monday Madness: MOM, Mary, Music, and Moving!

Another Monday, another update on the Mary figure I'm making for my mom. I've made some progress this week; her body, hair, veil, and cape are now completed, and I've started on her dress.

I'm going to let Mary knit her own dress for a while.

The bigger project underway in our household is our impending move. We are getting packed up and we ship out on Thursday.

That's our back door... pretty sure we're in violation of the fire code. Don't tell!

Finally, I missed last week's Hexipuff update because I was in Timonium, MD, attending the annual conference of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Music Therapy Association. I got a lot of knitting done on one of my WIPs while I was there... any guesses which one? I'll reveal it on Wednesday (if we haven't packed up the computer and camera by then).

Thursday Hexipuff Update!

It is my goal to update the blog with a running total of my Hexipuff count each Thursday. I'm aiming to complete my Beekeeper's Quilt (a total of approximately 384 puffs) by the end of 2012.

Today's Tally:

As of this posting, I have completed a total of 82 Hexipuffs! Only 302 more to go!

I am still making steady progress toward my goal. My pace suffered a bit over the past two weeks due to the old "life gets in the way" song and dance. To keep it short and sweet, TMG and I are in the process of packing up and moving yet again, this time on account of having the worst, loudest, drunkest neighbors known to man. Once the dust settles, I'm hoping to get back into full-scale puff production. 

Next week I'm heading to Baltimore for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Music Therapy conference. I'm hoping that this trip will afford me some much-needed knitting time, and allow me to make progress on both my puffs and a few other languishing projects. Updates to come!

Ta-Da Tuesday

I can't believe I've been away from the blog for 3+ weeks! It has been a crazy time with moving to a new home out of state, leaving one job and starting another, and being away from TMG. I am happy to say that all of the pieces of the puzzle seem to be finally falling into place, and things should be settled very soon.

I don't have photos of the new apartment to share yet (where is that darn camera?), but they will be up very soon (I hope). Same goes for recent knitting projects. I cast on a pair of Endpaper Mitts this week and I'm having fun honing my colorwork skills. I hope to have a WIP photo for tomorrow... but no promises!