We're so excited! We're organized,
getting through the laundry, the tickets have arrived, accomodations
are booked. We're taking our first family vacation and travelling by VIA
to the Lake. Its a two day train ride, through the backwoods of
Ontario to Ottermere
And if you don't like the big graphic on my blog...suck it up I had to go big...its that small!!!
Everything is arranged, we just have to pack up. But in a crisis that only my knitting friends can understand...I'm not sure what project I'm taking! It has to be super portable, and something that will keep me both entertained and interested but I have to be able to keep on eye on Caleb or else I'll never touch it. Amanda bought me a great knitting book for my birthday basically for rebel knitters who have trouble using patterns. Now I didn't say following, I said using. Jamie will understand. I think she has yet to swatch anything!
The "pattern" I think I'm going with is in Mason Dixon Knitting, one of the log cabin blankets. The great part of the book is that it has personality, humour and warmth. They offer the basic idea behind a pattern then show variations on it, and other creative ways of approaching the task. As suggested for one of the blankets, I'm going to try it in a denim or at least a cotton, colours still undecided. Jamie and I are going shopping tomorrow to see what yummy things we can dig up. I have two baby blankets I'd like to make, one for a girl already born and one for a boy in October. (we won't even talk about the two unknowns! Lots of time!!! ACK!) So I figure this will keep me out of trouble for a while. I can work on it when I go into Winnipeg for work.
Oh, and to add to their list of places we have tried to knit and failed....court. Much like their funeral, I didn't try to knit either, but the sign says,
And if you don't like the big graphic on my blog...suck it up I had to go big...its that small!!!
Everything is arranged, we just have to pack up. But in a crisis that only my knitting friends can understand...I'm not sure what project I'm taking! It has to be super portable, and something that will keep me both entertained and interested but I have to be able to keep on eye on Caleb or else I'll never touch it. Amanda bought me a great knitting book for my birthday basically for rebel knitters who have trouble using patterns. Now I didn't say following, I said using. Jamie will understand. I think she has yet to swatch anything!
The "pattern" I think I'm going with is in Mason Dixon Knitting, one of the log cabin blankets. The great part of the book is that it has personality, humour and warmth. They offer the basic idea behind a pattern then show variations on it, and other creative ways of approaching the task. As suggested for one of the blankets, I'm going to try it in a denim or at least a cotton, colours still undecided. Jamie and I are going shopping tomorrow to see what yummy things we can dig up. I have two baby blankets I'd like to make, one for a girl already born and one for a boy in October. (we won't even talk about the two unknowns! Lots of time!!! ACK!) So I figure this will keep me out of trouble for a while. I can work on it when I go into Winnipeg for work.
Oh, and to add to their list of places we have tried to knit and failed....court. Much like their funeral, I didn't try to knit either, but the sign says,
- No hats
- No chewing gum or eating candies
- No cell phone or pagers should be on
- No newspapers or books
