Dying in your sleep is not safe....get out of bed first!

so, I started this blog at a time when I was literally, dying in my sleep. I was seeing colours in everything. I think I had just dyed up a load of BFL Top for the Small Girls jumper, and I called the yarn Snowsuit. It was winter, and the view at the bottom of my garden at about 3:30, kinda just before sunset, was soooo rich, that I wanted to dye it, to keep forever. So I did. stove top on BFL top, with a solid green and semi-solid brown/orange and a blue/white. Now I have finished spinning it up, and Small Boy has decreed it good enough for his next hand knit sweater, though I'm not sure there is enough.

I'll do another top-down raglan design, but perhaps open all the way up the front, so if I run out of this handspun, it will look fine "topped up" with something different. Also i found with the last one it was great for random yarn, as I could write the pattern to the gauge of the yarn. this time though I will not cut corners by knitting straight off the bobbin. oh, no. the last one bloomed an ass-load. I have learned from my mistake>:P
Any hoo, good job I did dye it up, as the council are trying to build bungalows back there now, and that lovely backdrop of sycamore trees will be chopped down to make way for more ill-planned housing, sigh. the yarn is very satisfying though.

Me time!

even with the pc back, and gardening in full swing, i still have found knitting time this past month. i had forced it upon myself, as at the beginning of april i was supposed to be having a stall at the local Independant Arts Centre, but the organizer was super-slack, and didn't get back to me, over 2 weeks of attempted communication. so now i have a pile of baby booties, and know i can fit in 3 hours of knitting a day, if i really don't want to see another human-being, or cook. so now i have been jaded by this lack of response & warmer weather, i got out something for ME. thats right. put aside the mummy Material and got started on my Sherbet cardi, from Yarn Forward magazine. nice lace-ish pattern, I will feel so chuffed when it is done, knowing I did it all.

It is good to remember you are allowed your own time when you are a parent, to be unproductive or frivalous with your time. the Man goes into his workshop and does random things like turning fire extinguishers into hard-core Super-Soakers, and I am knitting thinnish guage sox or cardis for myself. sometimes I read, but that is dangerous (I finished the twilight series, with only one more up-all-night session. close call!). if you pretend it is "work(like the booties)", it seems to be easier to get childcare, but deep down, it doesn't count.
anyway, the pattern is mostly well-written, and the pics on ravelry are great for helping through the less-clear measurements on the yoke.