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.