Butterfly's Flutter-bys

The random thoughts that flutter through my mind...

Finished Object: Socks!

They're finished! My very first pair of adult socks. (I don't think the baby ones count, somehow. They were just too tiny to seem like real socks, I guess.)

After binding off the second sock, I had a ball that was less than an inch wide. Glad I didn't make the cuff any taller, I mighta run out of yarn.

They even tie in with June's BLUE theme for Project Spectrum.

Yay, me, I have now joined the ranks of sock knitters. (Can't wait to start another pair. Okay, honestly, I've already started another pair. But those are for Ethel, who asked very nicely if I would knit her a pair of socks.)

I've considered knitting something for our local 4H fair- but the day to turn in projects for the open class for knitting is next Wednesday, and I still haven't thought of anything worth showing, let alone knit anything.

Posted by: ButterflyLane at 17:13 | link | comments (3) | knitting, project spectrum

Sigh...

The universe is laughing at me today.  Ethel was up until 2am with a stomachache, and of course, being sleep-deprived, this was the day that I didn't set the alarm properly... so I didn't wake up until 8:30 (and I'm supposed to be at work at 8).  On the way to work, I pass a half-empty Dr. Pepper bottle, and maybe a block further down, an Oreo cookie package.  Keep in mind that this is a very tidy residential area where there is almost never any litter.  And of the three things I see, two are my favorite snack and drink?  (The other was a bottle of water.  That was probably a snide dig about my need to drink more water.)

On a positive note, tonight is the final for my Cost Accounting class.  After tonight, I will never have to take another accounting class ever again!  Yay, me.

Posted by: ButterflyLane at 08:51 | link | comments |

Update on random stuff.

Well, I did knit in public on WorldWide Knit In Public Day... at first at the movies, where Oshu and I took the short people to see Cars.  It was adorable, I loved it- George is still talking about it- and I highly recommend that you take any short people in your vicinity to see it at least once (we will most likely go again if it goes to the dollar theatre across town). 

I did do some other knitting in public that day, but it was in the ER.  George was spinning around in circles in the livingroom (yet again, despite frequent scoldings) and fell into the lamp table.  He had a massive bump- but more scarily, he started saying that he was cold and wanted to take a nap... so we hightailed it to the hospital.  As usual, his head proved to be the hardest part  of him, and he was fine. 

Ethel had an appointment with her Optometrist on Friday.  Turns out she is even more my child than was previously supposed... she will be getting her first pair of glasses this week (right after finishing second grade)- only a few months later than I got my first pair.  She's very excited- I let her pick the frames she liked best, although she was a bit disappointed that they didn't have anything that fit her properly in pink.  She settled on a gold frame that perfectly sets off the gold highlights in her hair.  We'll pick them up one day this week.

I finished the socks and hat on Thursday- in plenty of time for Saturday's baby shower.  Now I've started a pair of booties for a girl Oshu works with- she's due mid-August, so I better hurry!  I'll leave you with a picture of the hat.  I had to lay it flat for the picture, since Ethel doesn't have any dolls that are newborn-sized, but you can get the idea.

Posted by: ButterflyLane at 22:44 | link | comments (1) |

From the mouths of babes...

or at least smart-aleck eight-year-olds.  My mil likes to buy books at yard sales, read them, and then give them to me.  When she brought the last pile, she said she'd asked Ethel if I still read a lot.  Ethel's answer?  "No, now she just knits all the time."  Brat.

Posted by: ButterflyLane at 10:43 | link | comments (1) |

Argh.

Since most of the knitting blogs and knit-alongs are on blogger, I thought (there was my first mistake) that it would be a good idea to resurrect my old blogger blog as a knitting blog.  Now I remember why I killed it.  Blogger is a pain in the ass.  Sigh.

Thank goodness for Howard and Motime. 

Monday I got an invitation to my cousin's daughter's baby shower.  Which, I might add, is in less than two weeks.  I dug through the stash (Yay me, I didn't succumb to temptation and buy more yarn!) and found the perfect yarn to make a pair of teeny tiny baby socks.  To be sure they would fit, I borrowed Monkey's foot.  (His mother looked very confused when I asked it I could borrow one of her kid's feet.  I love confusing my siblings.)  Sock #1 fit his 4-month-old foot a bit snugly, so it should fit a newborn girl perfectly.  See?  Isn't it adorable?

The other thing is that I finally finished (well, all but the heel- I'm waiting to be sure I have enough yarn to finish both socks before doing heels- I'd much rather do the heels in a different color than get almost finished with the second sock and run out) my first ME sock.  It's pretty, too.  I love this colorway.  The little snippet on the needles is the toe of sock #2.  Yay, socks!  I love socks.

Posted by: ButterflyLane at 09:17 | link | comments | knitting, summer of stash

Gulp.

I signed up for the Summer of Stash.  Now, admittedly, I have nowhere near the amount of yarn some of these ladies do, but I still have way more than I need.  So, when I get home tonight, I'll fire up the camera and drag out all the stash.  I might even do like Lolly did and figure out how many yards and miles of yarn I actually have. 

While it's out, I'll make a list of things to do with the various yarns- I might even put some of the icky ones in the yard sale box.  :)

Posted by: ButterflyLane at 12:26 | link | comments (1) | knitting, summer of stash

Knit in Public day

I am totally going to do this.  Okay, so I knit in public all the time, but still.  Saturday it's official. 

Posted by: ButterflyLane at 10:04 | link | comments (1) | knitting