With my Get This Shit Done list basically finished (just have to bind-off the NYC shawl & block her to death), I swatched for the Wallaby. Let's talk about this project. I finished one for the nephew & never blogged about it, this doesn't mean that I hated it. The yarn choice was disastrous, but the pattern was quite the opposite. So this time I around, I made a wiser decision in the fiber category. Why not give Peace Fleece a whirl? I found one semi-local store that carried a small selection. I wanted the Shaba color, but I was also stuck with it since it was the only color with multiple skeins available. This green actually has perked up my mood the past 2 days! I smile at it as if Ms. Jolie caught me gawking to long. I love the color green! Hell, the Starbuck's logo makes me giddy with it's black & green goodness (I know some people hate 'em, but I don't care right now). The pattern's gauge is 9 stitches to 2 inches. Immediately, I went down a needle size. I'm loose in many ways. Hearing that Peace Fleece blooms, I went down to a 6. Seeing that I wasn't going to make it with that needle, after 4 inches I switched to a 5. Seriously people, I'm still only getting 8 stitches to 2 inches! What the hell? It doesn't seem like a bulky yarn, but something is happening with my Peace Fleece. Gus is a big kid, so I'm going to spit at the swatch & knit the 4T with the wrong gauge. It should turn out larger (right?), but he can wear it through the fall & winter. If we were buying him a jacket now, I'd buy him a 4T. I guess I could always shrink it.
Ava, here's what's waiting for you. Gus was "helping" SK remove some rocks. I know that letting a 2 year-old play with a hammer is highly innapproprate, but he had fun. Sure he'd probably have fun driving the family car too, but I'll draw the line when he asks.
-Lola
Make me feel guilty, why dontcha! I knit the first nephew a sweater, the neice a sweater and a poncho - but the baby? NOTHING!
He's a cutie. I love being an aunt!
Posted by: Cara | June 06, 2007 at 05:48 PM
Damn, chica . . . I am so glad that you used this title for a post. There have been so many times that I wanted to but didn't for fear that the Flyer might go, "Hmmm . . . doink!"
I am seeing Dad in the Guster with that photo. Nice to see that you are training him in a craft at an early age. Love the Crocs! See you in two days!!
Posted by: Ava | June 06, 2007 at 05:48 PM
Innappropriate? Nahhhhhhhhhhh - we actually went out and BOUGHT our own 2-year old his very own real hammer! Now granted, we bought him the lightest one we could find at Lowe's, and he's only EVER allowed to use it outside (dear god, never EVER on the front porch, as the huge bank of windows might prove too much temptation for him) but still, we purposely put one in his hands! And bang away with joy & glee he most certainly does...............
Posted by: Secretsockpal | June 07, 2007 at 11:11 AM