I know a Saturday posting is unusual for me. I didn’t post yesterday as I had to pick up two sick kids from daycare. They woke up early on Friday, both running low grade fevers, but by the time it was time to get moving, they were both cool. I debated and wound up taking them to school. Some voice inside of me figured they wouldn’t stay so I stayed home and worked from there. Was a good thing too, I got the call at 11:30. Alex had just woken from his nap and was feverish. Kat was still asleep, but she too was awake and feverish by the time I made the 1 mile drive to the center. I was able to catch mom at the store so she could pick up a few things. Long story short, its now 8pm on Sat and the twins are sleeping, their fevers having been very low or non-existent all day. They took an almost 4 hour nap from 10 to 2 which allowed me to tie up some loose ends.
My first trick was to finally sew some buttons on Alexander’s hoodie, which has been sitting around waiting for them since May 2 when I finished knitting and assembling it. Pathetic eh? Couldn’t sew on 5 buttons in a little more than a month. 
In my defense, I didn’t have buttons for it for the WHOLE time. I did get that selection of buttons off eBay and tossed them in the bin next to my computer for later. I was at WalMart recently, well looking for the Baylene 2 circular needles if you must know, when I found little bags of oodles of buttons in different color schemes. I grabbed bunches of them and found a good use for all those dopey empty baby food jars I had been stashing (they’re good for beads too). After the twins got up from their nap, I had the boy try on his sweater. Okay so there’s a goofy look on his face but at least I got the pacifier out of his mouth for a change. Toddlers are tough to photograph. You pull out the camera and they head straight for you! This was the best of the bunch. Notice the sleeve is rolled up on him. He should be able to get some good wear out of it. This might be a pipe dream but I’m hoping that he can wear it next spring. Yeah, I’m new in this growing baby game thing.
Anyway… while the feather and fan socks might have made their debut at Cummington, they were never memorialized for here. That’s partly due to the fact that I finished them on the train home last Friday (PATH train actually) and upon arrival I commenced packing for the weekend. I took them outside to pose in the surprise sunshine as it was supposed to be pretty cruddy today. I still have plenty of yarn left so I might just make another pair, or more than likely pairs for the twins. Maybe time to pull out that issue of IK with the baby socks and scale up.
Lastly, I finished off my obligation to the Knit Club group project. While the first two where done within some 72 hours of getting the yarn, I stuffed the project in a bag for a bit and ignored it. After the less than enjoyable knit club gathering this week I decided to get it in gear and finish them. It is nothing more than a 42 stitch, 72 row garter stitch square in that Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece. After glowing about it in an earlier review, yes it is far softer than some cottons and I couldn’t complain about the way my hands felt using it, I will have to say that it splits something fierce! I picked up the third square last night having completed some 10 ridges (20 rows for newbies 
and finished it in about an hour. I cast on for the fourth one, got 16 ridges into it and put it down to really concentrate on the program that I had been watching on ReplayTV (Facts behind the Da Vinci Code that had aired earlier this week on History, IIR). In short order I fell asleep on the couch, waking up at midnight. I went to bed then. I didn’t feel like schlepping the squares outside to pose on the shrubbery (Ni!) like the socks and the hoodie so I’m subjecting you to an arty shadow/light on the back of the sofa shot.
I’m happy that I can remove a couple of things from my WIP section. YAY! I need to get moving on Trellis so that I can make the other baby gift. The intended recipient of that has been determined and I ain’t saying more. Blogs have readers (which I still find amazing to be truthful). I got the shipping notification that my Rogue yarn is on its way. I hope I get gauge with it, but I might just take the happy fabric gauge and switch sizes in the pattern to get the desired results. Same trick I did for the hoodie but reverse as that was a heavier yarn than the largest pattern size. I suspect that I’ll be working a worsted on an aran and will have to move up one pattern size to get my size. I’m going to take Cassie’s advice and steek a swatch before trying on something far larger. If I’m not a basket case by the end of that, I’ll take an existing sweater and convert it to a cardigan. I have the perfect one in mind too. It is the lamb’s pride top down raglan pullover in white that I made just before I started blogging. I only really wore it once last winter and would definitely get more wear out of it as a cardigan. I have plenty more yarn for it (was an eBay bahgain dahling) so I can play. Kat is still wearing her Debbie Bliss cardigan so I’m not in a terrible rush to make her a new one, though there is plenty of yarn here in pinks to do one.
I’m oh so tempted to skip working on one of my existing WIP’s and cast on for something entirely new: ChicKnits Mondo Cable. I bought the pattern a while ago and I have the Rowan All Seasons Cotton in several colors thanks to the binging two weeks ago. Not to mention that it is starting to look alot like summer around here. It would probably be a super fast project and I could get back to the baby things before they even notice I’m gone. Hmm. I think I just talked myself into it. I’m off to add another WIP. At least I got rid of 3 before adding one. No? Works for me. Now the hard part, which color.
Knit on!
