I am one tired camper today. After a most excellent hour of ‘House’ last night, I turned in early. Good thing too. Alex was up on and off crying from 12:15AM until almost 3 when he finally fell back to sleep and stayed that way, in my bed of course. Naturally Kat was up at 6:15 crying. Oh there was a short period around 1ish when Alex had drifted off and I was unable to go to sleep as THE NOISE UPSTAIRS was intolerable. The bedroom above mine has no carpeting on the hardwood floor. Grandma lives in that room. Grandma seems a bit hyper from anytime I’ve ever come in contact with her. She WOULD NOT STOP MOVING around last night with those squeaky arsed floorboards and the sliding closet doors. I finally stood on my bed and banged on the ceiling. Bitty stopped moving about then. Damnit, I shouldn’t have to do that. I can’t wait to move, packing be damned.
Ooops, sorry about that. Tired spewing. Feel better now though. I took advantage of the gift certificate I got having bought diapers from Amazon and picked up a new book. Surprise. A knitting book. Which you can see here with the second sleeve from Klaralund. I made it to the first garter section last night so I’m halfway done with it. Will be nice to see this one done finally. Anyway, I picked up Priscilla Gibson-Roberts Knitting in the Old Way to add to my collection of knitting technique rather than pattern books. It should fit in nicely with EZ’s Knitting Without Tears and and Jackie Fee’s Sweater Workshop, not to mention Righetti’s Sweater Design in Plain English. Anyone get the sense that I’m about to break off from the confines of the printed patterns? I started reading the book last night and came oh-so-close to just letting the ReplayTV grab House and continue with the reading.
My next big sweater project (ignore all the other ones I’ve announced, purchased the yarn for and just put on the pile) is one I’m going to design. Deb and I have been chatting about it for a bit now. I’m planning on
- a cardigan
- done in the round
- neck down
- with steeks (now that I have them under my belt)
- Cascade 200 – probably a mix of the quatro and a coordinating solid
- Fibonacci sequence stripes
I think between EZ, MR and JF, I could probably accomplish this with minimal tearing of the hair. Deb and I are off to Modern Yarn a week from Saturday to celebrate our Olympic medals. I’m going to indulge in some Cascade stash enhancement and see if I can grab me some yarn for this project. That’s the plan anyway 
The new toy, according to UPS Tracking, is out for delivery. Tonight though involves an early dinner and then off to David’s Bridals to order my bridesmaids dress for my sister’s wedding. The wedding is in June and a couple of us girls are hitting the shop to order tonight. It seems either the color she wanted (mystic purple) I or the style top she wanted are being discontinued so we need to order NOW. My few remaining memory cells are useless right now so details tomorrow. Maybe.
Craft on.
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6 responses so far ↓
1 Carole // Mar 8, 2006 at 11:43 am
That’s a stinky night you reported. Hope you can get some rest tonight!
2 --Deb // Mar 8, 2006 at 12:03 pm
At least it’s just a matter of weeks before you can move. Weeks. Not months. (And, I know, that’s scary as regards the packing, but GOOD as regards the peace and quiet!) Knitting in the Old Way is an awesome book–I have a copy from its earlier incarnation and think it’s a super reference. Good choice!
3 Claudia // Mar 8, 2006 at 12:08 pm
I think my bloglines has been acting up – I hadn’t seen a new post from you in days and today there were a bunch! Hang in there (I so know what it is to have horrible nosy neighbours above you!) and the move will be soon, and a new phase will begin!! Have fun dress shopping tonight!
4 Janette // Mar 8, 2006 at 12:25 pm
I hate the late night neighbor. The woman above us in our last apartment worked afternoons and liked to clean when she got home. Lainey always slept through it, but the vacuum turning on at 2 a.m. always woke me right up. Some people just don’t think. I love the bridesmaid dress. Thank goodness you got a heads up that they’re being discontinued.
5 Chris // Mar 8, 2006 at 12:35 pm
My sympathies on the overhead noise! I remember when we lived under a rebellious teenage girl angry at her mom over a divorce (and anything else she could muster). My ceiling ended up with lots of dents from my broom handle. Even after they left, we had to put up with leftover annoyances from them: the kitchen sink backed up into the dishwasher and overflowed into my hall wall, and they abandoned their cat locked in the apartment. It was the huge water bubble in my wall that led to us finding the poor cat about a week after they left. Of course, it was abandoning the cat that led to the water issue – they at least left the poor cat with a supply of food and water dripping from the kitchen faucet. I ended up with the cat and the task of finding her a home. Good luck with the moving – need a hand?
6 Nancy J // Mar 8, 2006 at 12:43 pm
OK, now that I have your knitting planned sequence in hand, getting Cascade for your project means that you can Pack Up all the rest of the yarn excepting for current projects and maybe one sock carry-along for the move!
Hope Alex isn’t getting the Spring Break uckies!