Pattern: Cast on 57 stitches
Me: Check - cast on 59 stitches
Pattern: Set-up rnd:P1, (K2, P2) 13 times, etc.
Me: Hmm, I’m off somewhere
Me: But I can’t seem to find my mistake
Me: Rip, and restart
Pattern: Cast on 57 stitches
Me: Check - cast on 59 stitches

and so it continued a few more times. Why my fixation on the number 59, honestly I do not know, and that was just the first sleeve. I still had one more sleeve to cast on, and although I finally got the number 57 firmly planted in my mind I kept casting them on the wrong needle so they were going backwards. Apparently me and late night cast on parties do not mix, but by the next morning all was well.

So I’ve finished the body of the Tangled Yoke cardigan and as you can see have now started the sleeves. Next I get to attach the sleeves and finally get to the tangled yoke part.

In other knitting news I have finished another hat, and yes it does very much look like the last one, except for this one is embellished. Missy liked the first one so much that she begged me to make a bigger one for her. I really tried to be the good mom. I said sure I’ll knit you that hat, she asked can it have flowers. Yes, if it flowers you want, flowers you’ll get. (Stop it we really do talk like this, really)

Bamfoozled again. The hat is way to small for missy. The circumference is fine, it’s just way to shallow in the depth, and I’m out of yarn. It does fit Nathan perfectly, although he will not be wearing it. This hat will be going to a dear family friend who’s little girl just turned 3 so all is not lost. Well, except for my missy who is still without a hat with flower.

I did have missy convinced that the beginnings of this little guy was a funky hat though.

Even took pictures of it on little mans head - but they totally did not come out. She soon found out that indeed it was not a hat - but Kate from Knitty. It was supposed to be a goofy Christmas present for her*, but super secret holiday knitting is hard to keep under-cover in this house of children always in my personal space. So now she’s seen Kate and thinks it would be “totally cute” (must be said squealing two octaves above normal voice) if it had big fat bunny ears. So that’s were I’m stuck at now. I’m on my third round of attempting non-monster like bunny ears.

So what’s new with you? :)

*Every year Nicole asks for a kitten for Christmas. Every year we get her one, but they have all been the stuffed variety. In the past some have purred, some have been so sweet looking and totally cuddly, and then some have just been down right scary. This has gone on for the last 10 years and I guess you can call it a family tradition

Posted in Knitting, Hats, Cardigans, Children, Toys on Sep 11th, 2007