Oct 13 2008
big brother is watching…
… well not in a creepy invasive way. ;)
Moments like these (priceless, according to the Mastercard commercials) make my world go round. Given my two boys are 9 years apart in age, I sometimes feel like I am in a sort of second parenthood with the elder being fairly self-sufficient and and younger just starting out.
There are benefits, however, with Ben taking on more a mentoring role to his little brother, not always available to siblings closer in age.
So far, hockey is a hit with Sam. Once he got used to the mouth-guard and realized he had to learn to skate more efficiently before he could whip across the ice to score in the net at the other end of the rink, things went fairly well. (Yay. This is not always black and white with Sam who is being assessed for ASD and has quite a noisy personality about things).
I still have fantasy ideas that I will actually be able to knit at hockey games (I obviously haven’t learned anything from last season). We will see.
It has been a busy fall around here (I feel like an echo of myself, sometimes - it is ALWAYS busy around here, nevermind the season). MrBear had some relatively unexpected surgery last month which kind of threw a wrench in things but it went very well in the end. School started, hockey started and it has just been generally a lot of activity. Sam turned 4. I totally gutted and re-organized the office. I had a booth a the KW Knitters Fair which was a blast but exhausting to get ready for - being the dyer of several hundred skeins/bumps for a one-day event takes a lot of planning and doing. My stock was late arriving, too, which made it a little more intense than expected. It was a very good day, however, and a lot of fun.
And, I do have some FOs, which, given the sheer number of UFOs I discovered floating around the office when I re-organized (oh, what a difference cubed shelving makes in a knitting studio, yippee), I am awfully excited to have (the UFOs always outnumber FOs, but I always hope, against hope eternal? to narrow the gap) FOs!
These were for the August sock club. I love them. Seriously. The arches are knit at the same time as the heel flap with no gusset stitches to pick up. As a result they fit more snugly along the bottom of the foot and hug the arches.
And, the jumbled bit of lace from my last blog post turned into this:
I seriously need to update the shop in general, however. Hopefully over the next few weeks… in the works: new fibre and a couple of new clubs will be posted for ‘09 very shortly.
Mercury retrograde notwithstanding (two more days… good grief, it isn’t over yet?) I will have more new designs shortly, as well (as I take a deep breath and cast on yet AGAIN - 5th time, I think - I just keep repeating, there is more to be learned the nth time around which you missed the last time….). Keeping the mercury retrograde in mind it should be quite an interesting election tomorrow with a few unexpected somethings arising… I guess it’s all subjective. I am also interested to see exactly what comes out of all this economic upheaval and reality-checking (gee, is there any uncredited cash, I mean, good old clear un-owed-to-anyone cash left on the planet? I wonder…) given the timing. Nothing is as it seems is the frame of mind for mercury retrograde periods and it has been exceptionally enlightening lately.
And if pmharper (following me on Twitter, no idea why) buys yarn from me, I shall be really elightened. :P
Happy knitting
