I meant well. I ordered the yarn months ago--I even started a sleeve with plenty of time. Then, I just got distracted and my holiday knitting has turned into a massive issue. I really only have one thing to knit--a sweater for my husband. I have a sleeve (mostly) done--really, it just needs the sleeve cap. But the body, its only oh...five inches or so. I think I'll get it done since I still have several days to go before it becomes crisis time but I am easily distracted with other knitting--especially small projects.

Like the ester williams hat. Its such a cute hat. its been on the back burner for a couple of weeks while I've been knitting baby sweaters (when I should have been working diligently on my husbands lovely ribbed sweater).

I apologize for the true crappiness of this photo. In reality, the hat is a lovely shade of plum. My excuse--its sleeting and freezing cold and dark outside. You're lucky I even went out there to take one. I'll post a better one when I get it done...

Its a great little hat and I'm not that far from the finish line--I'm just rows away from beginning the shaping at the crown and it will just get faster and faster every row, right?

PS:
Goodness, I am such an idiot sometimes. It just took me a good 20 minutes to get this picture uploaded. You know why? Because while it is good that I had the cord plugged in to the camera, it also really helps--in fact, its quite crucial--that you plug it in to the computer as well. erg....

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1. I am a big ball of snot. I really despise being sick like this--I have the congestion, the sneezing and the achyness of a cold as well as the nausea and achiness of pregnancy. To make it worse--my most favorite thing for when I have a cold is my vicks vaporizer and its not working. I almost cried... Not exactly how I wanted to spend my holiday (I'm a federal employee, we get *all* the holidays off--including Veteran's Day) but thats ok. My husband is at work today but he got up early and made the emergency run to the grocery store for the only thing that sounded appealing--baked potatoes and spicy doritos.

2. I am at a loss as to what to do about my harry potter sweater. I've finished a back and a sleeve but still haven't made up my mind as to what to do about the front. So the choices are:

cardigan or pullover
H or R or M
Which color for the letter? Choices I'm doing the body in billberry and the colors I have for the letter are herb and pickle. They are both greeny type colors but I'm just not in love with either of them. Maybe I just need to break down and knit a miniswatch with each of them against the billberry.

3. I'm getting a heck of a lot of spam comments. Anybody have any suggestions to get rid of them and prevent more from happening? My login screen says something like 1450 comments and I know most of them are complete spam. blah...I hate comment spam. Do people really think that if I were in the market for black market drugs I would buy them from unsolicited comment spam?

At least it is almost the weekend and my husband will be home to dote upon me soon.

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think that song, but with different words. More like:

they'll inject dye into you, tomorrow...bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow,
you'll have some cramps.

just thinking about tomorrow...

yikes. can we say I'm a little freaked out about the HSG tomorrow? I've heard from several people it should hurt that bad but I'm still working myself into a tizzy. I started the antibiotics for it this morning and started barfing as soon as I got to work. Nothing like those late 70's government orange bathroom stalls to help the process along though. So, all in all, tomorrows going to be a big day: injection class at 10, Hubbie's drop off at 1 then must be at radiology for HSG by 1:15. oh--and insert "take several painkillers" at various points throughout the day.

I came home early and am going to spend the rest of the day vegging out on the couch finishing up a sock.

Speaking of knitting--here are the fiber trends clogs I finished over the weekend as well as the sleeve of the knew rogue

I must say, I really really really love these clogs. I made them with brown sheep bulky (single strand instead of the double strand of worsted called for in the pattern) in periwinkle and charcoal. I usually wear a 6 1/2 to 7, so I made the medium but next time, I'll make the small since they are still a tad big. The pattern was great although, because of the decrease rows, its certainly not mindless knitting. Time to complete: about 7 hours plus felting and drying time. (it took at least three cycles and I spun them dry and wore them while they were damp)

I like this rogue much better than the previous attempt (with knitpicks alpaca silk). I liked the previous yarn, it just wasnt right for rogue. This (peace fleece in antarctic) is much much better although it sure does make a stiff fabric. The swatches softened with washing though, so I think its going to be fan-tastic, baby.

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