so I finished my sister’s hat the day after I posted last. and I’ve decided I want it. good thing there’s plenty of yarn leftover to make one for myself. ;)

I bought one of those Nifty Knitter dealies - you know the rings so that you can do ‘cheater knitting’. because someone on another forum posted her legwarmer that she made on them, and well, they were cute. and my legwarmers are destined to never be finished otherwise (seemingly). anywho, so I played with it and made a tiny hat on the tiny ring. well, that hat was so lacy. grr. (and when pulled just right, it kind of took on a bell-like shape. dh said so too, without me commenting on it.) so I ripped that out - I might try again doubling the yarn (I thought I used worsted…). so yeah, I’m torn on them. I really don’t want to have to double yarn or buy the thick chunky yarns just to use on them. we’ll give it a bit of a longer trial run, I guess.

other than that, the knitting has kind of slowed a bit. I started a swatch for the AAY purchase (it’s Bouton d’Or of some sort), but haven’t gotten much further than that. that and I got sick last weekend (and have been all week).

I figure I’ll have plenty of knitting time next weekend - I have a dance competition and my dance school has hired a bus to take us down to it - so plenty of knitting time. now, to plan the bus knitting… (oh, and I should probably practice my dances too, hey?)

well, the move went well enough, though I’m still mostly unpacked. we pulled up the floor in the living room only to discover that the floor is in need of help. (there’s hardwood under a subfloor. the first section we pulled up that was on the edge looked great. the middle - well, it looks like they overdid the sanding to the point that there are wafer-thin boards and a big hole. not sure what the story behind all that is, but…). the room that’s destined to be my office had the carpeting ripped up as well - so now I have linoleum with pits of foam glued to it. ugh. I really don’t want to get all unpacked til I have a ‘real’ floor, but who knows how long that’ll be.

so the yarn is still in boxes (labeled, so I can find it later.) the WIPs are in a crate so I could find them easily. and there is slow progress.

I’ve made it further into the Tychus hat for my BIL. I’m somewhere in the 3rd wedge - woohoo, about half-finished. I’ve also been working on my sister’s wooly-bear hat - started swatching it last week, actually CO on Friday night, and knit when I wasn’t being made to drive on the way down to see family. I just finished the orange stripe on the bus-ride to work this AM, so hopefully the hat will be done soon. that makes 2 xmas hats that weren’t quite finished in time. in other news, I finished another hat. just before we left for the weekend. this would be the ‘hat for me’ which ended up being way too big on me (I dind’t really bother with a swatch). turns out that it fits mom wonderfully (cuz she, in her words, doesn’t wear hats the way everyone else does.).

so, with ‘my’ hat being given to a new owner, I bought some yarn while checking out All About Yarn in Coon Rapids last week. nice store, which is good, since I think it’s the closest to me now (unless Maple Grove is, but we drive thru CR more than MG so I’ll probably end up there more often). what’d I buy? 3 balls of something that was on sale. I forget what it’s called. but that hat will probably be my next project.

oh, so we visited family over New Year’s weekend. mom loved ‘my’ hat. and the kids loved theirs. Amelia’s is a little big, but Lilin’s & Eli’s fit nicely (which means they’ll outgrow them instantly, I’m sure). I forgot to get a picture of the kids in their hats - maybe my sister will take and send me a pic soon (hint hint)