September 2011 Archives

Two of Kevin's college friends welcomed new babies into their families at the end of the Spring. Spring babies don't make for good immediate recipients of cute, little knits as they spend their first few months in the heat of summer (and neither baby lives in a cold summer climate). And of course, I was slow to think of a project. Hopefully, these sweaters and hats will keep the babies warm throughout the winter and even into the spring.

I actually made the hats last since I had one skein left of each color. The yarn is Knit Picks Swish Worsted. It is very soft and machine washable. The hat pattern is the Heartbreakingly Cute Pilot Cap. I found the pattern in the first Mason Dixon book. The pattern is written for Koigu or a similar light weight yarn. I used the pattern schematics to modify it for a worsted weight yarn. I hope it fits!! I didn't include the under the chin straps... I hope it will stay on their heads!

The sweaters are the Harvey Kimono pattern from Natural Knits for Babies and Moms. I made the 12 month size so that hopefully if my gauge was a little off it will still fit them for a while. I thought it might be a good layering piece and the sleeves can always be rolled up.

Now that these are finished, I can go back to knitting Liesl. I'll try to get a picture of her soon. She's still just a long blob... haven't even made it to the armholes, although I did finish the pockets. Maybe she'll be finished by the Spring.

The sound effect in my head as I get hypnotized by this is: mmer-ow mmer-ow mmer-ow mmer-ow mmer-ow mmer-ow mmer-ow mmer-ow mmer-ow mmer-ow mmer-ow mmer-ow mmer-ow mmer-ow mmer-ow mmer-ow mmer-ow mmer-ow mmer-ow.....................................

As I was sitting at the computer writing up my workout entry, I'm hearing music drift in through the windows. Unlike usual, which is some meathead in a car with a loudener blasting some horrible hip-hop, this is a nice light quiet flow of Top 40s.

At first I thought I was just singing "celebrate good times, come on!" in my head. Then I thought, why am is this song in my head right now? I soon realized it was coming in from the window. Now there's a little Adele coming in. I'm not sure if it's from my downstairs neighbor's window or the guys doing construction across the street. Neither seem the type for soft rock, pop hits.

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My students yesterday begged for us to have class outside today. I agreed on the two conditions that 1) we meet in the classroom and decide together that the weather is nice enough for sitting outside (and see that there's an opening on the quad) and 2) that they promise to pay attention and not get distracted. I'm more worried about number 2 and number 1.

Truthfully, I'm most worried about what to wear to school today that I could sit outside on the grass in. I need to still look somewhat professional, but I don't want to get all grass stained, and it has to be clothes that can sit comfortably on the ground in so can actually teach. I'll probably go with jeans... Shoes are also an issue. Definitely no heels. Can't wear flip flops. Sneakers would be ideal, but I generally try to avoid wearing sneakers to work... but my jeans are all too long and flats can be annoying. Ugh!! I can't tell the class "Sorry, we can't have class outside like I promised because my wardrobe doesn't work for sitting on the grass in a professional way." I wish the school would install more benches....