Catching Up

This time of year is always busy for us here but this year we have been busier than usual. This past week-end was Homecoming for MD so there was a parade, and football game and then the big dance. I was really busy getting things ready. After that there was a surprise birthday party and sleep-over for a friend of MD and then yesterday was her apprenticeship so I was down in the city with her for the day. Sometimes I feel like I am living my life through her's! Because of all the teen-age activity going on I am undergoing knitting withdrawal. I need to knit more!. I have about 10 rows of the peplum on Silver Belle done and I continue to knit on TOOMA's jacket. I have some green that I am going to line his pockets with to make it pretty. I got my Vogue knitting yesterday and fell in love with this sweater. I ordered the pattern from Angel Yarns in the UK.

I have to find more time to knit! I also want to get Vogue's new sock knitting book which has some neat patterns in it. Has anyone out there tried any of the patterns? I am so far behind in blogdom I have no idea what is going on anymore. Right now I must go buy some food. We have been living on sandwiches. In the next week or so I hope to catch up on everything!

Toys

I joined a new KAL last week, the Silver Belle KAL. I bought the yarn for it back in August but hadn't gotten a chance to start knitting. I chanced upon the KAL when I was visiting Liz's blog (Hi Liz). Well it was a great excuse to start a new project, so off I went. Last night I took a good look at my knitting and realized I had set the darn thing up wrong. 428 stitches down the drain! So I am ripping Silver Belle out to start over. Instead of knitting pics, here are some new toys. A pink hippo to store some things in and some needle tubes for my beloved DP's.
This week is MD's homecoming so I will be pretty busy the rest of the week. We tend to leave everything to the last minute. No point in saying I will get anything done cause I know I won't. Maybe next week!