Lost in translation

I’ve been super busy and I’m heading to NY early Saturday am with my son to visit with my brother. Here is the progress on my super comfy, grey boyfriend sweater.

Oh and I start my awesome new job on Monday at 1pm. Will post more

And she said: “Let there be gifts”

Since I am no longer knitting my super awesome (not!) Mothers Day gift sweater for my mama, I bought her gift online today.  CHECK.  Now, I just have to finish her wool cabled purse that I started last May (via plane en route to Atlantis in the Bahamas) and it is still a WIP  ugh.  I just HATE this bag.  I don’t like the wool with a rattan wrapped handle and I don’t like that she wants this for the summer.  It’s just all wrong.  Anyway, I just have to sew the handle on and finish up the lining on the top of the bag.  (You can see my cable mistake in my braid.  Stupid me.  But I’m not undoing it all.  My mom will appreciate it.  Besides, I made this a year ago)

I also just purchased my Mother in Law’s gift for Mothers Day today online as well.  CHECK.  

Today seems to be the day when I pay my bills.  I also have a gazillion bills that came in that are close to late or late from when my son was rushed to the hospital for his asthma in March.  Damnit, I thought insurance was supposed to cover those bills.  I probably have close to $1000 in medical bills to pay right now…between my sons hospital visit and my specialist appointments and my sons doctor visits.  Sometimes, we just can afford to get sick.  Stupid money, it just grows on trees right?

I am also applying to two new jobs.  Very exciting time for me right now.  

A (purl) bump in the road

Okay, my last short post about starting my sweater didn’t end up posting correctly. Bummer.

Well I was so mentally exhausted from focusing so much on knitting my moms sweater and the my cousins socks that I just walked away and started on my own grey Pima cotton very pink.com sweater. I ordered and received the knit picks “comfy sport” Pima cotton yarn in mid march and its just been sitting, collecting dust. After a few hiccups with casting on (namely, casting on on a 32″ cable and I had to go buy a 24″ cable. Then, it stretched my cast on row soooo fAr to knit in the round, that I frogged it again and started on 16″ cable this time. That did the trick), we are well on our way through all of the raglan increases.

While waiting to hit up my LYS I started on some funky placemats for our table for the summer. Well, like everything else lately, I frogged it all bc I didn’t like the pattern at all! I think I am going to start again just using a seed stitch. This color way is maybe a little too eclectic for my taste. It was in my cotton stash drawer, so I figured what the hell.