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The Ladies of the Stitch N’Bitch held a shower for Joyce, Jen ad Me last night and it was wonderful! I totally forgot to bring my camera so hopefully at some point today I’ll be able to link over to a few other blogs for their festive shots. I’m going to post pictures of the [...]

Ends have been sewn in and buttons have been added where applicable. Baby set Pattern: the hat and the booties (digressed from pattern and knit the cuff in 1×1 rib) Yarn: Apple Laine in Denim Placket Neck Sweater Pattern: Child’s Placket Neck Sweater from Last Minute Knitted Gifts (corrected version can be found here) Yarn: [...]

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Trying on a 1/2 knit sock over 9 month pregnant feet is a bad idea; a bunch of stitches will get dropped and you will realize just how fat your feet really are right now! After a short therapy session with Drs Ben And Jerry (Tortoise Soup for inquiring minds, although Vermonty Python is my [...]

However the other two skeins I bought are in full violation of the terms of my yarn diet and I’m quite alright with that. Personally I blame LimenViolet. I have been playing catchup with their pod casts and had an epiphany for some gifts while listening to the Yarn Pr*n segment of an episode this [...]

So still no baby even though the contraction fairy likes to waltz through the room every so often to point and laugh at me. My Dad and Brother in Law are most disappointed, they were quite looking forward to a new baby (and a boy at that!) by the weekend (they can be such old [...]

I have spent the better part of this morning listening to Geek. Farm. Life Podcast and now I’m jonseing for the Royal to open and to have a few sheep or goats of my own. Now that I’m having some rather filthy thoughts about the food they sell at the fair like the shaved roast [...]

Things have pretty much stalled out! I’m still getting the odd contraction but they are nothing like the ones I was having. It’s a wee bit frustrating especially after such a strong start but on the bright side we finished packing the hospital and Abi’s bags, got the infant seat out of storage and cleaned [...]

Yesterday afternoon I was sitting and knitting away on Emerald (have finished the body to the point where the arms get added on, am now knitting sleeve one) and listening to Lime and Violet when it suddenly dawned on me that the general sensation of crampyness that has been my companion for the past few [...]

Sweater weather is coming!!! I’m so excited and clearly psychic as I started to plan out my fall sweater knitting this past week. First is the Assymetrical Cardigan from Knitting Nature, (I have been drooling this particular one since I came across it on ravlery) next was the Imogen kit Chris bought me for my [...]