Its all true, the boogie girl is real, and you've found her. She knits, sews, spins, does pottery and writes it all down in this blog.
Sunday, January 04, 2004
Feline Pie?? Why would I want to eat Feline pie? What's in it?
Um, Dad that's Key Lime pie. No felines were harmed in the baking of this pie.My Dad gave me a huge compliment yesterday, he likes my hair. Ok, may not seem like much but from this traditional man to admit that he likes his 30 yr old daughter's mohawk is definitely one for the books. Of course now I'm wondering if he's just trying to butter me up for more socks. It worked. Here's what is going to be his socks
That is twinkletoe yarn from Over the Rainbow Yarns on Ebay I have a bunch of her sock yarn, it works up nice and the colors are fabulous. Of course I may decide to just make a quick pair out of woolease for dad and wait on the twinkletoes a bit longer. I'm not sure I can be happy working on 2 pairs of socks in size 1 toothpicks. I also cast on for mom's socks and since she paid for her material I feel obligation to get that done, but she hates my hair so maybe I'll set hers aside.
I put up the pattern to Moira's sock you can see it here or on the side over there. 
I'm tired of working on Sonnet. I want it done but I feel like I'm at a block. Its an ok sweater but I really want my skull sweater. I'm not sure the sonnet is really "me". I am going to try and force myself to finish it this week. I have the yarn for the S&B skull sweater sitting in my new large yarn bag.
As far as getting stuff done. I had a hard time doing things when my daughter was little and wanted my attention. I cannot get anything done when I babysit either as then I have a child to play with. My daughter is at a point right now where she is stretching her independance and doesn't want to play with me. She wants me to talk to her but necessarily play with her. So I use that time to knit. I try to keep regular work/business hours for my business and I just give her busy work and make her feel like she is helping me. She grew up "working" so its not a big deal for her most of the time. I really think my key to getting anything done is that I carry it with me everywhere. Many times my knitting just sits patiently (sometimes quietly) next to me and other times I get quite a bit done. My family has gotten used to seeing my knitting bag attached to me at all times.
So now I'm off to tackle sonnet again. I hate loosing interest ina project.