Craft Mommy

Boy, I made a major booboo on the sock I'm working on. After I finished the heel turn, instead of making the gusset, I started making the toe! Can you imagine what a strange looking sock! Talk about a short foot! I don't know where my mind was. I guess I was just out in la la land somewhere. I had already knitted an inch and a half of that before I realized what I was doing. I'm back on track though. The sock is looking the way it's supposed to instead of some sort of I don't know what...

I've almost finished the socks I was working on. Yes, there still the first pare from the ones I'm making with the new yarn. *sigh* There just seam to be so many things pulling me away from my knitting. Maybe once the kids start school again....... I know before most of my knitting time has always been away from the house. One of my favorite things to do was to show up to school a little early to pick the kids up and knit while I sat in the car. This summer though, every time I tried to find a quiet place to sit and knit, My sons would start fighting with each other and someone was screaming "MOMMY!" every few minutes.

Almost done with this pare though. There ankle socks, green with orange stripes. There cute, there funky and I just can't weight to wear them. :-)

Yea! My knit picks order came today! See my pretty sock yarn! I also got some size 1 sock needles, some brass ring stitch markers and some extra 24" cords for my interchangeable needles. I can't weight to get started on some new socks. :-)

My husband was trying to be helpful, by doing some cleaning. Well in the process he machine washed two pair of the hand knit hand wash wool socks I made. Before you try to put the blame on me, yes, I DID have them separated from the rest of the laundry, and yes I even took them away from him when I first caught him with them and told him "no, these are hand wash only. Leave them alone." HE STILL PUT THEM IN THE WASHING MACHING! He's like that. I don't know why, but when he goes into cleaning mode it doesn't matter how many times I ask him to leave something alone, once about 10 to 15 mins have passed, he TOTALY forgets. I know he doesn't do it on purpose, but it's really frustrating. I have to watch him CONSTANTLY! He's ruined a LOT of things because of it. When our kids were little, he used to ruin there electronic baby toys (the kind that light up and make sounds) all the time by putting them in the dish water to be cleaned after me repeatedly telling him not to, because they were not water proof and were supposed to be cleaned off with a damp cloth. Needless to say he was buying them new toys constantly, because every time he would do something like that, I would make him replace what he ruined. For the longest time I thought he wasn't listening to me or didn't care. I thought that by having to spend money to replace what he ruined would make him start to care, but that's not the case at all. He actually does care, but when he's working he becomes so focused on his task and develops such a one track mind nothing else registers to him. I still insist that he replaces anything he damages, because I feel it's only right, but I'm a lot more understanding and forgiving about it. Although when I discovered he had ruined my hand knit socks I started to cry. ( I put a lot of work into them) Since he's not a knitter, he can't exactly replace those.  You know what I mean? He did buy me enough wool sock yarn to make five pairs of socks to replace the two pair he ruined. The extra yarn is to make up for all the work I put into making the other socks. (I thought that was sweet. :-) So now I'm feeling much better and I'm excited for the pretty new sock yarn to get here. (I ordered it from knitpicks)

I just realized I never posted a picture of the row counter bracelet after I got it. It was a valentines day gift from my husband. It works like an abacus. The small beads represent one and the large beads represent ten. It works great to. :-)