Yarn Along

A post of my current read and what is cast on my needles ~ Inspired by Ginny over at {Small Things}

I finished the gloves... and on time to! *grin*

I spent the last night before his birthday knitting like crazy to finish them and he just loves them :) They are so nice and thick with the wool and they fit fairly well to. They're a little bit big but he's growing so quickly that they'll be perfect soon enough :)

So now I'm currently without a knitting project :(

I can't decide what to make next! Someone was knitting up a great snake which would be perfect for my little guy, then there were those adorable little gnomes and then of course there is always the adorable Milo vest that everyone is making *grin*.

Having a few days after finishing the gloves did give me enough time to finish my book, Room by Emma Donoghue. I devoured it in two days! It was such a riveting book of the kidnapping of a young girl at the age of 19 and the son she gave birth to while living in captivity in an 11x11 room. Dark but oh so good!

I apologize to everyone that left comments last week and I haven't had a chance to get back to you :( We just had an insanely crazy week and I've been thinking of each of you and am going to do my darndest to make it to all of you this time!! Plus I need to scope out all your projects and books so I can figure out what to knit next *grin*.

Hugs,
Rosina

Happy 12th Birthday

Today we celebrated my oldest son's 12th birthday.

Where have all the years gone?! I can't believe my baby is twelve :) Actually his birthday is officially tomorrow at 10:50 pm but his friend could only come over today for a little party so we whooped it up this afternoon and tomorrow we'll have a nice quiet family dinner with my parents.

Remember those gloves I was knitting? I got them finished! I stayed up till 2 am last night knitting like a mad woman to finish off the last 4 fingers and I'm so glad I did.



They fit him perfectly and I'm so happy I could make them for him since they were a special birthday request :)

He's also crazy about the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books so when I happened to see this great t-shirt at the bookstore I just had to get it for him. It is so neat! He gets to draw in with a special fabric marker any funny joke or picture that he wants to complete the thought bubble *grin*.

His friends gave him this neat drawing book...

and inside was one of those little wooden models that you can pose any way you want to help him learn to draw bodies. He's crazy about drawing and painting so I'd say he got everything he could have wanted for his birthday. Lucky boy!

Now I'm going to rest :) The last couple of days have been exhausting and the super late night last night has left me in need of some extra sleep.... I must be getting old! LOL. I've already prepared some of the food for tomorrow's dinner to cut down on the workload and I think if I'm lucky I'll have some free time tomorrow to catch up on some mama projects :)

Enjoy your weekend!

Hugs,
Rosina

Yarn Along

A post of my current read and what is cast on my needles ~ Inspired by Ginny over at {Small Things}

One glove down... one more to go!

This knitting thing is going better than I could have ever hoped now that I've completed one glove with the correct number of fingers *grin*. I'm just a little worried that I might not finish in time for his birthday this weekend!

I'm loving the pattern that I'm using as it is so straight forward. Nothing to complicated except for casting on a few stitches in the middle of your knitting but I found the handy little video on youtube that I've shared below showing me how to add the stitches and it is really simple :)

Now if only I could master how to read and knit all at the same time like some of you guys do! I'm reading Don't Make Me Count To Three by Ginger Plowman and loving it. So far it's on disciplining your children by getting to the matter of what's really going on in their heart along with using the scriptures and I'm learning so much from it :) I just need to squeeze in a little more reading time LOL.

Can't wait to see what you are all up to this week and last week Jen at S/V Mari Hal-o-Jen shared her Ravelry name and I thought it was a great idea to find yarn along friends and see what other things everyone is knitting or wanting to knit. So if you would like to be my ravelry buddy I'm RosyPosyy *grin*.

Hugs,
Rosina

Yarn Along

A post of my current read and what is cast on my needles ~ Inspired by Ginny over at {Small Things}



The days since last week's yarn along seem to have just flown by and I really don't have a whole lot of knitting to show for them *grin*. I finally got into the city to the yarn shop and picked up some of this lovely brown wool by Smart Superwash for the gloves I'm making for my son's birthday :) I was looking for something that would wear and wash up well while still being wool and this was what they suggested and I have decided to go with the vintage Red Cross pattern for Gloves for Service Men.

I thought it was really cool to be knitting something that they would have made for all those men years ago and I think he'll find that really interesting to :) I think I'm going to need longer double pointed needles though as the stitches are just barely staying on as I go round and round and I've got to pay careful attention so that I don't accidentally push a needle out to far and drop a stitch or two when I'm not looking. Other than that so far the pattern is easy to follow and knitting up quickly. I just need to find more time! I don't even have a book to share this week :( I think it's all the baking I've been doing LOL. To much time with my nose in the cookbooks.

Can't wait to see what you all are knitting this week!

Hugs,
Rosina