Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

Good morning and Happy Family Day! Today is also the start of Tim Horton's annual Roll up the Rim to Win. If you're anything like me you rolled the r's in roll and rim. I don't drink Timmies coffee often, but when I do and it's Roll up the Rim time it's very likely I will win a donut (which I won't eat).

Dozer says "yawn, stretch"
A Photo A Day #47

So I won! I finished my Ravellenic Winter Games knit, ahead of schedule. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy I got it finished, but I'm sort of disappointed too, because now I feel kind of naked and need to find a new project to cast on ... naked and idle. Never a good thing for a knitter.

It's finished!
A Photo A Day #48

I used four skeins of Wandering Cat Yarns Big Cat. The colour is a custom order called Sprout. The pictures don't do the colour justice. Maybe later I will get ambitious and go outside (in the freezing cold - 16C temps) to see if I can get a better picture of the colour.

The big picture. :)

Finished dimensions are 38" x 30" so it's a really good sized blanket. The pattern called for 158 stitches to be cast on and to use 5mm needles, but I cast on 122 stitches and used 5.5mm needles. I think the 5.5mm needles worked well with the yarn. I love how it turned out. There were variations in the skeins, two skiens were brighter and two were slightly darker. I started with the brighter one, did two darker ones and ended with the final brighter one. It gives it sort of a gradual look. I had thought about switching skiens every two rows to make it blend better but, honestly, couldn't be bothered. The difference in the yarns is so slight.

Waffle Blanket - Ta Da!

I think I may have to make another one of these ... perhaps a larger one for myself. I'm thinking 8 skeins of Big Cat would do it ... Hmmm.  Maybe a colour graduation from cream to dark blue or oooh crimson and back to cream again.  Hmmm.

Try Try Again

If at first you don't succeed, try try again.

Right?

I'm going to knock wood on this one, because it's still early.

All three of my kids went to school today and all three were happy and healthy when they left the house. I'm feeling hopeful we can get through an entire school day without one of them coming down with some sort of illness that paralyses my day.

KNOCK WOOD.

I'm finally sitting down for some quiet time after a morning of busy busy busy. I headed out for groceries, dog food, yarn (yay!) and got home around 11:45am and put everything away, did some housework, ate some lunch and now ... rest ... and there will be coffee and knitting too.

This is what cup holders are really for.
A Photo A Day #17

Lily requested a new hat, the same as her old one, but a different colour. She is very picky about texture so I picked up some Bernat Satin for her. I picked a couple colours I though she'd like ... she might pick both. I'll keep you posted.

Wednesday and Thursday a couple of my knits hit the blocking board. Have I ever mentioned how much I hate blocking? Yes, lace is magic and all that jazz, but bleh, blocking.

Scarf With No Name
Wandering Cat Yarns Solo Cat: Lagoon

The scarf is the same yarn I'm using for Pogona Too. It's such a lovely colourway. I really do enjoy those blues and greens. Though it looks so much different in each pattern. You'll have to take my word on it because I don't have any pictures of Pogona Too right now. :) I do have my other (freshly blocked) Pogona though. Yay!

Pogona
Wandering Cat Yarns Alley Cat Sock
Firestarter

My mail was exciting today ... More yarn! YAY!

Wandering Cat Yarns ... AWESOME!

The yarn on the left is for a pair of Reading Mitts. The yarn on the right is for a super secret project for a super special person. Lucky them. ;)

While my day is still quiet I'm going to keep knocking wood until it's 3:15pm and time to get my kids from school. :) 

Cheers!