I haven’t been posting many in progress posts/pics, lately and really just need to be more in the habit of doing that.
Here is my Anouk in Progress. I am using cotton-ease and yes, it is kind of hunter orangish, but I think when I get the pockets with the other colors on it will tone it down a bit. Anyways, Halloween is right around the corner and this is a little pumpkinish.
I knitted up a newborn hat and booties for a friend who is having a baby in a few weeks. I posted pictures of it and the pattern for the newborn hatat the Fiber Freaks forum. I hope you check it out! (I know, that was shameless…) 
The booties were suppose to be newborn socks. However, something happened and the sock was too small, think doll size.
I decided to forget the socks and go for the Booties. I used the pattern at Bev’s Country Cottage. It is a pattern I highly recommend. You can knit up a pair of booties, quick!
This would also make an excellent beginners pattern as it is really just knitting and purling with some binding off and decreasing.
So, I knit up one bootie with some Blue Sky Alpaca that I won in a blog contest last year. I doubled up on the yarn as it called for worsted weight and the alpaca seemed much thinner. The first bootie was great. I knit the second one up pretty quick but this morning had problems seeming it.
That alpaca is some pretty strong yarn and as I was seaming the bootie (doesn’t that sound x-rated?) the yarn bounded up. So I pulled it kind of hard, thinking it would pull free, when instead it broke. Blah! Fearless (when I should have been afraid,) I got out my scissors and attempted to cut the yarn I was seaming with. When, lo and behold….yep, I did it. I cut the wrong yarn. It sucked. But you know what, these knit up so fast, I just shrugged it off and whipped up another one.
It looks sickening, doesn’t it? I think I am going to try and frog it and knit this into the second sock of the “doll socks” and give them to Madeleine for her dolls. She would absolutely love it and hey, why waste some good yarn?
That is the circumfrence of the bottom of the size 2 (toddler) swing tank top in this pattern. Now, I know it is a "swing" top, but doesn't 4 feet or 48 inches sound a tad giant for a toddler? It looks so huge on my needles. I know I will be decreasing, etc…it is just so big.
Weird.
On the home front, we are working on getting a hot tub. It is a nice one (6 person) and the best part is it is free. The problem you ask? Trying to find a group of guys who will go and get it for me. Then it will sit in my garage until we can get a 220 line put in the backyard and get something for it to sit on. Tony thinks we should build a small deck. We aren't home owners, just renters…but with my bad back, this hot tub is a blessing for me. I will know by Wednesday night if we get the tub. I keep hoping. I think of all of those mornings I wake up hurting so bad and all I will need to do is crawl downstairs and get in the hot tub.
I picture playgroups where the kids are playing on the swings and the moms are sitting in the hot tub…Okay, now that is just silly. Of course we would just make it a mom's night out.
