The earthquake I didn’t feel

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ATK Blast!

This facility is only seven miles and two mountains from my house but I didn’t hear or feel a thing. 

Only two people were injured and were released from the hospital Monday evening.

I drove my car to work this morning.  The fog was so thick at my house that I could barely see  the house across the street.  By the time I got across the Potomac River I could see the fog was lifting.  Another three miles and there were blue skies and sunshine.  Should have ridden the motorcycle. 

But I did bring my knitting!  I fixed the eyelet and yarn over mishap last night and am ready to knit forward hoping to make major progress on this sweater today during lunch.  This meal consists of  protein bar and some delicious Chobani yogurt.  I heart Chobani yogurt.  Since I can scarf down this fantastic nourishment in about five minutes, I will have 55 minutes to knit!

Perfection, purses and a birthday wish

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During lunch today, I was telling someone (non-knitter) who works in our building about my sweater issue and the missing yarn over.  She asked if it was noticable and would I really have to rip it out.   The perfectionist in me thinks it would be noticable so I have decided to try to fix it before I resort to ripping out the last ten rows.

The little person I am knitting this for might be visiting us this weekend and I’d love to have enough of it done to see how it looks and fits.

I could work on this during my lunch hour however, the big skein of yarn doesn’t pack up real good to fit in the saddlebag on my motorcycle.  I could find a smaller purse for when I ride instead of this monstrosity I currently use.

How do you transprort your knitting?

Now where is that darn camera?  And why isn’t the battery charged?

Today is my Dad’s birthday.  I miss him.

To frog or not to frog

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Last night I discovered I forgot a yarn over on the sweater I was knitting.  eight rows back.  And I have a few misplaced eyelets.  Do I frog it all to the offending missed yo or do I try to fix it?  I have one missed yo but three eyelets that are misplaced.

This is why I can’t drink wine and knit anything involving counting, yo’s and decreasing.

On another note, Mr. Aitch showed me some erosion around the concrete pad at our outside basement steps.  I’ve noticed this for years and mentioned it several times that we needed to do something to halt the erosion.  Did Iever get any reaction?  No.  But I reacted today and tried to slow the process with some hardware cloth and leftover pavers from the front sidewalk.  Temporary patch, for now.

As soon as I find my camera, I will post some pictures.

Promise.

One drawer down…

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I finished decluttering the drawer earlier today.  At this rate I should be dine with the entire house by 2015.  This drawer was truly a junk drawer and I thought it would be easy.  Basically most of what was in there needed to be tossed and shouldn’t have been in that drawer anyway.  Now I have to find a home for the “good” stuff.  The other drawer in the island was organized a year or two ago so it shouldn’t take too long to go through that one.

Knitting note: Two more rows completed on the sweater last night.  Mr. Aitch and I watched a movie and I couldn’t watch it and knit at the same time.  The eyelet pattern isn’t hard but along with k2tog and yarn overs, there were k2tog and ssk decreases for the raglan sleeves.  I’ve learned that if I can’t concentrate when decreasing, I have a lot of ripping  and reknitting to do.  I like to knit as much as the next person but I have a deadline with this sweater.   More knitting tonight.  The good thing is that decreasing makes the row go that much faster!