I mean the weather, not my age. This morning was delightfully sunny and cool, and although it will go up to the mid 60s by afternoon, I hope this means Fall is on it’s way.

I abandoned the Latifa for the weekend and picked up some Bernat Cotton that was in my closet and started a cute, simple little sweater from the Phildar Layette book I picked up. The yarn I’m using is a lot thicker and the needles 2 sizes bigger than the pattern calls for, so I have to adjust for size. I’m using less stitches than the 0-3 month size but following the measurements for 6 months. Hopefully it will come out OK. This is for a friend who had a baby a couple of weeks ago. I’ll hopefully spit this one out in a big hurry and then go back to my scarf. So far this weekend I did the back and about 4 inches of one of the front panels.

Well, back to a slow boring Tuesday.

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Well, here is a scan of what I have done on the Latifa scarf so far. This is a fun project, quick, and it will look so CUTE with this pink fall coat I have, that is, if we ever get Fall. It’s still so warm every day. I hope to work on this a lot this weekend and not let freelance work take over. I have to learn to budget my work time better.

In the quest for some good baby patterns and realizing I have all these babies surrounding me and not a lot of knitting choices, I joined the Crafters Choice club and ordered 4 books (ok, they weren’t all baby) and also got a Phildar layette book since Becky is always making the nicest stuff from them. I love that book! A lot of very cute choices. When I am going to find all the time (and money) to make all this stuff?

Exhausted after a night of hearing friends play music - whatever happened to the girl that could stay out till 5 a.m. the next morning every night? Now if a show ends at 1:30 a.m. I think, WOW, it’s so late. I hate this aging stuff. I realized last night when one of the guys on stage asked the crowd if they know who Pablo Cruise was, that I was one of the very few who did. Most of the crowd were not born yet or were in diapers when those guys ruled the airwaves. How did I get so old? Should I be insulted the bouncer didn’t ask for *my* ID?

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I just got caught in a total downpour. I thought the hurricane was supposed to be LAST week. Anyway, my shoes are so wet I had to take them off and my pants are soaked up to my thighs. I don’t think the rest of the office will appreciate if I take THOSE off.

Well, Latifa is coming along nicely. I received the oatmeal color a couple of days later than the other colors so to fill time I started doing the ruffles between the color blocks I already had and I decided this is a good way to go — I will just alternate knitting the body with adding ruffles to break it up. I will take a photo or scan the scarf soon.

Sunday was the Knit Out in NYC but I wasn’t all that impressed with last year’s so I just passed through quickly while they were setting up early, and grabbed a few patterns. Then later I stopped by again just to say hello to my friend Debbie and see her new book which should be on the shelves in a couple of weeks. The book looks GREAT and will surely get some new people into knitting.

Well, time to dry off and get some more knitting done.

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Yes, I got almost all the yarn for Latifa yesterday. Which of course means I’ve started it already. Although half the day seemed to go to winding hanks. I need a ball winder. Why on earth do they still sell yarn this way with all the technology to actually wind the things into neat little rolling packages? It’s a travesty.

The Silke-Tweed is lovely in color and appearance but is actually much courser in feel than I expected. It’s more like a silk/linen than silk/wool if you ask me. I don’t think this will be a particularly WARM scarf, but it will be lovely to look at.


Still waiting on one color which will hopefully arrive today since my movie plans got cancelled tonight and I will probably stay in and knit. Of course I can go myself or ask someone else to go out, but hey, I have a scarf to knit.

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