For me!

Well, with the baby sweater done, and the gauge on the socks being completely discouraging, I had nothing prepared to work on except my cool stripey shawl.  I was pretty close about color changes in my last post.  There were fewer left than I thought, so now it is done!  I haven't blocked it yet, but I am wearing it as I am sitting in my chilly office at work.  Good stuff.  Here are pictures.  Smallest is modeling it for me.

So now I am knitting up a practice swatch for My Friend's sweater.  I'm testing the pattern as well as gauge.  I have to say, I don't really care for the pattern that much.  The main design stitch isn't coming out clearly and it's a big pain as well.  I've told My Friend about my discovery and we will take a look at it together and see what we think.  He is currently out of town visiting his girls.  He is a good dad.

Middle and The Boy are with my parents in Colorado this week, and Smallest is at camp so I am home all alone.  I am finally getting to some projects from when we moved into the house.  I painted my kitchen window.  The frame was new and gleaming white, but the window was not white.  So now it is.  Much better.  I'm painting some bookshelves we put in the girls' rooms not quite two years ago, and I'll be painting the trim in their rooms as well.  Fun times.  Lots of painting.  I need to paint the trim all around the house.  I need to replace the trim all around the house too.  Sigh.

At some point in the next couple of weeks, work will begin on re-doing my downstairs bathroom.  This is the one I share with The Boy.  It is not so nice now.  It will be very nice when we're done.  I am not doing the work, and that is okay with me.  It will get done a lot faster that way!

Margie

Still not counting hours.