This seems familiar?

 So I've been working away on the vest for Smallest.  I had a bout of insomnia this weekend and decided to spend the awake time knitting. I was checking the pattern to see when I should start decreases for the shaping and discovered that I was supposed to cast on 131 stitches, not 119.  Oops!  I know there's an old post about knitting, unknitting, and re-knitting, and I was thinking about that as I undid the meager progress I had made.  I think I was only about four repeats in, so it wasn't a terrible loss, and much better to find out earlier than later!  Here's where I was before, and here's where I am now.

It's a seminar day today, so I sit in my office and monitor the Zoom (because part of our Center is in Boston) and get to do whatever I want for an hour.  Sometimes I am productive and send emails and do worky things, but to day I think it's a knitting day!

My foot is feeling much better, so I think it was just a deep bruise.

I started cutting the fabric for the quilt.  I actually read the directions and there's an easier way to make the "geese" than cutting lots of triangles!  You piece them as rectangles and then trim them afterwards.  Who knew!  I've gone through the blue and yellow fabrics, I did decided to omit two gingham fabrics because they were really thin and easy to see through.

Ginny is helping me keep track of how much to cut.

Sunday is Jeff's 60th birthday.  He is very grumpy about it.  I don't recall if I've mentioned that before or not.  We're having dinner with friends on Saturday night, Sunday will be just us at home.  

I don't know a lot more?  I forgot that I had this fun pattern that I wanted to make for Middle.  Maybe I'll make it after Christmas.  Speaking of Christmas and Grumpy Jeff, he's taking time off this fall, and I think he's got the week between Christmas and New Year's off!  This is exciting for me because I get that week off every year and it's always a bummer that he has to go work.  This year should be lots of fun!  I suspect there may be children home as well to play with that week.  Very exciting.

This is the Hoodola - doesn't it look great for the cold?

Seminar is over!  I did two patter repeats on the vest.  I have a meeting tonight at 6:30, so I'll have some time between work and the meeting to work some more.

Margie