Switching things up!

 And now for something completely different!

I am so impressed with the fancy penguin and all the tiny things you're making!  The bicycle man makes me think of Monty Python.

This weekend I had a big to-do list and I got almost everything done!  So satisfying.  Jeff was busy tiling our fireplace so I was free to do whatever I wanted.

One of the things was to start on the quilt for Smallest's ballroom coach and his wife's baby.  The baby was born way early - 27 weeks? - and she just came home from the NICU a couple of weeks ago, close to her original Nov 4 due date.  I cut most of the pieces a while ago (did I post that?) and have been ignoring them, thinking this was going to be complicated.

Well I was very wrong.  This is an easy-to-piece Wild Goose Chase.  I sewed together the first two pieces, trimmed and ironed them all on Saturday and Sunday.  Then last night I sewed on the third piece.  It took me an hour and a half to sew on all the third pieces last night.  Tonight I will trim and iron them, and then it will be time to assemble the geese!  Very satisfying.  There will be sashing between the strips of geese, and then a border.  I think I didn't buy the backing yet?  I'll have to go look at what I bought.  Perhaps I can finish piecing it before the weekend?  We still have some batting the right size, so now I'm having delusions of quilting it before Thanksgiving?  I'll have to think about the pattern.

This was almost halfway through piecing the first two pieces

Post-piecing

Trimming finished!

Submit to my will!

Ready for second piecing.

Pieced, ready to trim and press.

Other than that, I've split the vest top for the shoulders.  I've realized that I've got too many stitches on one side, but I'll get that fixed.  I was taking a training class at work learning about financial workings and I have been knitting in class.  We finished this week, so now no more knitting time then.  Boo.

This is not the current progress.

I finished the toe of the second sock and realized that I didn't do it the same way as the first toe.  I think I'll keep the second one unfinished and let Middle try them on and see how they fit.  Maybe the first will be too tight?

I had un-knit Sweater Attempt #1 and I had given it a bath a couple of weeks ago to help it relax and be smooth again.  I also wound that all up over the weekend, so now it's back in nice balls ready to be knit again!

I am hoping to not work a lot next week.  The Boy comes home on Saturday, then a change of plans for everyone else.  Jeff's girls will come down together on Tuesday (we think) and leave the following Tuesday (we think?), and then Middle and Beau arrive on Wednesday morning and leave on Tuesday.  We will be full of fun!  I have been cleaning many things in preparation, but we need to do a big clean because Jeff's demolition of the old fireplace tile made a lot of dust.  Bleah.

That's all I know, I think?  Here are two bonus pictures for you.  Ginny the cat likes to sleep on Smallest's bed currently, and then it's Smallest, dancing!

Margie

This one is Ginny.