Umm, I Don't Know a Good Title For Tonight!

Hey Ya'll!
Well guess what...this past weekend the weather here in Southern Ontario was super!! I spent some time pottering in my garden, I planted some calla lily bulbs and some fresia bulbs, hoping that it won't be too long until they start poping thru! Right now though I am on squirrel watch - I can just see our little furry neighbours running across my porch with them in their mouths, only to bury them in the front garden instead of leaving them in the back!!
I went for a great walk with my son today, for the shopping, instead of taking the car, it was a perfect walking day, and was nice and quiet. I love these days, I am not one for the extreme humidity, it just makes me feel yuk!
I started a pattern for my future nephew, I have tried to link it but it doesn't work! If you go to this website, you can search "Baby Baseball Tee" to find it - I actually am creating it out of Sugar N' Creme - and before you ask, no, I didn't get it here, we are only about 40 mins from the US border, so it came from Micheals over there. I went crazy buying this stuff last year, thinking I would get the hang of the Mason-Dixon Warshcloths easily -- but I have still not been able to make one correctly yet!
As I mentioned, my sock is finished, now I need to start a new pair! I have some lovely sock yarn that I have purchased over the past few months, now I just want to use it! I will post a pic of the final result next time.
Received my final package from my Knitting Secret Sister today, it contained some Lopi, tea, keychain, some Bernat Cotton, and a little notebook, thanks Secret Sister!
Now I'll dash, as I am sitting here in near darkness, and the tea bags are calling me!!
Until next time....

Miserable!!

Ok, so it has been a while since I last posted anything, and here is the main reason:
-it's miserable weather!!!
As many of you are probably nodding your head in agreement if you live in North America, our weather just truly sucks at the moment, so I feel very un-creative!!
Sockie is coming along -- if I would just stop dropping stitches...it actually really looks like crap...BUT I will perciver and finish it!! Then will post a finished pic.
Shout-out to Renee!! You know who you are -- and for those who don't she is my sock knitting instructor, who I think I have driven to drink after each session in the past few weeks!!! "Renee, I think I dropped a stitch -- uhhh, about 40 rows ago!", "Renee, what the hell have I done now!" - She is great, and has quite a lot of patience - but most of all a lot of great experience!

So I think that is that for now, working quite a bit at the moment, busy time of year for us, and my main staff member has pneumonia -- soooo, it never ends does it? OH, until now that is...bye!

Everything is just Sockie!!

Hi Everyone! First of all, I was accepted to the Knitting Blogs blogsite, so hi to everyone who is visiting from there, and thanks for coming over to view my little blog!
I digress...The Sock Class -- arrgg, well the socks are being knitted on 2.75mm bamboos, with Regia. as you can see in the picture:..but as you can see, they don't quite look uniform! The pattern is K2P2, but since we were requested to cast-on using the thumb method (which I use quite regularly for other knitting), I spent the whole class just trying to ensure that the stitches stayed on the needles. My ears were up to my shoulders - and 2 minutes before the end, I dropped 2 stitches, and we couldn't get them back -- so I left with a ball of yarn and some needles!
After a days rest (I thought I better be safe and stay away from them for a day), I cast on using the cable cast-on method, and that was much better - I was now so glad that the stitches were staying on the needles, that I failed to see that I was not really achieving a K2P2 pattern!!@!!
Until last night, while watching my Season 5 DVD's of Will and Grace, I must have either dropped or added a stitch, and it finally worked!
So this is how things look right now:
I am actually now enjoying this, rather than being scared of it, I had put off trying socks for soooo long, because I was so afraid of it, I wanted someone to show me properly how to do it!!

As for other knitting things, these are what I had delivered to my door on Friday from Chapters:

I have heard good reviews about "The Friday Night Knitting Club", and the other is actually a Harlequin book, but looks like a good read nonetheless.
My Purple Yarn partner from a recent Swap-Bot swap, sent me this lovely yarn, it also arrived Friday:
No clue what I will make with it, but it is lovely!
Lastly, I thought I would include a couple of recent pics, from when we ventured down to New Jersey:

My sister-in-law with her new hubby! The wedding was really beautiful, the bride looked radiant!

and...

My son and I on a cold and snowy day, just over the river from the Statue of Liberty! Yup, that's me!

Talk Later, off to knit "the sock!!"