Interesting!

In the last month, I've had exactly 100 people visit the blog. Why do round numbers tend to occur in random events? hmmm...

Maybe next month, we can have 200?

quick update, illustrate later.

It's been raining, a lot. It's not flooding at our house, but if you go a couple blocks away from here there was a lot of water in the streets. At least 6 inches of rain came down (I'm going by how deep the water is in the baby pool. And I had just emptied the pool, darn it). Can we say Noah's Ark, anyone?

This morning, we took Little Sister to the airport to travel to Kansas. It turned out to be a huge hassle, she wound up flying on standby, but she did reach Kansas safely. She's going to be gone for two weeks, and I already miss her.

I've finished a knitting project. (one. one project. In a month. This is so sad.) I did the last segment on a circular dishcloth that I knit for our local knitting group's dishcloth swap. I've decided I like the pattern: it's really easy, and turns out very pretty.

Sucessful expedition to Hoosier Hills Fiber Fest

Indeed, it was a successful adventure, full of interesting encounters and lovely treasure.

This post may be a bit fragmentary, as I'm typing it in the bedroom, while supervising the little boy who is supposed to be going to bed because he had a temper tantrum....deep breath...but I do have pictures! Not of the Fiber Fest, itself, sadly. (I really should have had a photo of Little J petting the little black lamb. So cute! Or Little G and the lady who kept running into us and loving on the little girl. (mental note to self: bloggers and shutterbugs keep their cameras with them at ALL TIMES)) but of the loot we brought home.

Little Sister went along, and was in charge of herding Little J, so, as a for her being so rewardhelpful, she was presented with a drop spindle of her own, and pretty fleece to practice with.The pretty wool, (blue and silver) she has to share (officially) but she's taking it to Kansas with her, so we'll see how much is left when she gets back home. The smaller drop spindle is mine. I want to try spinning some lace wt yarn, with the new little spindle.

I have some pretty roving and a silk hankie to spin. The roving has a lovely sheen - it's a merino/alpaca blend. I've 3 oz each of a brown and a grey. Wonderful! I think that this is what I want to make lace wt yarn out of. (I don't spin. I tried once last year. I have a niggling feeling that the universe is going to curse me for my hubris in boldly attempting lace wt, but I'm going to try anyway.) I'm thinking of lovely lace scarves...

I grabbed three skeins of handdyed yarn from the Creatively Dyed booth. Her name on ravelry is Creative, and the yarns were wonderful! All different colors, and different yarns...her daughter was with her today, too. Her daughter's birthday is tomorrow. Happy Birthday, Little D!

And, I haven't mentioned it yet, but I have one more item, non-wool/knitting related. I stopped at Clementine's Dry Good's booth (Cami is evil!) and the proprietress convinced me to buy a baby sewing pattern. It's such a cute little dress! I'll have to stop in to Clementine's soon to look for material for it.

My amazon.com order arrived!

Oooh! i ordered books, and a new stroller. Whee! knitting and a baking book, what could be yummier?

I ordered Cat Bordhi's "New Pathways for Sock Knitters" and "More Big Girl Knits" by Jillian Moreno and Amy Singer. I've glanced thru both so far, but Little Sister grabbed them both and was oohing and aahing. Lovely patterns, there's just so much stuff I want to make, that I can't decide what to do next.

Also, I ordered Small Batch baking after seeing what another blogger did with it on her blog. It's making small batchs of deserts and breads, instead of making an entire cake, or 4 dozen cookies. Because, let's face it, if I make a cake, I'm going to be the one to eat the most of it, no matter what my good intentions say. this way, the leftover cake is much much smaller :)

I was going to put pictures on to show you the pretty books, but it's now tomorrow, and I still haven't added pictures, so, today is a picture free post. Hey, I'm doing good to post at all!

Panera's is great for knitters

It's that never-ending cup of tea. I love it! and they never complain about how many times I get a refill on hot water, either.


I went to the Indianapolis Southside Knitters last night, just me and the littlest girl. I had a great time, and came back with my face aching from smiling so much (which made me think that I don't smile very much at home. I've too much to remeber and worry about when I'm with kidlets. And even with my husband, these days.) Crystal made up a cute toy bunny for Little G, which Little J promptly tried to abscond with as soon as he saw it.


I was able to knit a few rows on my current sock project, while Little G was asleep on my lap.


gotta go, the little girl wants picked up.