How to Spot an OCD Person....

People are always wondering what people who don't have children do with their time. Well, let me tell you. We spend FIVE HOURS, that's right, five, unraveling a stubborn ball of yarn that refuses to unknot itself. It was innocently bound up as a hank and when I gently tried to use my ball winder, it become a veritable Medusa's nest....My back still hurts....Did I mention it was sock yarn? Blast!
The other fun new project I am starting is the other pillow (see post below) to go with the one I knitted for the couch at my book club's store. I cut and pasted their logo into a photo program and then turned it into a chart (with the help of my computer genius husband.) It may sound easy-and that's what I told him-but it took us an hour to do it together. I am still going to have to finagle some of the pattern to get it to look just right.
So I don't have any pictures to post just yet-I haven't been able to get my husband's new ski mask on him. Hello? I asked him if 13 degree weather is not cold enough to wear it, what is? If he doesn't wear it tomorrow-I am SO over January-I know he really just doesn't like it but doesn't want to hurt my feelings. (How many times can you say doesn't in one sentence?) If that is the case, I will reclaim the yarn, i.e. frog, because the "extra" yarn I found was really for the second pillow I am making. Oops!

Peasant Top Part Tres

As you can see, I finally got the Peasant Top finished. It has actually been done for quite some time. I have since knitted a pillow for the couch at my Book Club(see below), a couple of cat blankets-which I have stopped photographing due to the volume of pictures previously devoted to cat blankets. If you want to see them, go to the Humane Society-and two super cute hats for my nieces. I did the Piggle pattern on http://www.knitty.com/ but moved the pigtail holes closer to the back of the hat. My nieces don't have quite as much hair as the model did. In fact, the elder of the two girls wanted to shave her head (her mother said no.) In any case, projects have been flying by.

I made a major score on some sock yarn in Walla Walla over Christmas break and am looking forward to utilizing that soon. Ironically, half of the yarn I got (of course it was on sale) was orange so I am foreseeing some BSU socks in my future. Currently I am having a hard time coming up with a project. The sweater for my husband-for Christmas-that turned into a vest due to lack of yarn is having to be re-started (agony, agony) b/c the gauge is off. Yes, sometimes when you calculate, it still turns out differently in the larger piece. Translation: my swatch was full of *. Since the sweater is six inches too wide (on my skeletal husband, that would be more noticeable than on most people) I am running out of yarn for even a vest. Grrr. I can't even tell you how many hours I have put into this thing (a lot) but I can tell you that I am not going to wing it from here on out. I am bound and determined to find a man's sweater pattern that will work. Seeing as how Christmas has come and gone and his birthday is around the corner, I will be making him one of those ski masks that covers his face so he won't be so cold outside this January. I better get to it. Time is running out.