It's been awhile... lets catch up..

 I have neglected my blog this month. Mainly because of some health issues. I have been having severe pain in my upper thigh and hip and have been to the er twice and 3 different doctors and acupuncture for the pain . All say it is a pulled tendon. I have been in pain for over a month now, but little by little the pain is getting better. The acupuncture really helped me get over the worse pain. When I am able to rest an not walk around much, it starts to feel better.. as soon as I work a few days it gets worse and that's how it has been. Anyway I have been working on my knitting and have finished a few projects. I finished the ruffle scarf a while ago and started on some dish clothes using up the big bag of assorted cotton I have accumulated. This will be and on going project until I get tired of making them.
In the picture above is some delicious Pho that I discovered right in down town Orlando. It is now my favorite place to go.

 I started this cute little scarf quite awhile ago and put the finishing touches on it this week. I just need to take some pictures and list it in my etsy shop.

 As you can see there has been progress on my twin lace leaf cardi. I finished the back, the fronts and on my way to finishing the sleeves. All that is left is the two front panels, but I think I'm going to need one more ball of yarn. That means a trip to the yarn shop very soon.

 This happy little fellow visited our yarn group this week. Say hello to Jackie's little grandson. What a cutie.

 Not much going on here... I worked a little of the right front and put it down to finish the twin lace cardi. There really isn't much left to knit on this... I need to get working on this again.

stuff we did on a sick day

 

This morning I whipped up these little dish cloths and then I fixed a row on my sweater. I keep making just one mistake in the last pattern repeat before I split it for the armholes. I blame pain meds for that. 

Jayden wanted to paint so we sat at the dinning room table and he painted his first painting. It kind of looks like a folk art painting. He said he wanted to paint a tree with leaves and a blue bird in a nest. He said he wanted to decorate the tree. (^_^)

project updates.

 Lots of stuff has been happening since my trip to Seattle. Four days after my trip my little dog passed away. She was part of our family for 15 years. I took it pretty hard and developed a horrible nerve pain in my leg. A trip to the ER and now I'm on anti spasm meds. I also went for acupuncture and she is treating me for shingles. It's been a rough 10 days.
Anyway I have been working on my knitting which relaxes me and playing some games with Jayden. He won that round.  Hopefully I will get better soon and can stop the medication. 

 Here is the lace cardi which is almost at the point where I start the armholes and the ruffle scarf below that I started in Seattle. I only work on it here and knitting about two or three rows a time. As you can see from the ball of yarn that is left, it is almost finished. I hope I can still wear this with short sleeves. I love the color.

My Seattle visit

Well I am back home.. have gone to work again...and trying to adjust to the time change. I had a wonderful time in the Seattle area and really didn't want to come back to Florida hahah. As far as knitting goes, I didn't get much knitting done on the projects I brought with me but made a hat for my son, some dish clothes and a little crochet pouch for an i-pod and head phones. Mostly I enjoyed the company of my sons and their friends and all there is to see in Seattle. I didn't make it to the local Stitch n' bitch because I thing we were burned out from sight seeing. Anyway here are some pictures of my vacation. 

 

 A day of hiking to the beach. We had to wade through a little tunnel that was full of icy cold water. I loved all the drift wood on the beach. It was a beautiful sunny day.

 The next day it was a little rainy so we went and ate at the Korean B-B-Q. I have never been to one and all I can say is that it was awesome and yummy. The next day it was off to the yarn shops. This was the first one we visited in Edmonds. It was really cute but we arrive right before the shop was closing so we took a quick look but didn't purchase anything.

 A drift wood whale on Edmonds beach. I didn't take pictures of the yarn shop that I actually purchased yarn in... probably because the shop was so fabulous that I forgot to. It is the yarn shop in Mill Creek called Main Street yarn.

 Yarn goodies.

 Game night. We played Stone age. I actually got that game.. some take a few times playing to get the hang of them.

 Mid week projects. Finishing the Simple sprinkle for my son, Lace leaf cardi back, and a boy beanie.

 Visited the local DSW. A beautiful new store... very large!

 A day trip to the city of Seattle. We parked and road the trolly to Pikes Place market. What an adventure.

 Yes.. this is where they throw the fish. It was a horribly busy day there, but I did see a fish fly through the air.

 The notorious gum wall.. I don't think I need to say more. We were in awe of all the gum stuck on the wall...

 My son's room mate used to drive and live on this tug boat. We got to go inside. It's like a little house trailer inside with 3 floors. So cool.

 More food... This is Sushi land. Little plates of sushi travel around on a conveyer belt and you choose the ones you want. That was pretty fun. Next there was PHO. Yummy is all I have to say. This was the first time I tried it and its really good if you like fragrant soup with rice noodles and I love noodles.

 I had time to visit Edmunds college. Both of my son's attend there. Other things we did were visit Trader Joes and some more walking around Mill Creek and more game nights and just spent time together. I had a great time. (^_^)

 

Well...I haven't blogged in a while because I was planning a trip to
Washington state to visit my boys and working some extra hours and things like that. So I am finally here in Washington having a wonderful time . I have gone hiking in the forest to the beach and visited 2 yarn shops and played euro board games. Of course I brought lots of knitting projects with me and took over the living room table. I'm blogging on my phone and will catch you up on my vacation when I return home.

knitting shenanigans

This week I got to go to the parks with the family. The garden show just started and we got to see butterflys  and pretty flower displays. The little ones really liked the butterflys. Jayden posed for pictures in the new Disney film Oz posters. These were pretty cute. All he needs is a little top hat.

 On to knitting... I had to decide which color to use for the next striped short row section of my Simple Sprinkle scarf. The orange was supposed to be the next color and would be knit with the black. I just didn't want it to look like halloween colors so I decided to go with the yellow yarn instead. This will be color number 7. I had also added and extra color in the last simple sprinkle scarf that I had knit which worked out well . More pictures of this in a few days when I get more of the next section knit.

 Remember this sweater... well... I love the color and the pattern but I ran out of yarn. I had two other yarns in the same color but they were not all exactly the same. I got to the point where I just needed to knit the last front edge and that's where I ran out of the main yarn. I tried knitting the sleeves with one of the other yarns but the color was way off. Well I didn't just try to knit the sleeves I actually finished them in the other yarn. At that point I rolled the sweater up and stuffed it in a bag and put it in the closet. On my last trip to the yarn shop I made the decision to purchase a completed new yarn and bought more than enough to make a whole new sweater. As you can see in the picture the yarn is the exact same color as the main yarn... but I am not tempted to just knit the sleeves and the front edge... I will start fresh... I'm really not temped.

More unfinished projects that I hope to work on this week. All I have to do is finish the heart in duplicate stitch on this baby blanket. I think I can do it... and below is a chunky sweater I started when we had a little cold spell here. This sweater was on my ravelry queue for this winter and I had purchased the yarn in the fall but the weather got so warm I really didn't want to knit it until last week. As of now I almost have the body finished to the point where I separate it for the arm holes. Our weather has been so crazy... cold then hot and then cold again. I started to feel a little sick again today and hopefully a good nights rest will make me feel better tomorrow.