Archive for July, 2007
Rebecca #32??
Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Does anyone have an extra copy of Rebecca 32 that they’d be willing to trade? If so, comment here and we’ll talk.
ETA: got it! Thanks!
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Baby Surprise Day 1
Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Here’s my progress day 1. This is completely obsessive, “must finish one stage before I stop” -style knitting.
This photo really represents what the inside of my brain looks like right now, too. We’re working on a paper for publication, so I’m frantically getting the figures together and putting the finishing touches on the data reduction. It’s a project that I’ve been invested in since grad school…so getting it finished up is a great feeling.
And THAT side of my brain is struggling with the other side that has BABY running through every fiber. If I can get my head into the project, I can really immerse myself in it and make great progress. If, however, I have to get up and be sick every 45 minutes…it’s just BABY BABY BABY in there.
Here’s a closeup, including the gorgeous markers that Lindsay made for me. She’s such a great person, and a friend I met on LJ, who *happens* to be from B-more, but I didn’t meet her when I lived there. She even works at my alma mater!!
Here we are at TNNA…that’s my booth in the background with the hot pink tulle and black star lamps.
PS: Knit your own iPhone! (link courtesy the amazing Xtina)
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Baby Surprise Jacket
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
Since I’m so obsessed with this pattern, I can’t wait until my Spincyle yarn arrives. I’ll make another one when it does…but for now I found something I can cast on with right away.
It’s some as yet unidentified (I need to look back though my notebook to find the label) handspun in very New Mexico colors: pink, tangerine, purple, and light turquoise blue. I bought it last summer in Minneapolis, washed it because it was too ‘raw’ for me, and accidentally felted it. So now I’m untangling it and un-dredding it. It’s not nearly as bad as I thought it was, but it IS pretty matted in places.
I have all the hanks wound into balls and am ready to cast on.
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Heartbeat followup post / handspun shout out
Monday, July 2nd, 2007
(See end for explanation as to why this photo goes with this post!)
That’s “Booya Kasha” from Spincycle!
SO. Along with hearing the baby’s heartbeat came the news that I am considered ‘elderly’ to be having a baby. The midwife told me that she herself was elderly, and it was fine. And my nurse practitioner was 36 when she had her baby. I knew going into this that we’d be considered somewhat ‘high risk’ because of my age…but it’s hard to hear anyway. And really, really strange…because I don’t feel like an elderly 35-er.
I like this Dr. Sears book
Before the next appointment (July 30) we need to have decided which if any tests we want to go through. We need to do some more research before we decide anything. I came home with a handful of pamphlets on all of the various things.
It’s this kind of thing that makes it hard to concentrate for the rest of the day after these appointments. My brain just starts working overtime and I have this inconsolable need to figure it all out NOW. And because that’s just impossible, I then wander on to the “what should I make for the baby next?” question.
After seeing a few Baby Surprise Jackets (1, 2, 3, 4) , I’m completely moved to make one. And I *must* find some handspun yarn to use!
Does anyone have soft, pretty Aran weight handspun yarn to sell me? (I have paypal, and I’m not afraid to use it!) I’m excited enough about this to also make booties and hat to go with, so I’d need probably 500 yds total. I’ve been looking through the websites of the usual suspects and lots of people are all sold out! Reds, magenta, oranges, yellows, blues, greens, purple, brown…any color is good. Just not “baby” pink or “baby” blue! 
See, just the thought of starting this project has completely cheered me up!
ETA: AHA! I found the perfect stuff!! (See photo at top!) (But of course am always in the market!!)
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heartbeat
Monday, July 2nd, 2007
Today we heard the baby’s heartbeat for the first time. WOW.