Be Happy

I did always like this song. Thanks, Heather, for sharing this link with me!



Another Fun Quiz

Are you a Yankee or a Dixie? The quiz seems to be down at the moment, but hopefully they will get it back up. It worked a few days ago. I came out 60% Dixie, based on dialect. That result may seem strange, but I did go to high school in Austin, Texas. Also, some of the Uintah Basin dialect they speak around here in North-Eastern Utah is based on Southern speech patterns.

Knitting

I'm almost finished with the socks. Still not sure who they will fit - most likely Jonathan. There is one place on one sock where I evidently did not keep my yarn in front when slipping stitches. Ooops! What do I expect when I use knitting to keep anxiety under control, as I was doing at the time when I probably made that error? It's far enough down that I don't want to undo stitches that far to fix it, so after I finish the socks I will cut the yarn where it catches the wrong side and weave in more yarn to repair it.

What to knit next?

I have more possibilities than I know what to do with. I really like the new bonus pattern that Knitty just published, and I have a couple of different yarns that I am considering but I'm not sure I have quite enough. Either the green bead yarn or the Autumn yarn. I thought I had a picture of that here after it was spun, but maybe not - I can't find it. Same goes for the green yarn, which is also my own handspun. I know I took pictures - maybe I didn't publish them though. Anyway, I'm not positive that I have enough of either, so maybe I'll do the front in one and (no, they won't go together) use a neutral color for the back.

As if I didn't have enough yarn, I found these grab bags on sale at One Fine Yarn. It's probably whatever they have left of a dye lot, but you don't choose the color - you just get what they have, and can choose all different colors or two skeins of each color.





I am wondering if there is enough of the Peer Gynt to knit a Norwegian style sweater. What do you think? I would make it up as I go along, choosing patterns that would use approximately equal amounts of each color.

Or I could use it for socks, hats, mittens, etc., with Norwegian motifs of course.

Not really sure what to do with the Cascade yet, although nosewarmers are fun. I made some of them last winter, and my kids thought they were good as chicken hats too, which means they got left outside sometimes, but the kids did like them. I'm just not sure how many nosewarmers we really need.

Sheep



Here's a picture of Amidala taking her turn watching the babies. She may be paying more attention to her own, but the ewes do trade off sometimes and one will mind all the kids while the rest of the ewes go off on their own somewhere.