Finished



Finally! It was so close, but I just didn't get the knitting time Monday that I expected to. Usually, I knit while the kids are at dance, but they didn't go. All weekend and all day I was telling them they had to clean their room in order to maintain privileges (such as dance class). They did nothing. Time to leave for dance, and they said, "just let us go to dance and we'll clean our room afterwards." Ha! I've heard that story before, and it never works out that way. Anyone have any solutions to getting kids not to throw all of their clothes all over the floor and refuse to pick them up?

Anyway, I finished the apron this morning. All that was left was the end of one of the waist ties. Knitting in seed stitch used to be one of my least favorite stitches, but it works out really well with the knitting back and forth without turning the work technique. I think it actually goes faster backwards, when the right hand gets to move the yarn back and forth. Besides that, for long narrow bands like this, it is so nice not to have to stop and turn the piece around, and nothing gets tangled or twisted. Okay, enough about ambidextrous knitting, until the next time! Here's the picture from Saturday of the skirt.

Suzie



Cats find the silliest places to relax! Suzie climbs up into the mattress of the upper bunk all by herself and just has a blast in there.