All Tangled Up

She’s finally finished, whew (insert brow wipe here)! And it only took 79 days and a total of 4 broken needles to finish. Impertinent socks indeed, but so worth it. I can’t even begin to describe how much I love the finished product. There’s no second-sock syndrome with these babies, the pattern keeps you on your toes the whole way. It is seriously the best designed pattern I have ever knit. Period. Thank you Yarnissima!

For now I need to move on to much simpler knitting, I need a “brainless” and quick knit that will just fly off my needles while I watch TV. I just need to recuperate from the Impertinent Socks. Last night I cast-on Small Wings Socks from the Little Box of Socks book I received way back in December. I’m thinking that it’s just what the doctor ordered, thanks Ruby! Once they’re done (and once I receive my Knit Picks order of replacement needles) I think another Yarnissima pattern beckons me – Cairdeas maybe, or perhaps Spina de Pesci? …

Sorry, today I don’t have any knitting updates to share.  Nor do I have anything particularily clever to say, or a funny story to share.   

The truth is, I haven’t knit a single stitch in a week now.   My precious knitting bag is packed up and hidden in a huge floor to ceiling stack of cardboard boxes sitting in my mother in law’s living room.   You see, it was only supposed to be packed up for just a few hours, to keep it safe as it made the journey from our city condo to a beautiful new home just a little bit north.  A beautiful new house with plenty of room for a sewing/knitting room and plenty of room for our daughter to run around in.  I won’t go into all of the gory details – its quite the stressfull, crazy, unbelievable story -  but in a nutshell, at the very last minute we didn’t get the house.  And I really mean the very last minute.  All of our possessions were loaded onto the moving truck with absolutely no where to go.   Thankfully, we have a wonderful caring and supportive family who took us all in at the last minute and thankfully today things are looking a little brighter – we may get the house after all.    Its good to know that there are still  people you can count on, even amidst those that let you down big time.  Those that care what happens to you, your family and your child even amidst those who don’t care enough to pick up the phone and say sorry I let you down.  Thank God for *real* family and Thank God for the kindness of strangers.

Where has the year gone? I can’t believe little A has been with us for one year now! Its been such a blast, and I feel so blessed to be little A’s mama. Happy Birthday little pumkin’ !