We’re moving, to a bigger house in a different area yet the same area. As if that makes any sense. We’re staying in the metroplex, better? New neighborhood. and stuff. We drive out there a LOT and will drive back this way, oh two-three times a week.

So there is lotsa packing to do and I don’t think much knitting will get done but hey. That’s life.

As for what i’ve dreamed of, when we move I’ll have my own closet so I can do yarn storage without anyone putting electronics on top of my yarn. I don’t have a lot of clothes, so it should be easy to make it mostly yarn & fabric . . .  Our room also has a little sitting area, in which we’ll each have a desk. Mine will have my sewing machine & other crafty type stuff. My husbands will be computer-y. Fine with me! I want to put a comfy chair up there eventually, I really want a glider but we’ll see. The windows look down on the backyard, which is just. awesome. And the kiddos will have a play room/living area (tv) right outside our room too. We just need a baby gate for the top of the stairs !

So. exciting. There is also some possible job stuff going on and my husband has been working temp jobs, so bills are getting paid and stuff. It’s allll good. best life motto, ever.    

I went to knit night last night and managed to knit a little on a baby sweater I started MONTHS ago that was meant to be a gift, but yeah right. I also managed to knit on a baby hat that is a gift for a little bit. I wanted to work on hat #2 to catch it up to where hat #1 is at, but I didn’t have the pattern so I need to find and print that again. Gotta love Ravelry . .  . i’m sure I have it saved on there! 

Safe birth kits sound like a really wonderful idea. I think everyone pretty much knows how I feel about birth. And babies. And how much I love baby hats - I’ll have to find some old shirts to try the sewing pattern, but I’ll probably knit one too.

Around here lately - Toby is Growing, and I knit myself some fingerless mitts for Nano.

I was reading on the Nano Ravelry forum and decided I need a pair of fingerless gloves for this November. I remember it being cold enough last year to finish up my novel sitting in front of the fire all cozy under my favorite blanket, making sure ms. Aa didn’t come too near the heat (and my worries of this will be multiplied this year, as mr. TJ will be mobile anytime now I’m sure). So tonight I cast on and started mitt 1. I have wanted to make myself a pair for a long time, i’m glad it’s happening. 

TJ is five months old! It goes so crazy fast. He is a sweetheart. Aa just turned 3, and K’s 8th birthday was this month too. The other two boys have December birthdays.

I couldn’t find a post to go with it, but Joy helped me at knit night earlier this year with the long tail cast on, and I thought I didn’t "get it" at the time. However when I decided to cast on with it for these fingerless mitts all I had to do was look at a photo, copy what I saw with the yarn around the fingers, and I remembered everything she had shown me. Crazy! It is a little wonky, but I am sure i’ll get smoother as I go. And I <3 handknit with it’s little quirks vs. pictureperfect everything. luckily.

near future knitting includes a tassel belt for my sister, finishing the circular baby blanket for baby V (yes, it was baby Z, but she has been born and is a V instead), and a Hug for someone special who is far away.

i’ve also been sewing a lot ! Might as well include that here. I sewed a little vest for L’s halloween costume (Diego-Aa will be Dora. Sweeeet!), a Cinderella book (bought a kit thing on sale a year or more ago) for Aa, A couple of bean bags for Aa, Uhm. I guess that is it, but there is more planned - a ballerina bag for Aa (from a panel purchased by mom *years* ago - must purchase interfacing), a ballerina wall hanging for Aa, a couple of blankets for a sweet unborn baby (flannel is on sale this week, should go get some).