Knit Faster!

I feel I have been working on these gloves way to long…I started back in January and I am still not finished with one.  Close but not quite.  In my defense, I have had to make a LOT of adjustments to the pattern,  my husband’s hands are as wide as the pattern, but not as long.  The original pattern looks a lot like what I have done below, but the waste yarn is there to add a cap to the gloves.

With the cap it looks like, I still need to add a cap for the thumb:

I also need to get started on my Project Yarnway challenge project, but I know what a mess that will be as soon as I open up all those beads!!!!  On the bright side, there are already flowers coming up.  I can’t believe it.  I has not gotten out of the 40′s on the good days….but here is the proof!

It is making me dream of summer…I can’t wait until it is warm enough to put hte dock back out and sit by the water in the sun. 

So,  I have not had my mac, so I finished this over a week ago and still have not posted it!  This is Bobbi’s Bahama Beach Bag that I created for the April challange.

Therre are desciptions of the challenge and my orginal sketches here:

http://eugenebinx.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/project-yarnway-april-challengebag-it-tag-it/

http://eugenebinx.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/project-yarnway-april-update/

I love the final design.  It is kind of like a backpack.  When you grab the straps, it closes the top of the bag!

The timing was prefect, I was able to deliver the bag while Tom and I were in Florida for a short vacation. 

We spent a lot of the time on the beach.

Not sure what to do with the ton of seashells we found!

It was clouldy the first few days, but it was warm the whole time we were there. 

We also found some scary looking jelly fish!

Some of them were deflated….

The artists of this sandcastle insisted that they be incldued in any photos of it…

The last day on the beach was very sunny and great!  I love sunshine! 

I got my new mac!  It is so awesome.  I went with a 17″ MacBook Pro with a solid state drive.  SO cool.  It has been so hard to keep up with stuff when I have to borrow Tom’s computer….I am so glad to have my mac back!  I decided to name it Big mac since it is so huge!  Mr. Macky has now been retired.  It still works as long as I use an external monitor.

 I finish the front of the bag and I was not happy! 

It was so wide and then came in sharply to the where the handles would have been.   And the sockinette stitch on the bottom was too loose!

 So I decided to start over.  I got some more yarn (added some color).  I did love the lattice stitch, so that will stay, but the idea for the bag now is much different.  I decided to make a bag kind of like a backpack that the straps go all the way through the top of the bag so when you pick up the straps it closes the bag.  I also changed the bottom so it is a different color, in moss stitch and with a smaller needle so it wouldn’t be loose like the  last one.

Here is the new sketch and materials:

The new swatch (upside down!)

I finished up the back of the bag.  The large holes are for the strap to run out of the back and connect to the bottom of the bag.

Yeah, we are going to Florida!  Tom is doing a training session in Florida at the end of May, so he has a free flight out threre.  I found I had enough miles on my card to get my flight for free as  well!  So we are booked and getting 4 days in the sun.   Mmmm, beach, here I come!!

I have a no leak coffee cup, that apparently leaked!!  There was so much coffee in my bag and now the screen on my mac is destroyed.  I called apple and fixing it would cost so much, it is worth just buying another! 

Poor Mr. Macky!  I already miss him!

So, last week, everyone on our team put in one dollar for an office poll.   The bet was to guess the percent closes to the PST (profit sharing) that was finally announced yesterday.  My guess was 18.5% and the actual number came in at 18.61%.  So I won! 

And to top things off, Jean deliver the girl scout cookies I ordered!  The poll bought my cookies!  And we should be getting more Anime from netflix today!!  How sweet! 

Our first date was Valentine’s Day 3 years ago!  There was a very nice surprize waiting for me when I got home from work on Friday, a vase filled with red roses and white lilies.  So beautiful. 

This year, we decided to go back to the same restaurant from our first date.  It is an old German place with an old polka band. 

It was fun!  I tried the venison,  which I have never had outside of Grandpa’s Deer jerky before, and it was pretty good!   I am lucky to have such a great sweetheart!  I hope Tom knows how appreciated he is!  XoXoXo