Sheep Shots

I miss my mind the most!

Last night's grocery episode was among the Top 5 Worst of All Time! I really need to start taking the camera along. (I thought last week when the little kid threw up in the checkout line was the topper!)

Call me a bitch. (Go on, you know you want to.) I don't go to the grocery to socialize. I go to get food and pay for it and come home. I use the self-check for that very reason! I do not wish to discuss (for the 4th Friday in a row) how much I "enjoy" shopping.

Nor do I want to be told, when the pull-off coupon on my package 1) pulls off entirely--that is, doesn't peel off with the bar code exposed, then 2) when I peel it apart, the bar code sloughs off onto the sticky part, that I must stand in line at the customer service desk (where 27 people are lined up to buy lottery tickets) in order to get my $2 rebate.

And then, when I scan my "free with purchase" soda can cozy (that I didn't want, but the Other Half did) for which I meet all the criteria (purchased $10 in Pepsi/Frito-Lay products, check, use my bonus card, check, and do it between August 18 and October 28, check, I do not expect to be charged $2.11 ($1.99 plus tax) for a freakin' can cozy that I didn't want in the first place!

You know the 27 people lined up for lottery tickets? There are now 34 of them and a guy filling his propane tanks! And I need to be accompanied back to the display by a high school kid who will indeed affirm that the sign is there! Tell me that I was the first person to take "advantage" of this offer! I think not!





So, okay, I finally found a pattern that will fit on the plum baby sweater. It's 14 stitches wide. I have 98 stitches. Perfect.

Except that, well, you take a look. Something is amiss.

Off center? Not unlike the knitter?

I've bound off the bottom already. I am not frogging 16 rows. The next one will be better.

Sleeve Island, here I come.

(This sweater is a lot tinier than it looks in the photo. The sleeves will not be a major project!)




I finished the Big Red Fuzzy last night.

It really is soft and warm. And a good size for a real baby up to toddlerhood.

I will be using the leftover skeins (10 or so of them, plus some leftovers from another project) to make a cat cozy for the Resident Cat.

But. . .










I was turned on to this pattern that seems somewhat suitable (and uses about 1 ball of the Frenzy per pair). Because the grist (yarn thickness) is a little different than the called for yarn (Debbie Bliss Cahmerino Superchunky-75 yards/100 g.--Frenzy is 120 yards per 100 g, but is fluffy.) I compensated by using a smaller needle (10 v. 10.5) and cast on for a larger size (Child L to get a finished Child M) than I want to finish up.

This could be interesting.

Update:The Regia hat is in its way to the frog pond. I am going to run out of yarn before I run out of hat! I may just frog half of the ribbing and forgo the turned up cuff.