First the fluff. The Mister and I had words this week. I've been trying to convince him to buy a little travel trailer but he insists that I have too many hobbies to fit in one. When I packed to come up to Daughter's for a week I brought ONE bag for all my hobbies. It is one of those, reusable Marshall's type bags and in it was four knitting projects, two embroidery projects, my paper piecing project including my mini iron and....my drop spindle. I don't need a wheel to keep my fiber thing going. All I need is one of these and it fits in a pencil case. I can easily pack enough to keep my hands busy for weeks so I think I won this one.
As for felines, back at home the plumbing folks showed up bright and early to install our new shower surround. After they put on the final panel they could hear a faint meowing coming from behind the shower. It seems one of our skittish kitties had somehow gotten herself lost in the walls while they had the bathroom door open that morning. Off the panel came and away went the plumbers. They'll be back another day to finish the job.
It was this kitty to be exact, seen here relaxing last fall when we were in the process of doing the downstairs floors. It was weird that she was even upstairs to begin with. My kitties are semi-feral. They keep to themselves, are very territorial and disappear completely if a stranger is in the house. Happily, it didn't take too long for her to find her way back out and back downstairs where she belongs.
My babysitting adventure is officially over. Today I get to watch the family drive off on a five day road trip so Daughter can attend a far away skating competition with her team. Packing for a toddler and an infant is quite an undertaking. There are piles of stuff all over the place that have to be squeezed into their SUV.
The delivery people have been busy bringing packages of things for the trip. Big Grand was excited to get a new pair of Crocs in one of the boxes. Now I get to sit here all by my lonesome with their four kitties. The house is going to seem awfully quiet.
The Pi shawl had a misadventure this week. I was transferring the stitches over to a longer cable after the last increase on Monday morning when I thought to look at the pattern. I had increased at 34 stitches from the last increase and I was actually supposed to have increased at round 48. I was three rows in so tinking back all those hundreds of stitches was not much fun but it got done. Happily this is the last increase I have to remember. EZ's directions say to knit 40 rounds after that or to stop whenever you get tired. I wasn't having a good time right then but I just had to laugh.
The April Fool's addition of TNT has the Garden of joy at the beginning of another row. This is only the top half of the pattern. There's still a lot of row left to stitch in each one of them.
Snort Stack in sitting pretty on its mound of flowers. I'll be starting piggy #2 soon.
I'm starting to join the sections now on Patchwork of the Crosses. I've packed the paper piecing to take on my adventure today so I should have a lot to work with when I get back.
The center section of D 11 is finished. It did not go down without a fight. I think a good steaming will help it lay flat. There's still a lot of applique work to do before I can declare this war over. And I thought this would be an easy one.......ha.
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