Oh man, I just got laid off! It's a corporate decision to stop offering classes, so there's the end of the greatest job ever. I will really miss those knitting classes. It was fun while it lasted.

But how on earth will we ever live without the $900 I made last year? Heh.

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1 Awwww that sucks! With the way the system works you probably qualify for unemployment, LOL. I got laid off once and I made more on unemployment than I did working. No wonder there is a problem. Sad.

Posted by: Army Blogger Wife at February 28, 2008 04:58 PM (Y3JJK)

2 SAD!!! Funny thing, I had the same thought as ABW!

Posted by: Erin at March 01, 2008 01:45 PM (y67l2)

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I spent four hours today sewing toes to feet and making up the monkey face. He's done, and he's pretty cute. Too bad he's not going to fetch $200.

Remind me to never knit stuffed animals for strangers.

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The new swear word around our house is "monkey toes."

I'm still working on the spider monkey I started back in November, a project which has been sitting in pieces on my coffee table, mocking me for months. The hitch? Individually knitted toes. Twenty of 'em. Individually sewn on to individual feet. A nightmare of sewing and weaving in ends.

But now the twenty toes are made, and it's time to buckle down and stuff them (eek) and start sewing them to the feet. And sewing the feet to the legs.

Time to get this monkey off my back. Hardy har.

(And yes, I know that the toes look like, ahem, swimmers all lined up like that. Or feminine products. That wasn't the look I was going for when I took the picture.)

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How do I love my pal Erin? Let me count the ways...

Erin's first knitting project was this baby sweater, intended for a pregnant friend. But I wasn't there when she started it, so she didn't know that she could float the yarn up the side of the work instead of cutting at every color change. When she finished all the pieces and saw the tangle of mess she had to contend with, she picked the whole thing up and placed it in the garbage can.

Luckily, I was there at that moment, and knitting -- no matter how heinous -- does not belong in the garbage. I took it home and dumped it in a box of yarn, where it sat for three years.

And if Erin had adopted a girl, it would've sat there until eternity.
But Erin had a boy, and I had work to do.

I cursed those tails as I wove them in, but I did it because I couldn't wait to hear the awe in Erin's voice when she realized that the first knitting project she ever made would actually be worn by her new baby.

And it was totally worth it.

"Tucker, look what your mommy and Aunt Sarah made for you," I heard her whisper over the phone.

Yep, totally worth it.

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Liveblogging the Super Bowl...no, just kidding. But I thought the Declaration of Independence segment was touching. Makes me feel so proud and embiggened.

And I am about to burst, I ate so much junk. Yum.

FYI, Super Bowl knitting includes another SWS Danica for Love My Tanker and a dishrag for my brothers' new apartment.

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1 Ok, so what type of yarn do you use to make dishrags? Sounds like a simple project for someone like me.

Posted by: Vonn at February 03, 2008 06:43 PM (L56+J)

2 Ok, so what type of yarn do you use to make dishrags? Sounds like a simple project for someone like me.

Posted by: vonn at February 03, 2008 06:44 PM (L56+J)

3 Vonn -- The easiest and cheapest route is to use those little balls of Sugar n Cream 100% cotton. They wash-and-wear pretty well. I'd recommend a colorway that doesn't have white in it (so they get less grimy looking). And there's a great website with a ton of patterns; google Dishcloth Boutique!

Posted by: Sarah at February 04, 2008 02:40 AM (TWet1)

4 I have never, ever felt more loved!

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Yay, the hat I made for Tucker fits!
(I am used to making preemie stuff, so newborn stuff looks gigantic to me.)

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