August Update~

Posted on August 16, 2010 by gettinitpegged

Here we are another week into the August goal planning for the book…let’s see how we’re doing!

  1. My daughter has started looming with me and she’s almost done test knitting one very doozy of a project.  Along the way, we’re taking step-by-step pics where needed.
  2. I’ve gotten 5 patterns typed into the computer…including 2 very involved ones!
  3. We got to travel to my little great-niece’s house to have a photo session with her sporting 3 of the projects for the book.  This was a lot of fun, as it was the first time the girls and I had gotten to meet her…she was only 2 weeks old at the time.  Such a sweetie-pie, let me tell you!  I realized I’ve already mentioned this trip in passing, but not in book context, so I thought it would be good to record about an official photo shoot, lol.  😉

That’s pretty much it for the book for last week.  I did get another pattern all typed up and submitted to the Loom Knitter’s Circle for the Fall/Winter issue, so be looking for that to be happening soon. This project is one of my favorites that I have been saving for just the right time to share with you all…I hope you enjoy it!

Something that has been taking up a lot of time last week is taking my daughter back and forth to the DMV for her written exam to get her permit (an all day long process!) and then…teaching her to drive! Yes, this is my 18 year old, newly graduated girlie, but she has until just recently been dead set against learning to.  Which, really, I think is very responsible of her.  She was so busy getting both her high school and her AA completed at the same time that she  wanted to focus on those things and not push herself too far over the top.  She also worried about being behind the wheel of a “several ton killing machine” (in her own words, lol) and didn’t feel ready for that kind of responsibility…which in itself is very responsible indeed, don’t you think??  She’s doing quite well…on Saturday, she even drove us to Fred Meyer and back.  This is really saying something, because we’re talking about driving in the streets of TACOMA!  Quite an ordeal when you’ve had tons of driving experience, let alone a newbie behind the wheel.  All in all, she’s doing quite nicely. 🙂

I think with everything going on, and all the things I’m holding in my mind, I’m starting to be a bit scatter-brained.  I’m starting to not be able to get my words out correctly when I’m speaking…strange things come out of my mouth that are really supposed to be intelligible, but are hybrids of real words and things I just make up in my addled mind, lol.  I’ve also had 3 instances last week where I was picking up something at the store which I was sure was the right thing, only to get home and discover it was absolutely the wrong thing…something that’s been a long standing joke in my family about being my hubby’s trouble, only to now find myself being afflicted. 😛  It didn’t make it any better that in every case it was something that he most often uses, and I got it wrong.  *sigh*

All this made going to my hubby’s annual family picnic for his work  yesterday very nice indeed.  I just played bingo for most of the time.  It was very soothing to only have to worry about the numbers in front of me and the only action required was placing a penny over the ones being called, lol.

…okay…enough whining.  Onto what’s up for the week ahead:

  1. Type 5 more projects into the computer.
  2. Complete test knitting for current item.
  3. Proceed to 2nd test knitting item (with pics).
  4. Bring to life 3 more projects from my notebooks.
  5. Enroll Megan into her new school.
  6. Survive more driver’s training.

If I make it through all that, it will be a small miracle indeed.  Well…considering the driver’s training, it might not be so small after all, lol!  😉

Hope you all have a super fantastic week!

Bethany~

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not much to say…

Posted on August 9, 2010 by gettinitpegged

…except that I’ve managed to complete 3 new projects last week! 😀

Well…I’m actually only counting it as one of the seven that need to get done this month, but it really is three individual variations of a project that was on the list to be created, although it is under one main pattern title.  Got it?  Good! 😉

The other interesting piece of news is that I now have an employee!  My daughter Emily is going to be helping me loom up some of these goodies so that we are actually going to have a chance at meeting these deadlines…yippee!   She’s a very talented yarn crafter and will be an excellent right arm…especially since I’m a leftie, lol.

I did get to travel to my old home town of Chehalis twice last week.  We went to see my new grand-niece, Presley Elizabeth, on Tuesday…what a precious thing she is!  So cuddly and sweet…I could just hover over her and take pictures of her every breath and twitch, lol.  It was hard to pull away!  I found myself with the same difficulty when I got to visit with her again at our Albright Family Reunion on Saturday, which was the other reason for us to travel south.  It was really a lot of fun seeing everyone again and we realized when taking group pictures that we had FIVE generations in attendance!  Wow!  That’s something, isn’t it?  We decided that we’re going to bring the family into the computer age by starting a FB page so we can stay in touch better…that’s another something when you consider all those early generations figuring out how to work it all, lol!

Well…I should be off.  Back to Loomy-ville I go, lol! 😉  I’m thinking of making a collage of bits and pieces of projects finished thus far for the book…let you try and guess what they all are, lol!  Maybe I’ll have a little prize for the someone who guesses the most correct items.  hmmm…definitely something to think about!

Have a wonderful week…make it gReAt!!!

Bethany~

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August Plans~

Posted on August 1, 2010 by gettinitpegged

I’ve started out the month with a BANG!  🙂 

I’ve just today completed project number 13 for the BOOK!!!!  I’m really thrilled with how they’re all coming out…I hope that you will be too when I finally get to share them with you.   It’s been like expecting a baby and keeping all the milestones and progress a secret, lol. 

My goals for the end of the month of August: 

  • Complete 7 more new projects for the book.
  • Type all the patterns into the computer…I should be doing this as I go, I suppose, but I tend to take my knitting everywhere with me, and my little design notebooks go along for the ride, too.  Inside their pages are stashed all my notes for new projects as I knit, as well as  little drawings that will be included as pics/sketches to help with the understanding of the process of re-creating them.  I have been really hesitant about changing the way I record the patterns, because the notebooks have become like little creative diaries for me over the last almost 6 years.  I can look over past notes, doodles and designs and remember everything that was happening in my life at the time. They’ve in a way, become good friends…it’s never easy to turn your back on a friend, right?  🙂  …so back to my goal: begin typing all the patterns into the computer, lol.

I think that’s quite enough for 30 days, don’t you?  September will have it’s own goals that will require re-knitting these projects into other sizes/colors, photography, step-outs, editing…etc. 

All in all, I think things are moving along quite nicely! 😀

Bethany~

ps:  Just out of curiosity, I went back and counted all of my original patterns and projects that have been scribbled down into the pages of my little design diaries and counted a total of…72!!!  No kidding…I really had no idea there were so many, lol! 

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