my own little basket of shame, part one

I just joined a Ravelry group called Basket of Shame to list and finish unfinished knitting. This is my first sweep at collecting everything that needs to be finished.

ballband baby blanket, 45% complete















pink toddler's sweater/jacket, 70% complete















christmas stocking, 35% complete

taupe child's chullo, 95% complete

skinny christmas stocking, 75% complete

gold small chullo, 95% complete

doll's christmas hat, 95% complete

babette blanket, 15% complete

rose child's chullo, 90% complete

stretchy socks, 15% complete

brown child's chullo, 25% complete

Playing Ketchup/ Let's Start Over

Some Christmas knitting...Jill's girls in the chullos i designed and knit. The whole bunch of bananas.
Last week it was so warm and nice that I dragged Mom out to start the garden. We planted lettuce, spinach, mesclun mix, swiss chard, and 2 raspberry plants.

Milking-it-for-all-its-worth Dog on Thurs

Last week I took Puddin for her yearly shots and tests. Happy, healthy and back down to her healthy weight. I mentioned to the vet that she was drinking more than normal. Blood work all looks good. We couldn't get urine since she had donated all her samples to the lawn in front of the clinic. Early the next morning I'm following Pud around the yard with an empty pie tin. You know. Later I get a call to pick up meds and talk to the vet. Her urine pH is "off the charts" and full of crystals. We get antibiotics and an acidifier. He thinks she's too young to have "the malady which must not be named" so we should assume its a uti and just watch her.



Any ideas what he's worried about but won't say?






Puddin thinks it is unfair for non-sick dogs to get the lap.

She retaliates by ripping out the head of Trixie's bear toy and stealing Gus' bed.

Seems fair.

Good Dogs Gone Bad on Thursday?

Puppy incarceration. So sad. If Trixie had a tin cup she would be raking it back and forth against the bars.

Wait....that's not jail! It's a day at the spa. Trixie has a new do thanks to Gus' constant ear-sucking. A sassy short look for summer.

Puddin is more the home-spa type. I think a stick in a wading pool counts as a retreat. It also counts as a bath.

spinning mohair loops and faux pearls

Long ago I spun a mohair single and plied with a thin black silk. It was awful. I found it recently and made this. First I un-ply plied it with an ugly batt thick n' thin single, really loosely. The mohair unspun and looped. Then I re-plied the other direction with another silk single threaded with beads. I'm calling it "low tide".

More ugly batt spinning

From the mostly blue batt. A slightly felted single at ~14wpi...I'm not done with it yet, just documenting its journey.

Knitt'n & Spin'n

A child's hat for Warm Woolies. Lately I only knit at work or in bed, so my projects are limited to thoses w/out patterns to learn. The top isn't really pointed, the jar underneath is.
My second attempt at coils. Kool-Aid pink lincoln wool over handful-of-marigolds lincoln wool. I keep finding little balls of singles that I wound in balls and forgot. Usually because there was never a plan for it, and I needed to clear the spindle or wheel for something else. This is how it looked right off the niddy-noddy.

Here it is after I set it with a bit of steam.

Now I think I should stop trying to coil over my own singles and use thread instead. It may be the only way I'll get continuous coils.