gaysknits

gee he looks...

swell in that hat!  the little guy wow...he's getting so big and growing so tall and becoming so grown up...just...wow when did that happen?  i didn't know that when you go to the first grade they give you a pill that turns you nto something that you weren't the summer before.  now i know.

this is the swell cap which is supposed to have earflaps but when it came right down to it the little guy who has a mind of his own and has a flair for fashion too i might add nixed the earflaps. he chose the yarn and i couldn't have done a better job.  i was having trouble making them look seamless so i had decided to add them later anyway so when he said camo hat...blue waves...no earflaps  it was simply finished before it's time.

it was done a bit sooner than i anticipated any way because it was a pretty quick knit and it looks adorable on him errrrr what i meant to say was he looks super cool and mighty hip in it! happy trick or treat and don't be like me and eat too much caaaandy.  later...love   g

today turned out to be...

a much more gratifying day than yesterday was. up early. had coffee. went to the store for a few things...my latest craving is for noodle bowls...go figure.  friend phil came over with his monster snake and he, the guy and i fed about 120 feet of the thing down the drain and voila....water is running freely again and no trenches were dug in my driveway, yard or basement...whew! any way the two of them are off delivering wine and me...well i'm strutting about on the deck in gaia.

on the deck in the summer like sunshine and warm as could be temperatures i might add.  there are lots more pics of this on ravelry too! 

it is hard to believe it was cold and frosty just a week ago.  the guy and nephew and riding pal  will probably get a motorcycle ride in this week while the weather is nice and the leaves are gorgeous but i'll be working the rest of the week. next weekend i hope to be doing a little work in my yard and since the youngladygrandaughter is now in possession of her driving permit maybe a drive or two around town will be in order.

mean while knitting  on the purple bliss scarf continues and i continue working on smalls in the hopes that i'll have lots of small xmas gifts this year and pass the time before the snow flies around here.  later...love   g 

it's the light...

shining through the fall leaves that makes everything seem bright and wonderful even when nothing is.

 

the guy and i have been unsucccesfully snaking the drain in the basement for two days and tomorrow a friend is coming to our rescue with his plumbers knowlege and his electric snake. thank god. i don't think this is the end of this saga either. i think the end of this saga will be when the driveway and the basement floor are dug up and my world is turned upside down. for now we hope to get the water moving again as a step towards solving the problem.   back to the light, how can one be unhappy when everything is glowing.

 

it doesn't hurt that the man at the tool rental place took pity on us and gave us four hours of free rental on  a power snake which we couldn't even get into the drain hole and it wasn't for lack of trying either.   hell i even stuck my rubber gloved arm down there to find the hole which impressed the tool rental guy so much he didn't charge me.  or maybe it was that he thought i was insane. or possibly that he figured he was going to get enough miles out of our story in the re telling  of it that it was worth it to let me have the damn snake for free.

 

ah well it didn't cost us anything but our day and it was extremely wonderful of the tool guy to do that for us and the guy got a free pair of work gloves out of the deal which he can wear to clean out the other side of the garage gutter and install the gutter guard.  i was hoping to paint the garage eave but...presto chango. after our plumbing adventure we raked and bagged the rest of the pods from the honey locust tree and walked the dogs for a little bit and called it a day but not before the reflection in my windshield of the branches of the very yellow maple tree in the front yard caught my eye.

i didn't notice all the wonderful reflections in the truck until later and ooh so nice...i'm glad i washed the truck today.  i took a few pics of  fall in my  yard.  i took a much deserved shower and am minutes away from a glass of wine and a movie on tv. i never took new pics of gaia but i will. she turned out really well i think. i'll post pics of her as soon as i come up out of the sewer but for now wine...easy chair...movie...maybe even a nap. later...love   g 

i'm gonna have to...

take better pictures of gaia but she is completed and i love her.  on to the next project...keep in mind i am putting off knitting a christmas stocking for one of the boy oh boys but i'll get to it before christmas don't you worry.  next up is some purple bliss.

 

i bought this debbie bliss cashmerino in lavendar to make a cowl for bob's wife but in the end he decided he'd rather have a scarf than a cowl...some people have no use for imagination  nor can they stray from their comfort zone and had i known that i would've ordered a chunky bulky yarn but i didn't know and i didn't order any so necessity being the mother of invention has caused me to knit this holding two strands of aran together.  i really have no use for purple yarn other than for this item so it would go to waste otherwise and that would be a sin because this yarn is sinfully soft to the touch and absolutely perfect for a scarf!  as an additional bonus this project is great television knitting to because it is a no brainer and as others have said you'd have to be really intoxicated to screw this up so drunk television knitting it is! the length of this is to be determined by how much yarn i have!  later...love   g

i am fast approaching...

an fo.  can you believe it? something other than gloves or hats to boot! not that this is  anything other than a glorified small. this is gaia.

it is one of the sexy knitter club selections for this kal and it is a glorfied small. it is constructed from one long rectangle of ribbing knit with less than a skein of malabrigo worsted and less than a ball of rowan kidsilk haze held together...on size 13's...can you say quick!  it has been steam blocked...a process that i am not crazy for but for a change i was following instructions who'd have guessed i was capable of that! anyway i knit the size small and almost wish i would have knitt it longer and wider so as to get a little more length down the back and  a little looser sleeve opening. it fits fine though because fortunatly i have skinny little arms to fit in the small little arm holes.

 

i knit this  in two days so it's not like i can't make another by the weekend!  i took the third day to crochet the edge and block it and today i was anxious to try her on so i basted it togther with scrap yarn so i could do that and it happened to be daylight out side so a photo was in order. in addition i think i may have pinned it together wrong so it may get some tweaking yet. thought you'd like to know! later...love   g