It's a lot harder to update this now that they've blocked Vox at work

But here I am nonetheless, making arguably less than ideal use of my time during a vacation day, but it is what it is.  I should be cleaning the house, or packing... especially packing since we leave for Disneyworld in seventeen hours or so, but I can't seem to be bothered to do that quite yet.

It has been forever since I've updated, mostly due to this little guy over here on the right.  Little Mr. E was born on 06 September 2007.  I think I forgot how little time one gets to herself when a newborn (especially a nursling) is in the

little mr. e

house.  It's all good, though.

While sewing is out the window right now (too much to set up, not kid friendly once it's set up, plus it's not really something that I can handle being interrupted at) I have been knitting up a storm.  Mostly small items, but that's fine -- I've finished several and that's made me feel all accomplished.

little r's hat

I made this hat here on the left for Little R.  He's my "hat kid", he loves hats of all shapes and sizes.  Mr. G picked up the yarn (Patons Shetland Chunky... certainly not my first choice but then I wasn't there) on clearance at Michael's and Little R asked me if I'd make him a hat with it.  Who am I to say no?  I didn't follow any particular pattern, just cast on the amount I thought I'd need at the brim and worked my way up, doing evenly spaced decreases every other row when I thought the hat was big enough.  It's definitely a close-fitting cap and I'll be lucky if he gets the remainder of the winter out of it, but eh... it took me like five hours to knit and the yarn was all of a dollar.  If he gets a few wears out of it, it's all good.

Mr. E's sock

And I am working on a pair of cabled baby socks for Little Mr. E.  The pattern is Four Seasons Baby Socks (PDF link) from Classic Elite Yarns, and I'm knitting it in some Missions Falls 1824 wool I bought two years ago when there was talk of it being discontinued and I got a ton of it cheap.  The color doesn't match a stitch in E's wardrobe that I know of, and for all I know the cabled ribbing won't fit over his fat little legs anyway, but I certainly am enjoying knitting them.  :)