So it looks like I'm making this week's Yarn Along post do double duty. It's interesting how, when I'm at my busiest, I have the strongest urge to craft, write and create. It's been hard keeping up at work (I'm a freelance writer with a steady gig for a great client) because of my nusing babe, and I've been using nights and weekends to catch up and stay afloat. (Does he really have to nurse every hour and a half? The answer is yes, and he has the rolls to prove it.)
When I should be coming up for air, I just want to make stuff. But there are kids to care for and play with, meals to cook, a husband to spend time with, and then I should be getting to bed earlier... I'm lucky that I have a husband that shares heavily in the duties around here. But I still pine for more free time. I know that someday all I'll have is time, so I'm trying to shake it off. The creating is happening, just really slowly.
I'm coming up with a new sock design that is a women's version of my Handsome Men's Slipper Socks:
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And have been slowly working on my first sewing pattern. You may have read about a silly little contest on my Facebook page to guess what the pattern will be, based on a photo of the pattern shape. Sally guessed it right -- it's going to be an owl lovey! -- and she will get the very first copy of the pattern when it's ready. Yay, Sally!!
Time to go rest. And maybe knit a little bit. Who knows, maybe sometime during 2013 I'll be able to release a new pattern! [I wrote this last night but posted this morning, oops!]
Happy knitting, my friends.
Kelly
When I should be coming up for air, I just want to make stuff. But there are kids to care for and play with, meals to cook, a husband to spend time with, and then I should be getting to bed earlier... I'm lucky that I have a husband that shares heavily in the duties around here. But I still pine for more free time. I know that someday all I'll have is time, so I'm trying to shake it off. The creating is happening, just really slowly.
I'm coming up with a new sock design that is a women's version of my Handsome Men's Slipper Socks:
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And have been slowly working on my first sewing pattern. You may have read about a silly little contest on my Facebook page to guess what the pattern will be, based on a photo of the pattern shape. Sally guessed it right -- it's going to be an owl lovey! -- and she will get the very first copy of the pattern when it's ready. Yay, Sally!!
Time to go rest. And maybe knit a little bit. Who knows, maybe sometime during 2013 I'll be able to release a new pattern! [I wrote this last night but posted this morning, oops!]
Happy knitting, my friends.
Kelly
Wow every hour and a half? I've heard of that, but we did not experience that. You must feel like you're burning the candle at both ends!
ReplyDeleteMy last babe was one of those every hour and a halfsies... it does end eventually. At 17 months his nursing has dwindled to only 4 or 5 times a day. Which really isn't that often, comparatively. :)
ReplyDeleteI completely understand your need to create when life feels hectic. I'm the same. I can't wait to see the new sock pattern.
Bless your heart you must be beyond exhausted at night but you certainly have a full life :)
ReplyDeleteRobyn
I always had a thing for these yarning but never made it right.
ReplyDeleteGreat work. I have tried few times and I couldn’t make it right but my grandmother is an expert in that.
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