The end of May

Here we are at the end of May 2010. It is crazy how fast this year is going.
We had a great Memorial Day weekend. I took the kids to the local Amusement park for a few hours. This is the first year we got Season Passes. And of course they went swimming at our neighborhood pool every day.

While at the pool I did manage to knit some. So, I finished the sock I needed to for May.

First was Spring Forward. A Knitty pattern.



And Skew. Also a Knitty pattern.



I was also able to do a Baby quilt this week for someone at my husband's work.

Completion

I have finally gotten a few things completed.

My back yard hill. It took a few weeks as life often interrupts. But after weeding, planting 36 day lilies, 3 rose bushes and a few other plants. Here it is.





A pair of Socks: My own pattern, Snow Petals, in Knit Picks Stroll Tonal.


A Cowl, my own pattern, Karen. Using Knit Picks Gloss.



I am still working on my April socks for Sock Knitters Anonymous. I took a yarn dying class last Saturday at the local LYS. I will have to get pictures of those. And I started the Cookie A mystery socks for Sock Knitters Anonymous for May.

In the near future I will try to get pictures of all of these.

Errors

I hate errors. But, sadly, they are a fact of life. Especially in patterns. I was doing my Snow Petal socks again and found another error. I made a mistake on row one of the set up chart. So for all of you that already downloaded it here is the correct setup chart. There is only a change on row 1.



If you have not already downloaded it, I have made corrections to the pattern and it is now up on Ravelry.

Two things

Sorry, it has been so long since I posted. Spring has come early here and I have been trying to get our yard in order. I have a problem area in the back yarn that needs quite a lot of TLC.
Here is the front.


And here is the back.


You can see I have a lot of work ahead of me. Even after four days of work the yard still has another week or so of work ahead. I am trying to plant more perennials so I do not have to spend so much time every year.

The two pairs of socks I was working on for March are now complete.

Atlantis




Tea and Scandal

Halvsies

I have half of two different sock patterns completed.

Atlantis, by Janel Laidman from The Enchanted Sole.



And one from the Solid Socks group Mystery on Ravelry. It is now called Tea and Scandal socks by Stephanie or (VeryBusyMonkey)

Easter time

We had a wonderful Easter with our family. Saturday was fun with my in-law's. Unfortunately I forgot my camera and did not get any pictures. It was also raining, so not the best time for pictures.

Sunday, on the other hand, was beautiful if a bit chilly. We had our egg hunt outside and the kids loved it.

Here is my daughter hiding eggs.



And here are my sons and nephew hunting them down.



It is nice to have two little ones who still really enjoy this kind of thing. They have so much fun with the hunt and truly enjoy the candy afterward.



And it couldn't be Easter without flowers. We can always count on my mother to have plenty of them. Here are some of the beauty of the season.

Other Things

I spent the weekend working on nonknitting related items.

I painted my bathroom on Friday. It really needed it. The previous owners tried to use color throughout the house but picked colors just a shade to gray for my tastes.

Here is the before:



And here is the after:


Saturday I did make it to Sweater Club at Yarns and Fabrications for the first time. So I guess I did get 2 whole hours to knit this weekend.

The other big Saturday event was to take my daughter to get an Ipod Touch. She saved and saved and did many jobs around our house. She was so excited. I got one too because I am trying to consolidate some of my electronics. I now have the touch to use for my music and calendar and address book. I have to say it is very fun and easy to use, not that I have everything transferred over. The kids of course had to download many apps and play with it more than me.

Sunday I had to work on some baby quilts. I quilted two and got another one loaded on the frame. Sorry, no pictures, maybe it will be sunny tomorrow.

Tonight I am going to finish the Snow Petal socks and finish writing up the pattern so I can get it out to test knit tomorrow.