Doomed

The second mitten was doomed from the start, apparently. After spending hours untangling the mess that Maddie made of my yarn, then balling it back up again (into two balls because somehow she broke it off somewhere in the middle - I'm blaming her, anyway), I set to work again on the mitten. I had to frog what was left of mitten #2 because I couldn't figure out where I had been in the pattern when all H-E-double hockeysticks broke loose. So I frogged the mitten and began again. I've finished the mitten and I won't even disturb you by posting pics of it - somehow it is considerably smaller than mitten #1. Hmmm....maybe it will block out. I worked on weaving the ends in, during a particularly harrowing evening of two little boys who didn't want to and wouldn't go to sleep (and instead spent two hours annoying the you-know-what out of each other and their mother!) I barely gave it a thought when I weaved the ends in at the top of the mitten until I finished and went to turn it right-side-out. WHAT!?!?!?! It was already right side out. Yes, I had woven and snipped and it looks downright ugly.

What to do?

I'm going to order another ball of yarn and try again.

In the meantime, I'm working on a sock, and some dishcloths, and making my own DPN's and I am going to start on John's London Beanie. The Purl Bee has a pattern for an adorable (and I do mean adorable) little girl's dress (and you're right - I have no little girls - but I know some!). The pattern is for crochet though, and I don't crochet. Yet.....

Anyone want a cat?

Just kidding - kind of. I love my cat. She's a part of the family. She also apparently loves Baby Alpaca yarn, so really, how can I not love her? (She never messed with my acrylic yarns this way.)

I was so excited to get up this morning and take pictures for you of the Women's Open Palm Mitten. (Yes, just one mitten - I know what you are thinking. Give me time. I'm a busy woman.) I worked the mitten in Knit Picks Andean Treasure, 100% Baby Alpaca, colorway Midnight. It is soft and blue and green and lovely and -- can you tell? -- I love it! Little did I know that Maddie would love it as well.

I'm sure I placed the whole caboodle snug inside it's ziploc resting place last night before bed. OK, so maybe I forgot to seal it. Really though, I would have thought that at Maddie's age (nine) she would know better. She's like a kid. And these kids, I tell you...

Where was I? Oh yes...instead of waking up and pulling out my prized mitten for pictures--Instead of that...I awoke to find this lovely scene. Grrrr! I then spent at least 30 minutes trying to un-knot the whole mess, while Maddie looked on (she can be so callous sometimes). See that smug look on her face. I realize now, after looking at the pictures, she does know better, she just simply does not care.

See if I knit anything for her.

PS - the fact that my pattern (see last pic) has a picture of a cat on it is not lost on me.