Tuesday, June 1, 2010

My first knitted sweater

This is my first knitted sweater.  I chose to make a baby sweater because it would be quicker and not as involved if I screwed something up.  I think it came out pretty cute.  I had a little trouble attaching the sleeves eavenly but got them to at least look good and be wearable.  I tried a new way (to me) of seaming the garment.  I used a crochet hook and slip-stiched the pieces together.  I love how it worked and will be using this in the future.  I got the idea from a tutorial on how to reclaim the yarn from store bought sweaters.

I've started the actual quilting on my quilt, am slowly working on crochet socks, and have started a Christmas latch-hook project.  I'll post pics once I actually finish this stuff (which could be awhile.)

I've been pretty busy for work lately.  I took a trip to CA and one to OR last month.  This month I'll be going back to OR, making a stop in the Boise area to see family for a weekend, and then going to the Head Start Research Conference in DC.  If anybody is going the American Indian Alaska Native HSRC will be doing a poster presentation on Tuesday of the conf :o)

I also squeezed in a trip last month to Kemmerer to see my brother.  He is doing pretty well.  I snapped a pic of him with his cast on his nose but haven't uploaded it yet.  My vote is still that he doesn't get a new Harley but I don't think my vote counts.

Hopefully everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend.  Ours was pretty busy.  I had hoped to have a calm, do nothing weekend after all of the work travel but it didn't work out that way.  Friday night I got to hang out with Linda.  It was nice to sit and talk and just hang out. Saturday we ran errands and got new phones (Jerry & I both got the Motorola Droid).  Then we went and played poker.  I was the first person to go out (kinda) :-P.  Others actually were out before me but they all bought back in.  Jerry went out right before being in the money.  Sunday we went up to Ft Collins and saw Maile baptized.  It was great being with family for the morning.  Then we came home cleaned and went out to dinner with Fran and Tim.  It was a lot of fun but the restaurant was a first and last time choice.  Finally yesterday we went to a bbq.  Now I'm back at work and wondering what happened to my long weekend. :o)