I'd rather be knitting

As in, I'd ALWAYS rather be knitting.

This hobby is like some sort of magical brain washing. It's wonderful and awful at the same time. I love it but don't hate it so don't get me wrong.

What I mean by awful is the need I feel to have so much yarn, every needle and then get even more again! I don't mind the time it takes up at all because I don't even notice. I just enjoy the soothing click click. I enjoy the challenge of trying something new and expanding my skills in this hobby+

Like working with DPNs on my newest project, a gorgeous little baby hat for Mandy's new baby girl. I'm so excited to give her this hat and hopefully soon after my first ever sweater.

DPNs are so much easier to work on than I thought they would be. Sure there is the awkwardness of holding them as you knit but it is very minor. There is the necessity to make the first stitch on the new round tighter but I seem to be doing ok on that too.

I'm just loving it all! Maybe I'll make baby socks then the sweater next...

Baby Girl Brant!

I'm so excited today and highly motivated too!

Mandy had the baby this morning at 7:36am!

Apparently her water broke around 7PM last night and 12 hours later... 6 lbs and 11oz of baby girl came into this world!

As soon as I found out I started on a hat LOL

I have big plans! I had been hoping to wait to start anything else new until the new Hogwarts term starts May 1st and perhaps be able to do baby things as class projects but oh well! It isn't as if I don't have a LOT of yarn to do almost any project that could come up. LOL

Wow I am having a crazy Deja-vu right now! Right down to the gauge swatch sitting next to me on the phone head set... The Start Trek trailer is new though... in my Deja-vu, I mean.

Well back to it! I want to have it started before I head out today! The hat, I mean.

Felting Alpaca

It worked!

I knit a nice little gauge swatch of the Estelle SuperFine Alpaca yarn and it felted so perfectly that I went out and bought 8 more hanks? Great colours too... I am so determined to make a nice purse.

My skin has cleared up completely too. As in the best skin I've ever had in my life!! And my hands are not swelly and itchy and the swelling has left my face and almost all of my neck! This may work out after all!

Allergy? To WOOL???!!!

It does make sense. My hands swell and throb and have been for a few weeks. Add in my compulsive face touching and BOOM swollen face, neck, etc etc

I am so sick of being swollen and uncomfortable. It's interfering with my life and love.

Today I bagged up my entire stash, pulled off the blanket from my couch and wiped a lot of things down with disinfecting clothes.

Here's hoping that helps.

Swelling

Oh man what a week. Really it started over 2 weeks ago when what seemed like a harmless under the skin pimple developed on my chin. Then last week, around Wednesday, I went to the doc to get the large swollen chin checked. Cellulitis... OK so Anti-biotics then. Big stinky pills every 6 hours with food. UGH!

Then Monday hits and I wake up with a puffy face. At first this is amuzing. Steph says I look younger. The doc says I need to go to the hospital and go on I.V. anti-biotics. So off I go. I spent the next 5 days with an I.V. line in my hand and regular visits to the hospital for more meds. But everyday I was getting worse and worse until I looked like an alien, a sick alien at that!


It was much less funny by Friday morning... Finally they determined that the anti-biotics weren't helping and took the I.V. out. Now I go to a dermatologist on Monday and will hopefully get some relief from the sandpaper skin and grotesque look.