Hardly any knitting again – I hate when life gets in the way of my knitting!
I really want to finish Gigi now, so that I have nothing on the needles when my Everyday Cardigan arrives, and yet I don’t seem to find the time to do it. I’m sure it will pick up again.
We rent our home, and the real estate is coming by on Tuesday to inspect the property. We’ll have to hide the rabbit and all evidence of her, and hope that they don’t notice any of the results of her destructobunny antics. So I should be cleaning, but I can’t really be bothered doing that either.
But I feel guilty that I’m not cleaning, so despite the fact that it’s 10.30pm, I think I’ll go clean the bathroom!

Hardly any knitting today, was busy with housework and appointments and such.
Totally offtopic, I have come to the sad realisation that we are now on the On-Ramp of the Hormone Highway To Hell.
My once loving, kind, sweet, happy, darling daughter has turned into a snarling, snapping, growling, tearful demon wraith from the ninth level of Hell.
While I’m sure we all went through it at some stage, I certainly don’t remember being this bad, although I’m not going to ask my mother, as she’ll probably fall over from laughing so hard. I have 2 sisters – and 2 brothers. I’m not quite sure how she put up with all of us at once.
So I’ll hug my Em and reassure her and love her, and bite my tongue hard. I try to get her to knit a little each night, hoping that it will calm and balance her a little. But it usually ends with her snarling at her project and everything else in frustration.
I’ll knit through it though 🙂
And for those of you who asked, Peace Fleece day (thankyou Sandy!) is May 31. 🙂 Lonestar for dinner, Chocolate Brownie for dessert. Yum.

Picture me doing a Happy Dance!!
I know what I’m getting for my Birthday!! 🙂
All those not so subtle hints paid off! And making Emily memorise peacefleece.com, peacefleece.com, peacefleece.com
In Blueberry Borscht no less!!
And I know this because I directed his mouse over the order page 😉

There’s my Gigi body progress today. The colour is reasonably close, perhaps a little too blueish.
I’ve done the first decrease in the body. However, this afternoon I was reading through the instructions and I think I’ve hit upon a possible problem. The sweater is knit at 20sts/28 rows = 4″.
Rightio.
I am knitting the 42″ size. The body pattern has a total of 95 rows, including rib, plain knit rounds, decrease rounds and increase rounds. Fine, but then it says “Knit even until piece measures 12.25 inches.”
Hmmmm….. 95 rows at 7 rows per inch. This mathematics does not compute. By my calculations, I should be at about 13.5″ by the time I just finish the body pattern as written.
I think I shall just continue to knit the pattern as it says, and see what happens. If it doesn’t fit properly, and the decreases and increases make a shape that doesn’t fit my body (not unlikely 😉 I shall see what the Knitalong has to say. Or maybe I’ll email Bonne Marie.
Maybe I should actually knit the body instead of just talking about it. 🙂

Yay! I have a pair!!!
Of sleeves, of course – what did you think I meant? Socks? 😉
Gigi now has 2 sleeves on holders, waiting only for a body. Which I should cast on.
Emily wants a fluffy bag now. Which reminded me that I had bought some Cascade 220 and some pink eyelash months ago, when helloknitty.com had the Cascade on special. And I bought it to make her a fluffy bag and some fluffy mittens. I’m using a pattern from Felt One, Knit Too, that the wonderful Jill sent to me. The bag has a different colour at the top, but I’ll just use eyelash where the colour change occurs. So I cast on for that. I also still have DH’s sock on the needles. I’ve done a quarter of the first sock. He won’t be getting that anytime soon. I have received 3 beautiful lots of sock yarn as gifts to make myself socks lately, and I want to knit those instead. And I’m eyeing some more on eBay. I’m trying to be strong!
And Charlotte is calling. But I’ve convinced the family to buy me an Everyday Cardigan Kit for my birthday. I better not change my mind now 🙂