Finished Project Alert!
Woohoo! Em has a new poncho 🙂

Specifications
Pattern: Bonne Marie’s Lacy Poncho (Downsized a little, though)
Yarn: Some unbanded anonymous Jade Green 5ply (Sportweight) wool, bought from eBay
Needles: 4mm Addi Turbos
Didn’t it come out well? Who knew that fringing a little poncho would take over three hours?? Anyway, it’s done.
I love Em in this colour, I should make her more green things. 🙂
Speaking of Em, she’s in my bed right now, sick, snivelling and coughing, and watching DVD’s. Poor kid. She better keep her germs to herself 😉

Okay, I think we’re over The Sandwich Incident.
However, I’m thinking of taking bets on how long it takes for Em to turn her room into a cesspool again. 😉
I’ve been busy, busy, busy knitting!
Dulaan goodies 🙂

More hats, more mittens. I have another pair of mittens on the needles right now.
And I have another FO to show, but it took longer to finish than I expected – pics tomorrow!

I thought I had seen everything. Really.
Although Emily is nearly 12 (13 days to go, I was reminded this morning!), I thought there wasn’t much she could surprise me with anymore. Anyone who believes that the angelic child pictured here previously could not possibly keep her room a pigsty, read on.
I am still cleaning her bedroom. I spent 2 hours in there yesterday, and cleaned up the floor and the wardrobe and drawers. No wonder she has no clean underwear. They’re all shoved into any old drawer that has room, never in her underwear drawer.
Fine, I dealt with that. I may be a neat freak, but I can understand that not everyone else is, no matter how frustrated I get in the morning when we are running late because Em can’t find anything.
So I did the wardrobe and the floor yesterday, and headed back in this morning to do under the bed and the toybox.
Under the bed was not so bad. Odd dirty clothes under there, a gazillion odd dirty socks and the like. One biscuit, which infuriates me, however, I just tossed it out, and finished with Under The Bed.
Then I opened the toybox. The first thing that hit me was the smell. I checked that Twinkie was reclining in the hallway watching me, because I thought she may have crawled into the toybox and died, the smell was that bad.

I think that this may have once been a sandwich. I think it was from the end of year school picnic. In mid December. I can only reason that out due to the other crap that was also in the bag.
I’m afraid to delve deeper, but I must. In rubber gloves, I think 😉

It has occured to me that the items I’m knitting for the Dulaan project will not be warm enough for a Mongolian winter. Here in Sydney, the winter mornings we complain bitterly about rarely get colder than 4C. (35F) I cannot even comprehend cold weather of -40F.
However, I hope my hats and mittens will be useful anyway. Maybe Autumn wear.
I finished the first stripey hat and hope I have enough yarn for another. A great deal of this leftovers knitting is done with great hope that there is enough yarn to finish the items I start!
I don’t think there will be much knitting today. I’m heading into Em’s room to try to establish a clear path fromt he door to the bed. I’ve given up on the room looking like anything less than a bomb site.

Good Lord, where did the last few days go??
I did Canteen Duty at school for the first time ever on Monday 🙂
These kids musn’t get fed at home – as soon as the ball goes, they’re there, at the canteen, in line to get food. (Including my own kid, I might add!) Feeding time at the zoo is calmer 😉
So that was Monday, gone and over!
But I’ve been knitting – but not on Satin. I started Satin on the weekend, did the ribbing on the back, then put it aside and haven’t touched it since.
I’ve been Dulaan-ing 🙂
Little mittens!

Pink superwash with some pink fluff on the edges. Half a ball from the leftovers box. I guesstimated the size, knit them up with the assistance of Ann Budd’s Handy Book of Patterns, and had about a foot of yarn left. I spent the last few rows of the second mitten sweating on whether I would have enough yarn to finish them.
Pink Hat!

Leftover Lambs Pride Bulky. Jill sent me some to make some felted slippers for Em ages ago. The slippers didn’t work out, but Em likes the hat. Tough luck, kidlet, a poor, cold small child will be wearing it 🙂
I really liked knitting with the LP though.
And I did a hat from the leftover Woolease from DH’s hat last week.
I found three half balls left from a hat I knit DH last year. I’m going to knit a stripey hat, using the jogless stripes techniaue from the six sox stashbuster socks. Using up some leftovers feels good.
Em’s poncho remains unseamed and unfringed. I’m enjoying little things right now. Instant gratification 🙂