Whoo Hoo!

Nic got a letter saying that my visa is in Buffalo. I'm ecstatic about this.

Wow it's new freakin'year.

Yeah Happy New Year's a bit late. I forgot I had this blog. I wonder if I should just consolidate my blogs into one thing. Except I have no idea how to do that. I finished all of my gifts in time for Christmas for this side of the border and I'm alnost done my mom's socks. I need to put them up on ravelry. Things are good otherwise. i got an extension on visitor's record on the 30st of December. Nothing like doing things at the last minute. Réal was wondefully helpful with that. He can charm anyone including border guards. My paperwork was sent in November and sent back in December. We were missing all of two things. Nic's sponosor questionaire and pictures of me. I had my 4 pics in with the application, but only 3 of them were in the envelope, the 4th was on my perm. res. application. So I took that one off the app. and took 4 more pics. Now they can't say they don't have enough pics.

That pic is of Nic holding Louis-Alexandré.

Knitty Kitty

Well I made it to the montrealknits meeting last night and I had a blast. The ladies there were able to tell about several good yarn stores in and around Montreal. I brought some of my finished pieces that I had laying around, and they were well liked. I brought my wrist warmers, and the baby hat I made for Jordana for Christmas. I found out that the pattern for the wrist warmers comes from a book called Last Minute Gifts. They also liked the entrelac scarf I'm working on, and said to look on the net for spiral hat patterns if I get stuck making this spiral rib hat. I may try to hit the Sunday night meeting too if we don't go to St. Hyacinthe. Right now I'm working on a pair of socks for my mom and I've already turned the heel so that makes me feel accomplished. Now to find a sweater pattern for this dk yarn I was able to get last night from Mona. It's quite soft and I really like it. I'll have to post the name later because I don't have the ball infront of me.

Yesterday when I was working on the socks my cat Mona laid down on the skein. She's been helping me knit. I'll have to post the pic later of her with my yarn.

Knittings

I've been knitting for awhile now and I decided that I'm going to devote a blog to it. And I'm actually going to write in this one. I've been neglecting my other blogs a bit. I may just end up using this as my main blog.

So anyway here is what I'm working on. A scarf, a wrap, and a hat. The scarf is a men's muffler pattern from Leisure Arts, the wrap is from the Encyclopedia of knitting, and the hat started from a pattern but I'm now just making it up as I go. The stitch is called spiraled ribbing, and it comes from a pattern for wrist warmers that a friend put up on Cheezfrenz. I orginally was going to follow a hat pattern on a handout but decided I might as well try this on my own. So we'll see how it turns out.