Guest Knitting

Asalam Alaikum,
As a distraction from my own knitting which seems to be going at the pace of a snail here is some guest knitting content from my Sister-in-Laws-

First Shazia is knitting a vest, it is not from a pattern, I am working that out as we go because she wants something really complicated and to Quote the Harlot-"I know exactly what it is that I want, how it looks, how much yarn it takes, what needle it's knit on, and I end up not so much searching for a great pattern, as trying to locate the pattern I can see in my head."


Now I know that you are all saying that it doesn't look complicated at all, but that is only the back, the front is just barely started.


The next sister is makingEvangeline.

And the third is working on Chevette from Knitty.


The fourth is not currently knitting, but plans a purse in the near future when we can get back to Green Branch. She has made to date-one vest and a pair of Fetching for her self and a vest and matching pants for her sisters baby boy.

Mom, I still eat 'em this way!

Asalam Alaikum,
Sometimes the smallest things when you are young can have a very big, and sometimes strange effect on you later. When I was young, my mother would pack lunches for me to take to school, every time she packed an orange it looked some thing like this---


To this day I eat oranges like this. I am pretty sure that she did it so that I could peel them easier when I was little. Every single time I have an orange, I first carve a little face, then peel the whole thing. I love my mom!

See what I mean, something so small in my childhood, and it is such a happy memory for me.

KNITTING!!!!

My FIL's basic vest is still in the boring stockinette stage, so here is a pick of a pair of booties I made a couple of months back after seeing the pair that Charmaine had knitted up.

I saw the pattern, and it looked very interesting. I just used some leftover sock yarn to test it out so they don't exactly match (because I ran out of yarn) but I think that this will be a pattern that I will use again. The pattern is Magic Slippers

Also we went to Al Ain again, so more pics soon!

The Difference a Year makes...

Asalam Alaikum,
Have you ever wondered the difference a year makes?...if you've got a little one it can hit you hard.





And this is the Difference a Year makes--





This has been the most crazy/wonderful/awesome year of my life, Happy Birthday Little Man!!!!

Knitting Update and A Sad story

So I decided to knit up "Fetching" for my Mom, to match the "Fake Isle" hat already finished.

progress report---


I also started this dragon hat for my DH's nephew but i think i may frog it and do a different one in crochet, this one is not thick enough.


This part is a little sad and requires some backround-
my DH is from Pakistan, he used to live in Detroit with his cousin and his cousins wife, one time his mother came to visit and while there crocheted this-


A roughly 2'x1' rectangle of double crochet, Whatever it was intended to be, it was left unfinished with the DH's cousin when she returned to Pakistan. Fast forward 3 years, my DH moved to Florida, met and married me, we found out we were pregnant, tell his family, and a couple of months before the baby is born his mother passed away. we just left florida and are staying with the cousin and they find it, and the DH has now asked me to crochet around the edges to make it large enough for a baby blanket for our son. I am happy to do this so my little one can snuggle up with it while his daddy tells him about the grandmother he never got to meet. From my DH I have learned what a remarkable woman she was and regret very much never having had the chance to meet her.

Until next post-
Asalam Alaikum

Finally at least a little bit of knitting

So here is a picture of my son that we took the day we left the hospital. He is wearing the very first things that I ever knit and boy does he look small.

This is the pinwheel baby blanket, which was completed about two days before he was born.

It is really more of a lap blanket now, but that is what you get when, as an ambitious new knitter you choose to use size 4 needles. I really don't have a great deal of patience, and so it is only about 36" in diameter, I just stopped when I ran out of yarn. The border is crochet. I like the way it turned out, but if I ever make another, I will definitly use larger needles.

And now for some random pics of my little love and his daddy.

Wow, look at the love!
Mmmmmmm! Tasty, fingers!

Long time, no post

Wow, am I a bad blogger, I should have known this would happen given my lack of ability to keep an offline journal...oh well I just have to try harder i guess.

I have been reading a lot of knit blogs, (I am so addicted) and stumbled onto this---

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Her Eminence the Very Viscountess Eva the Ineffable of Chortling Chesterton Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

Strange but fun, in other news I have completed the "first official socks"...they are not really socks, more like house slippers made in the way of socks, just to test the waters of sock knitting, and ya know what, the water is fine come on in! I know I have a long way to go til I can whip up a half-way decent pair but so far, so fun.

I also finished the back of my dh's vest... dratted thing...cheap yarn...you really should be careful what you say..."of course I'll knit you a vest dear and you can even pick the yarn"

Oh, and I also knitted a hat for my aunt, from knitty- a tam. It was so fun to work with the two colors and see the pattern appear that I finished very quickly. Now all thats left is to mail it to her...because we have moved! Or at least started the process of moving, we left nice sunny florida to visit my DH's cousin(Michigan of all places). then we are off to Boston to see my folks, then the big one, we hop on a plane and take a very long flight to Abu Dhabi where we will most likely stay on a semi permenant basis, to live with my DH's family.

To return to the subject of socks for a moment, I have discovered that there is a yarn store that is exactly 1.7 miles from where we are staying right now in Michigan and the DH has promised to take me there. I have never been to a yarn store, as the only ones near to us before the move were a good distance away. I am so excited!! I want to buy some nice sock yarn and make some matching socks for the DH and my adorable new son.

Well, that was a long post, and if I can stick to my resolution to be a better blogger then a new post will follw shortly and may also include pictures.

until next post,
Asalam Alaikum

In which i boast of my infants' many talents

Asalam Alaikum,
been a while eh?
i have been soooooo busy with the little man that i have not posted in a long while(and am currently typing one handed-hence the lack of cap, punc, etc.)
he is not so little, just turned 7 weeks on monday! and hes growing so fast,
here is a list of stuff he can do-
coo
say aaggoo
put his hand in mouth
smile (socially...it is not gas people, he smiles when you smile)

and today for the very first time he rolled over, he did it when i turned around for one second, i think it was totally accidental but whatever!

well he is getting hungry so i gotta go, hopefully i can get a knitting progress update up tomorrow!

My Son is here!!!!!

Asalam Alaikum,

So I have not posted in a while because we had our baby, he is the most adorable child ever, and i know all mothers say that but oh well, he is very cute...

I also have almost finished the pinwheel baby blanket, all that is left is to weave in the ends and block it a little(the edges curl a little). pics of that to come soon.

In Which You Learn Of My Roots

I love my parents, they are really great, two of the most wildly different people you will ever meet, but whatever works for you right?

My mother, what can I say, she i think is the one i take after most, we look alike, think alike, sound alike(i've been told), and have more interests in common than you can shake a stick at(as mom would say "why you would want to shake a stick at them i dont know" i completely agree with her on this one). She is a great mom, when we were little, in the days before they really put kids books on tape she would record herself reading them for us, so we could follow along in our favorite books, i have so many memories like this that just make me cry sometimes. she gave us all(me +2 brothers) so much love and encouragement, and still does that it amazes me. i am only now just beginning to understand now that i am going to have the soon-to-be son.

Dad...my dad is one of the most intelligent people that you will ever meet, and also one of the most hard working people i know. he is a stationary engineer, in fact he is the Chief Engineer of One Beacon Street in Boston, it is one of the tallest buildings in the city with 37 floors. this is my dad's dream job, he worked there a long time ago and has returned and he loves it. During my childhood my dad was not always able to give us too much of his time as he worked very hard to support our family, sometimes working 12+hour shifts at his job, but we all know that he loves us very much and that he was working so hard for us. i think that the way that i am most like my dad is his sense of humor(it is very quirky, and not many people get us).

both of my parents have blogs, that i have linked to if anyone is interested,they can sometimes be a little sporadic (as a side note, my father does have a strange sense of humor-which you should really keep in mind if you read his blog).

I also have two younger brothers, Shaun, who is only 21 months younger than me, and Joseph, who is 9 years younger than me. i love both of my brothers, but we are all very different, i am the crafty quiet one, Shaun is the tough one, he is so tough he decided on one of the toughest and most dangerous careers, he is a Marine. the sad thing about Shaun is that (for some reason we have yet to find out) he has estranged himself for all of us, it really hurts my parents, who always worry, they dont know where he is if he is ok, if he has a family, or if he is wounded.
We all love him very much.

And Joseph, joe joe joe.....he is a bundle of energy, constantly moving and doing something, he is a huge video game freak(aren't we all just a little bit?), and he has the biggest heart of anyone....anywhere, he loves everyone, no matter what, he is just able to get along with everyone, all the time...most of his hobbies don't fall into the same category that mine would, he just cant sit still... i don't think that he will take up knitting anytime soon as it is not exactly something you can do while moving at 90mph, but we will see, stranger things have happened.

and that is my immediate family, it is just when i read it all , we are all so different

i promise to post something about my craftiness, very very soon...
until the next post-
Asalam Alaikum