You Go Girl!

Little do they know that this is actually basically happening in blogland already.

Go figure.

And now for some updates.

Knitting update:  I've got a sleeve and a half of Autumn Rose.  I love the thing more every day, and no longer worry that it won't look good on my non-waifish body because Anne looks positively smokin' in hers.  There's lots of detail on my ravelry project page that I will reproduce here when I have some photos to share.  I'm in that project-love phase where none of my other projects matter.  MS3 might get UFO'd.  I love it, but don't want to knit the wing, and knitting the same part over and grafting doesn't make me all excited anymore.  Dunno.  We'll see.  The shetland triangle is the only one that has a chance with me right now.  Well, there are always socks.

Vacation update: What do you call a vacation with cold weather, a blown transmission halfway there, republican in-laws, and a bed in a damp basement?  Yeah, me either.  On the upside, we did have one and a half nice hot days at the lake (the other half of that day we had to drive 4 hours, oops), a fun day at Story Land, and some good knitting/reading time.  I'll try not to whine too loudly.  Being back isn't as brutal as I feared, so that's a relief.  Next vacation: December.  With in-laws.  Then another in February...also with in-laws.  (I do love them, but hmmm...)

Erm, my lunch hour is almost over and I haven't gotten any food, so this is me signing off...I do have this idea for tessellated fish and some kauni and a kid sweater.  I just have to figure out what I did with my charting software.

Comments

[Risa]

Now I'm all excited for the ordered Autumn Rose yarn to arrive! I'm totally with you on the MS3. I won't knit the wing and I'm not all that anxious to knit the same darn thing again and either graft in the middle or knit the alternative she added later. I didn't love the first half enough to knit it again. I'm really leaning towards ripping it out and repurposing the yarn for something else (like I need more yarn).

[Juno]

I miss you.

[Carole]

I think it's time for the inlaws to take the KIDS on vacation so that you guys can have a proper vacation of YOUR OWN. Just saying.

[Cheryl]

I really can't wait to see this Autumn Rose on you. I think it will really be smashing. Hurry up and finish it already!

[Katy]

I'm with Carole. Can you just drop the kids there next year? Because having done Storyland 2 summers in a row now, I'm telling you it gets old. (For you, not the kids. My kids would go every weekend if they could.)
So sorry about the transmission. We are car shopping right now and it sucks. Maybe we'll just never leave home again, that way we won't need a car!

[Lee Ann]

Glad you're back posting...I miss you too.

And, um, vacation with in-laws? No matter how much you love them?

Not vacation.

[Mel]

Count me in with Juno, Carole, and Lee Ann. Hopefully your in-laws are just a wee bit better than mine, who can't even acknowledge that we've got an upcoming wedding. At least the extended in-law clan is being supportive.

[Beth S.]

What Carole said. You sound like someone in need of grownup-time. And a real holiday! :-)

I'm fascinated by Autumn Rose, so will be keeping a hopeful eye on your progress... I've been thinking about whether it could be adapted into a cardigan, and made a little less form-fitting. But would that ruin the spirit of the thing? Etc.

[Dr. Steph]

I love it when I'm in love with a project so much that's all I want to knit. I'm just waiting to get jiggy with my Grey Mist bohus again. I love it but humidity and angora do not mix.

[JessaLu]

I'll add my vote for the grown-up in-law free vacation :o)

[maryse]

i'm with lee ann. well if you replaced "in laws" with "parents."

the autumn rose is going to look awesome!

[JoVE]

I guess you don't need any more votes, but I'd support the kids go to grandparents you guys go (anywhere, back home, alone with no kids...).

Glad work isn't too nuts. And please post photos here for those of us not doing Raverly. We don't want to lose all kinds of cyber friends because we insist on being luddites who don't do social networking sites.

[melissaknits]

Oh, man, Story Land and Heritage New Hampshire. Those were the days. But with in-laws? not on your life.

[Sneaksleep]

No fair! Not all of us are allowed on Ravelry yet, ya know! Please please please post a pic or two to the KAL as well! Glad to hear you're so in love with it, though!

[Webbo]

Autumn Rose is so exciting just to look at - I'm envious of anyone with the technical nous to enjoy the process of making it. I packed my kids off for a week with the in-laws about a fortnight ago: believe me, it was profoundly beneficial to the kids' relationship with their grandparents, my relationship with my partner, AND my relationship with the in-laws. Seriously, I've rarely felt so much love for them as I did by the end of that week.

[Kristen]

Ditto Juno.

[CarolineF]

Thanks for the link to Anne's Autumn Rose. I still don't think I'll make it, because I don't want to buy the book for that one pattern, but really Eunny's sense of style is so fine. I am looking forward to seeing what she makes of IK (winter is the first issue that's all hers).

[Lucia]

Carole is so right! My folks do that once or twice a year, just for a weekend, but you have no idea how great that weekend is.

[amysue]

add me to the greek chorus above!

Oh and once you chart that Kauna tesselated fish sweater start a KAL for the rest of us to..um..test knit it with you!

[boodely]

I refer to those kind of "vacations" as "a trip". Both meanings of the word.

[Laurie]

I vote for the taking of the kids and the real vacation rising like a phoenix from the ashes of pseudovacation.

Autumn Rose is lovely. That will look so good on you.