I'm Not Regular

You see what December does to me every year?! I am just now becoming normal again (some might say that's debatable)...and we're half way through February! So I'm going to try to get my blog groove back on, but I feel like the forces are working against me. Those forces being a job, kids, money-pit house, camera difficulties, the new and improved blogger sucking, and mercury being in retrograde again. (I haven't checked if it is for sure.. but all the signs are there)

Maybe it's not just December that threw me off... maybe it's just me.. and this new life. I feel like we've just moved, and already it's been a year since we arrived, and April 1 will mark one full year of living in this house. People tell me that we've come a long way, that we've accomplished a lot in a year (both with the house, professionally, emotionally, socially) There are so many layers to making such a big life change. I have learned to be a lot more accepting, a lot more patient, and a lot less of a perfectionist in this last year... it was either do all of that growing, or go crazy. (and a little bit of "do all that growing and go crazy")

So I don't know how regularly I'll be blogging. I don't think that anything is happening 'regularly' in my life right now. I'm irregular. It's all new territory. I guess I thought that it would all calm down sooner or later, and become predictable/regular/ordinary again.. but somehow, I have a feeling that this life we've chosen here is going to be anything but. I think that's a good thing.. life feels 'real' again. Sometimes, that 'real' feeling is a slap in the face... but other times 'real' feels so incredibly beautiful and lovely that I can't imagine how I lived with barely a glimpse of it for 5 years.

My knitting, however, has been pretty regular. Nothing exciting.. but fun things to keep me interested, and small projects to keep me knitting. I think that now is not the time to tackle a big knitting project... I've got enough big projects on my plate right now.

Kristina bag, completed.

I really enjoyed knitting this, and it was my first attempt at fair isle knitting... a nice and simple project to test the fair isle waters with. I think it looks really sweet, but now, looking at this picture makes my stomach lurch.... the time, the energy, the excitement.... all so that it could be felted and then shriveled up into something so small, so blah, so not usable. erg. I'm so mad right now, that I don't even want to take a picture of the finished product. Had I known, I would have left it as such, and lined it.


Well...at least this should prove to be cute and useful when it's done. It will be a Booga Backpack of sorts ... I've yet to make the bazillion feet of I cord for the strap, and felt it.

I picked out the yarn for this backpack before we moved here... and as I was knitting it, I noticed that the same colors are in my bedroom wallpaper. Spooky.















The Kristina bag has similar colors also, and I also bought that yarn before the move. Then I recently purchased the Komi mitten book, and chose some yarn to do a pair of mittens in that book...... no surprises here.....


It's funny, for quite a while my hands were always drawn to the red and pink yarns on the yarn shop shelves, then I became enamored with blue/greens, and now I obviously can't break away from this combination of blue/greens, together with browns. I wonder what will be next.