The good with the bad

Further to my last post where I mentioned about being up at 6am, let me just say that I don't necessarily choose to be up that early. Barb like you, I'd much rather still be in bed. But you see, now that the ol' pooch is feeling much better she's all energetic and all that. She starts at 4am by moaning and barking and I can't ignore it because her cancer medicine, Prednisone, produces more urine that her little bladder can handle (I know, TMI -right?), so I have to let her out. She's quiet for about 1/2 an hour and then she starts bugging me for food. Now that she's feeling better she could eat all day long if I let her. I do get out of bed and scold her for making noise but she's relentless. I can't put her in our bedroom because of her untrustworthy bladder and I can't yell from bed lest I wake the whole house up. So I get up. I know - you take the good with the bad, right?

Jo-Ann I agree. You'll have a shock if you had to move back! And another thing about the Costco's down here is the noise level. It's very noisy in the stores - well most of them anyway.

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And now here are some things I worked on this weekend:

1. Yup, I did put some time into the Angel Project, but not as much as I should have. The problem was that I have to work so close to the edge. So I spent time assembling the stand my mum bought me to make my job easier. Now my hand doesn't fall asleep and it's easier to cover a larger area. The downside: it's difficult to get to the back of the fabric for the frequent colour changes (I know, I know - you take the good with the bad. I get it)

2. I like knitting socks. I especially like the idea of the pedicure socks. I often have cold feet and don't always feel like prettying up my toes if they have to freeze for an hour without socks. I'm hoping this is the solution. It's also the first time I've worked with stretch yarn and I'm hoping that will make the socks nice and comfy too.

So far I've only knit the ribbed cuff of the first sock.

3. On Sunday I put out a clean tea towel but the longer I looked at it, the more it just seemed so plain. So on a whim I decided to embroidery it. Shame on me, I didn't measure the centre of the towel and I free handed the design - but it actually came out pretty good. JP hates embroidery on checked fabric but I didn't care. The towel just needed something. What a cute little pot, she's all worried because she could boil over, see the drops escaping from under the lid? And all that steam?

Maybe I should have done a tomato or a strawberry instead? No worries, I have plenty more tea towels in my cupboard.
Note: This is not my idea, I copied the pattern, but I didn't trace it - that's what I mean by 'free hand'

And that's all I can update you on right now. Oh that and it's hailing right now - I'm not complaining though because it's much better than an Arkansas Ice Storm!