~cue the ominous music~

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holy cow — you guys just love pictures of dogs in bed! If I could get them all to play poker and snap a picture of it, I wonder how many comments I would have?

guess who is laying in bed this morning?

me! and you should be thankful there is no pictorial! it would burn your retinas.

Now before you start thinking about what an easy life I have, let me say that my being in bed is less about luxuriating and more about hiding.

I am hiding from my sweater project.

I am beginning to suspect that this sweater has developed some kind of will of its own and does not want to be knit. I wouldn’t be surprised if this thing made the phone ring and asked me, in a high, scratchy and menacing voice if I were alone in the house. Or if I knew where my children are.

After a great deal of trial and error, I finished the back. I cast on for the front and am knitting away on the K2P3 ribbing. I am thinking that all of my troubles are behind me and isn’t it right and good that I was so particular about the back and how now I will have a fabulous finished product.

It’s a bit too complicated to explain how this next part happened. Suffice to say that there had been some undetected needle confusion. It all has to do with the gauge issues I experienced while knitting the back. It also has to do with my complete lack of short term memory. I was using needles two sizes smaller than I needed! more ripping.

and now I am hiding. It is out in the den.

just waiting for me.

morning has broken

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It is 9:57 am. I have been up since 6:15. The house has been cleaned, laundry folded, ice lanterns made (told you I was a ice lantern machine!), dishwasher unloaded and I have even managed to read some blogs.

Yet with all of this industry, here is a picture of my bed:

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why hasn’t it been made?

how about a closer look ……

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going to the dogs

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I had a very full day yesterday. Worked in the shop all day and the minute I got home had to take D#2 off to her flute lesson (which is normally scheduled for Thursdays). So I didn’t actually sit down until 8:30 pm. This meant very little knitting. wah!

Today I am looking forward to getting some quality knitting time in. I will be working on my sweater, but also on another poochie pillow back. When I made yesterday’s featured pillow, I also knit up a pug and it still needs it’s Log Cabin back panel.

Since it is all canine all the time around here, I thought I would share with you a little slice of my morning. The minute my feet hit the ground, somewhere around 6:15, the dogs’ mission is to get me to go downstairs. This is where their food bin is. But first I insist they go outside. Oftentimes I have to really insist that the pugs get off of the deck! Lucy in particular is fussy about her feet and doesn’t seem to like the feel of cold, wet grass – and really, who can blame her? As I stand in the door, they will frequently look back over their shoulders as if to say, ‘you can’t be serious!‘ Once the ablutions are over and done with, it is time for chow. They are in a real uproar at this point. Here is my view as they gallop down the stairs:

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it’s too bad I can’t provide an audio track. There is much yelping and woofing and a great clicking of the toenails.

maybe I should knit this view into a pillow?

so, now I am off to my comfy chair – my happy place!

a pillow & an epiphany

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I wanted to share with you my moment of pure brilliance. It happened while I was seaming this pillow.

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I was in the middle of the first side, seaming along and pondering the pillow. It is a Christmas gift for a dog loving friend. I was thinking specifically about how to seam this pillow to make washing it at some future date an easier task, one where you wouldn’t have to take the whole pillow apart. It occurred to me were I to seam the bottom with its own thread of yarn, when it needed to be washed my friend would simply need to take apart the bottom seam and only the bottom seam. By having its own seaming thread, there is no danger of involving the other adjoining seams!

And although I am blogging in the quiet of morning, rest assured I do hear your thunderous applause.

~bow~