WIP* it good. (Sorry... Heh.)

Ok, WIPs for Wednesday, for the person who asked, and I just can't find.  If you are the blogger that thought this up, please leave a comment for addlepated me? 

Anywho, this is the WIPs  I have actually had OUT and looked at.  The white is a pair of Mukluks, I need to finish the toe on the one, and felt them.  Then I want to decorate them with some sort of embroidery.  If they work out well, and are comfortable, I might make a second pair.  (Now if I can just remember what I did with the leather soles...  Urk.) 

The brightly colored bit is a Tabi (mitten) sock.  Blessings to YouTube, I don't seem to 'get' the Kitchener stitch, and it wouldn't matter, except that this particular sock will have the toe(s) showing, so I really don't want a nice sock with a crappy lookin' toe. (And I won't wear them in the chicken yard, so hopefully there will be little of the OTHER crap, either.)  So, I checked, and lo and behold, they have videos on how to do that stitch!  Hooray for me!

The last might be Tinked (non-knitters, that is backwards knitting, you are Tinking, taking out the stitches), it is a baby blanket, but the pattern I was making up tends to want to rib and pull in on itself, making a really scrunched up looking thing.  So, that might go on the 'start over' pile.   

This next is the view I have most mornings when I get ready to walk the hill.  See all the steam?  It is steamed up because Rudee sees me and is whining, barking and puffing, getting wound up to walk.  (Husband seems to delight in winding him up, too, that's why he's out of the kennel.)  When he is in his kennel, it's even worse, because then he can play kangaroo and bounce off the side of his kennel, bark, bam, bark, bam, bark!  But, he is feeling good, (was able to chase 7, count them, seven deer this week, three in one day, one the next, and another three yesterday), and I lost almost a pound this week.  So, that WIP is going well.

This is the container garden, (I have FINALLY convinced Husband not to call it a Pot Garden... He has a lot of fun messing with my mind, yes?), and I have had a few tiny tomatoes, (Mom says grape tomatoes, I say 'grape' is giving them a whole lot of credit, is there a 'shelled pea' tomato?), some crookneck squash, and some zucchinis. There is also some peppers that are coming on, and I am hoping the spaghetti squash works out.

So, there is my Wednesday WIPs.  Now I need to get my tookus going and work on a Press Release for CERT.  Nothing like working on the fly.  (And needing to learn how to write a Press Release is beside the point, right?) 

*WIP - Work In Progress

Best laid plans, and all that...

Sadly, I can't remember who mentioned it on her blog, (little help?), but someone had said that it would be nice to have a WIP (Work In Progress) Wednesday, showing pictures of what we are up to.  I was going to start it today. 

Well. Uh.

Pictures...

Which are on my camera, at home, I am here at the substation, holding down the chair and phone...  So.  I guess I can do a picture free version, right? 

Meh.  It just isn't as fun.  So I will try and remember to start it next week. 

It will be a sporadic thing, or you will be watching the proverbial paint dry.  I tend to start a lot of projects, then work on them as the mood strikes me.  I note this is not a problem for me, but drove Husband nutcasers for a while. 

How can you start so many projects? 

I replied, well, I have usually a simple project for travelling, or when I have a bad case of Fried Brain.  A complex project, usually one that I design myself, generally a baby blanket for the NMCRS, but not always.  Then there are the "OMG, love that _______ I saw in the latest issue of  X knitting magazine, and I have needles and yarn for it.  Gottastartgottastartgottastart!" 

Then there are the projects that defy my best efforts, and are put in time out, while I decide the fate.  Some come out, and I continue.  Some come out, I continue working, to come upon new and interesting hairball messes complications, and they get thrown put back into time out until I can figure out if I even WANT to continue on them. (Some are recycled, usually after I realize life is too short to tear your hair out over something that is supposed to be FUN.) 

A few are (for me) are highly complex patterns, and I have to do them when I know that I will not be disturbed, or a certain male in the household won't start counting or doing other highly annoying things, especially with lacework.  He has an INTERESTING sense of humor, at times. 

Let's just say, I had a 400 stitch lace pattern, and after the 5th time I had to pull out my work after Husband started saying random numbers, I not so gently reminded him that I did have 14 inch # 8 needles that can double as shishkebob skewers.  Not taking the hint, I had him count the 400 stitches, and I turned on the weather, and started counting backwards from 100.

He got the hint.

At least he doesn't play with my row counter...