Tick Chart and Stitching for Lyme

I accidently deleted this chart, so I'm posting it again*. It occurs to me that now I have to go in and fix all my broken Ravelry links... ugh.

*Upon further review I can't seem to find it... I'll keep looking, but otherwise I'll post a new version. I have some other charts I want to post anyway. I suck.

Ironworkers Local 433 Chart

I made this totally awesome hat for my husband, who's a Union Ironworker. Apparently it gets REALLY cold up there on those tall buildings in the winter. So he needed something very visible (hence the bright orange), but also very warm. So I thought "Hey, double knitting is warm. And that's something I haven't tried yet." And here ya go!

The hat is knit with the spud wrench pattern only, included in the knitting. The "433" was added later to both sides using duplicate stitch because (and I learned this the hard way) when you follow a pattern in double knitting it has to be reversible... which most letters and numbers are not...





If you have trouble saving the chart to your computer, I'll email it to you. keriboyle (at) yahoo. If enough people ask, I'll make it a pdf or something.

So what do YOU do when you can't sleep?

I, apparantly, post on my poor little blog.

So when I deleted all my internet crap, I decided that a big reason for doing it was that I wanted to protect my kids. Then it occured to me that I can't COMPLETELY leave them out of my blog (as referenced by the picture below), so I'm going to compromise by changing their names. Right now all I have is "Chicken-face" for my daughter, (there's a story), but eventually I'll come up with names for my 2 sons as well. I just don't want to use DD and DS like everyone else. That's just me being me.

I'm having mixed feelings about deleting all my old posts. It's kind of like going back and destroying your high school journal: it's cleansing, but you can't help but wonder if there was something important or insightful somewhere back there... Of course, in order to find that insightful-ness, you'd have to go back and re-read all the crap, and I just don't have the energy for that. Not to mention I deleted the pictures from my Flickr without thinking which ones might be important... that sucks... (Did you know you can't easily find out which of your pics are linked somewhere? Unless I'm completely retarded, which is possible, but if there are links that need pics with them, I have all the old pics on my computer - I just need to re-upload them to Flickr.)

So what am I up to? Does anyone really care? Well, I don't care if no one cares, I'm going to post it anyway, nyah, nyah.

I've been spending the majority of my free time making cloth diapers. I use these patterns from Little Comet Tails: Little One Size Diaper, Little Starter Cloth Diaper, and Sprightly Soaker and Underwear (pictured at the right).

I'm also sewing all my own cloth wipes, burp cloths, mama cloths, nursing pads (my own pattern which I'll post here someday, maybe), and whatever scraps I have left are used for quilt blocks for receiving blankets (which I NEVER thought I'd be able to make, but turns out aren't that hard at all).

I've also been working the BWAT office a lot, since I can't be any princesses other than Fiona from Shrek 3 anymore, due to my huge belly.

I've only got like, 6 more weeks to go, though, and I'm getting REALLY nervous... I'm having the baby at home, all natural and stuff, and it's kind of just now starting to get in my head that "oh by the way this is going to HURT." I know I can do it, but it's all that insecurity and what-not that's getting in my head.

Anyway, that's all I have time for now. I forgot how time-consming blogging is...