fiddlesticknitting

Happy Halloween!

Pumpkins

Today I was able to be very productive. Three loads of laundry, make a crockpot meal, clean the kitchen, take a shower (a luxury these days!), make cookies AND finish a hat!!

Pumpkin Cookies-- recipe found here. They probably don't look so appetizing because I didn't ice them (didn't want to push my luck with time), but they are oh so yummy. More like muffin tops than cookies, which is fine with me!

Little Pumpkin, pattern by Susan B. Anderson
You can find my spec over here. You'll have to wait until Wednesday to see the hat in action!

I decided to frog my most recent sock project. I still like the pattern , but did not like the yarn for socks. Scratchy and shapeless, how can you use something like that when you can use something like this?!? (BEWARE, IT'S A SPOILER PIC!)
I have an Ode to Rockin' Sock Club post planned, seeing as I haven't knit up any of the yarns, or used any of the patterns. I think I want to finally get started. That's after I knit these with this.

So, how was I able to be so productive today, you ask?

Bless this little pumpkin!

Friday Favorites

Hopefully I'll start posting more often this coming week. This was a hard week, sleep-wise. Satya had decided that sleeping was for wimps and would only cat-nap all day and then get up 3-4 times during the night. Ugh, right? But things seem to be getting better. Last night she slept for 5 1/2 hours STRAIGHT and then for another 3 or so. And then she's been sleeping pretty much all day today. Such a blissninny. Cross your crossables that all this daytime sleep does not affect her nighttime sleep.
Anyway, I will be posting about actual knitting content later this weekend, but I wanted to get in my Friday Favorites before it became Saturday.

1. I am LOVING these origami butterflies! I hope to have the time to make a bunch and string them up in Satya's room.

2. I stumbled upon Sulu's Etsy Shop this week. There might be three pair of earrings showing up at my house sometime soon.

3. Ok, so I've probably been living under a rock when it comes to this site, but damn! I need to learn how to sew SOON!

4. The first inspiration for my daughter's name. She's probably a little too, well, *little* to appreciate something like this, huh?

5. Now that I'm back to wearing my pre-pregnancy clothes (back to size 8, baby!), I am thinking a lot about food (I want cookies and many glasses of WHOLE milk, all the time!), and trying to get back to my regular eating habits (I ate a ton of meat while pregnant, because I knew I needed it and I craved it. Now, not feeling it.) I've read many great posts all over blogland, with this one sparking my interest. I am trying to find time to read Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle because I am very interested in trying to eat local. Homebaked cookies are local.......

6. This photo serves doubly. I think Scout is one awesome chick. I love reading her blog, oogling over her yarn and looking at her photos. I also am in *love* with this colorway by Wollmeise. I am being good and not ordering any, a) because I don't need anymore yarn, and b) when the hell did the US $ become so pathetically weak?

7. I am seeing this sock pattern around and loving it.

8. I have now seen yarns from this etsy shop twice in the past day or so. I want them all! Courtney is right, they do look very Noro-esque!

Hope you have fun visiting these links!

Friday Favorites

This is something I'm hoping to post biweekly, if not weekly. I've been inspired by many blogs (can't remember exactly which ones right now, sorry!) that spotlight their favorite things in the blogosphere, so here goes.....

1. YarnBallBoogie's new sock pattern: Stalkers

2. Areli's Endpaper Mitts....I love the pinkness of them!

3. Manda's Quilt for her daughter. Again, the pinkness!! Too adorable!

4. Check out Mama-E's idea, Mobtown Review. How cool is this?? You leave a comment and you could win yarn!! Which I did!!! I'm going to be receiving some of Brooklyn Handspun's yarn! Woo Hoo!!

5. Aija is such an enabler. I should be receiving these stitch markers in the mail anyday now....

6. I love this etsy shop. These prints are hanging in Satya's room. I like reading her blog too.

7. Oooh, these pumpkins!

8. I am loving the new Triscuit flavors!!

Oh, I can't resist!! My favorite Friday Fave:

Satya: One Month

This sweet girl was all smiles for her one month birthday. I can't believe it's already been a month! Wow! I can't believe that I still haven't driven anywhere in a month and that today was the first time I've been in a supermarket in a month. Nuts! Satya is doing so well, eating a ton and gaining weight quite nicely, like more or less a pound a week (well, at least she did the week we went to see the pediatrician, hopefully it's calmed down a bit). Her umbilical cord finally fell off after 4 weeks and now she looks complete to me-- belly button and all! We're not officially on a schedule, but I think I'm pretty lucky that she basically only gets up twice during the night. I don't usually feel sleep deprived, which I can't believe, but I've had my share of insomnia in the past to prepare me for this.
I can't believe that I actually thought I'd have two FOs to share with you since last week. I must be on crack. As soon as I wrote that, Satya decided that eating must be a 24 hr a day hobby, screw the knitting. I have knit a bit on a sock and hopefully sometime before she's 18, I'll get the Tilted Duster and Matinee Coat finished and photographed. We'll see. I do miss it. I did knit with her in my arms and she didn't seem to mind the rhythmic motion....she is the daughter of two musicians.....
I also can't believe that I said that I had three posts to compose, ha! We'll just see how long it takes for me to write another one!
I have yet to send out the yarn to Natalie and Kristeen.....Lisa, you'll get yours when I see you next week (?)....and I still need to hear from Marcy. I hope to hear from her soon to collect her STR in Midsummers Night.....if not, it'll be up for grabs.
Here's another picture of my Satya with Lovey. I love it. (Wrinkly forehead and all!)