yep, i'm 31 today. boy am i glad that i had that big blowout party last year for my 30th birthday! being pregnant sort of puts a damper on a good celebration (what's a celebration without prosecco anyway?) but today is guaranteed to be better than most lately. first of all, i'm happy to report that i only got up last night to pee twice (my usual is three) and even then, i managed to make it all the way to 3AM before i headed to the bathroom (usually my first trip is around 1:30AM). this means that i actually got a decent amount of sleep last night and i feel like a real human being! amazing.
also, my wonderful husband, KP, has treated me to a 75 minute massage at bliss tonight... the "great expectations" massage especially for pregnant women. i can't wait. now i just need to get through the day!
by the way, i thought that you might want to see bedtime bear all cleaned up. here he is hanging with his buddies, croc and curious george, in peanut's room.
see? he's clean. so clean. that last trip through the wash really did wonders.
now, onto my fair isle affair. so i've finished with all of the colorwork for the pirates hat.
outside is done!
and i have to say, i'm not sure if i like fair isle. i know, scandalous, right? it's just that it got boring because it's so slow! that, and when i made it to the decreases at the top, everything started to become really wonky and generally frustrating. maybe it's this pattern? i'm not sure, but floating the white across all that black WITH decreases was a 1) a pain in the neck and 2) not very pretty. i'm hoping that blocking will make it look better. if not, i might be done with colorwork on hats for some time. i'm still going to make the pirate mittens (which i've realized that i have to adjust to make man sized.)
another thing, i HATE the provisional cast on that i used. it took me over an hour to get those stitches off the cast on and on to the needles. i used the crochet cast on as demonstrated here in eunny's lace tutorial (Invisible Crochet Cast On I) but for some reason, when i pulled on the end with the knot (as she directed) the stitches did not just pop off the crochet chain. so i went at it from the other end and had to pick the waste yarn out of every stitch. did i do something wrong? maybe i should have used a bigger gauge waste yarn. or maybe it was just difficult because the yarn was black and i couldn't see the stitches as they came out. anyway, it was really frustrating.
do me a favor, ok? as a birthday present to me, please let me know what provisional cast on you like and tell me that it's easy and there's a good explanation of it on the web or in a popular knitting book, ok? if you don't have one, then that's ok too. maybe someone can enlighten us all in the comments.
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