As John works his way through Mass Effect
, I'm working my way through his sweater. it's actually quite a lot of fun watching someone play a cinematic video game on a ginormous movie screen. The only bad part about it is that I have much more sweater to knit than he has game left to play. It is perhaps a good thing that Mass Effect 2 is supposed to drop on January 26th.
Aspinwall is knit as a variation on a bottom up raglan. It's knit in the round from the bottom to the the midsection, then both sleeves are knit and joined and the yoke of the sweater is knit up from there. This is the first of two sleeves (the second is cast on, but not so interesting to look at, at this point), knit in the round on DP needles. While I do like color work, I really don't like doing it on DP needles... so fussy keeping things moving. I find myself constantly dealing with re-setting my yarn as I move from needle to needle. But that's a relatively minor niggle.
I really enjoyed reading the comments and suggestions on Friday's post. I think I'm going to have to learn to take a few more deep breaths and remind myself that no matter what, once this phase is over, I will probably look back and miss something about it and not remember so much of the willful craziness. We do try to give her choices about things, when we can. But somethings just don't come with choice options... How do you explain to a naked two year old racing up and down the hall way that diaper is a non-negotiable?
Which is not to say that she doesn't surprise me, in a good way, sometimes. On Saturday night, after fighting everything from her bath to her diaper to getting her pajamas on, she up and declared she wanted to go to bed -- before her normal bedtime. Okay. Into bed she went. Then she indicated she wanted a book. Okay. One book in bed with the kid. And then she quieted down immediately and we didn't hear a peep out of her until morning.
Clearly, parenting is a journey.
, I'm working my way through his sweater. it's actually quite a lot of fun watching someone play a cinematic video game on a ginormous movie screen. The only bad part about it is that I have much more sweater to knit than he has game left to play. It is perhaps a good thing that Mass Effect 2 is supposed to drop on January 26th. Aspinwall is knit as a variation on a bottom up raglan. It's knit in the round from the bottom to the the midsection, then both sleeves are knit and joined and the yoke of the sweater is knit up from there. This is the first of two sleeves (the second is cast on, but not so interesting to look at, at this point), knit in the round on DP needles. While I do like color work, I really don't like doing it on DP needles... so fussy keeping things moving. I find myself constantly dealing with re-setting my yarn as I move from needle to needle. But that's a relatively minor niggle. I really enjoyed reading the comments and suggestions on Friday's post. I think I'm going to have to learn to take a few more deep breaths and remind myself that no matter what, once this phase is over, I will probably look back and miss something about it and not remember so much of the willful craziness. We do try to give her choices about things, when we can. But somethings just don't come with choice options... How do you explain to a naked two year old racing up and down the hall way that diaper is a non-negotiable?
Which is not to say that she doesn't surprise me, in a good way, sometimes. On Saturday night, after fighting everything from her bath to her diaper to getting her pajamas on, she up and declared she wanted to go to bed -- before her normal bedtime. Okay. Into bed she went. Then she indicated she wanted a book. Okay. One book in bed with the kid. And then she quieted down immediately and we didn't hear a peep out of her until morning.
Clearly, parenting is a journey.
I think we all have been influenced at some point by the notion that a child is a tabula rasa, then we have our own first child and discover that the child has come with a built in personality that sometimes clashes with our own! That does not mean that we cannot mold and influence our children to some extent, but the whole process turned out to be much more tricky than I ever anticipated!
You could try knitting the sleeves on 2 circs. It would be MILES easier and less fiddly that is for sure.
The sweater is looking good!
You could try knitting the sleeves on 2 circs..miles easier and less fiddly. The sweater looks great!
My DH is also a "Mass Effect-er" and I can't count the number of nights I've fallen asleep with the music playing softly in the background. I know he's played thru at least three times - the choices made impact the subplots in the story and make the re-plays a must (in his opinion).
I pre-ordered Mass Effect 2 for him for Christmas and made a small box with Sheppard's likeness to hold the receipt ;)
I love the color of the sweater... it will be gorgeous!
Sometimes less than ideal behaviour is related to tiredness or hunger, especially when I was out with my kids, I noticed that these 2 culprits were present a lot of the time.
The colorwork on the sleeve is really nice. Did you use the trick of turning the colorwork section inside out to keep the floats a little longer?
Well, when Lucy was doing that (racing around diaper-free, and shrieking if I tried to diaper her) we brought out a potty chair and started talking about how if she wanted to be naked, she needed to sit on the potty to go pee. There were a few messes the first days, but she is now 100% potty-independent at home (as long as she's naked waist-down) and starting to ask to use the potty other places as well.
I agree - get the potty out! She'll be using it by her own choice in no time.
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