Sunday July 18, 2004
Last night I went to the bookstore to search out a nice pattern for some baby stuff for my cousin’s child. I love bookstores. They smell so nice and the air just feels different in there, so relaxing…my oasis. I spent an hour and a half in there and could have sworn it was 10 minutes. (dh assured me I had been gone MUCH longer than 10 minutes…lol.). I looked through about every knitting book they had and settled on ”Debbie Bliss – the Baby Knits book” Now I know why her books are so popular…wow, some serious eye candy in the photos with such beautiful detailing. I don’t think anything in there is quick to knit, but I think the effort would be worth it. She certainly does not have a converstaional style in describing the pattern. It will take a lot of work and some sketching before I even get started. lol. I look forward to the challenge.
Now, the downside. I went to look up the yarns she *strongly recommends*, which is of course her yarn. It does look like trully beautiful yarn, but at $7-8 for a tiny little ball, it seems ludicris to me. It will take 6 (sometimes more) skeins of her yarn for a freakin baby sweater. My gosh, that would make a baby sweater more expensive than most of my plus size sweaters. I went to Mothering to ask about substitutions and found the question answered already. There is a yarn called Mission Falls that is about $4.50 for the same size skein that somebody there used as a substitution that worked well. If anybody reading this knows of another, please let me know. I am still sort of freaking out at that price. The LYS doesn’t open until Tuesday, so I will have to wait to see what they have.
Zane has discovered in the last few days that he can stand on tables & computer desks as well as the desk we have the tv nestled in in our room (put it in the “leg space” of a desk to keep him from crawling on tv, uses the drawers for toy storage). I am sure the kitchen counters are next. He is determined to make dh and I crazy I think.
He is really obsessed with play-doh (especially when Daddy tosses into the air), loves to color in coloring pages dh prints out on the computer, and is getting into kicking/throwing balls. He still likes chalk drawing on the porch. One really neat outcome of him being sick is he finally was still enough that he paid attention when I read to him, so now he likes to sit down and read. That really thrilled me because I was wanting him to develop a love of reading so badly. He still counts everything endlessly, but we were able to get him to do the alphabet last night. His current favorite song is “happy and you know it clap your hands”, except he only does the clap your hands right now…no stomping feet or anything else, just claps his hands. hee hee. He is so much fun!
