Friday 26 February 2016

Monster Pants

Finished up the Monster Pants. Too cool for school these are. My Wee Niece is coming to visit this summer so I'll give them to her then. I really hope I made the right size. Also left out the elastic waistband for now; once she's here I can measure and insert it. Gave him one tooth because I got tired of duplicate stitch, if I get overwhelmed with ambition I'll add more. Don't expect that to happen.

Pattern: Monsterbukse by duBedÃ¥re
Yarn: Georga Baby Luv in Baby Mint and Baby Yellow with White and Black for the eyes
Needle: 2.5mm & 3.0mm
Gauge: 30 st X 10cm & 35 rows X 10cm

Too cute!

Current Weather
Mostly cloudy, 11C.

Bizarrely warm for this time of year, I'm told there is still good skiing if you know where to go in the mountains though.

Thursday 25 February 2016

Throwback Thursday

Kittens
Update on Ahab's Scent Hurdle points; he did earn his first title on Saturday. So proud of him. I suppose I can now introduce him as "Captain Ahab, SHD". Wait, that means he's got more letters after his name than I do. Figures. ;-)

Current Weather
Mostly cloudy, 7C.

Honestly, I thought this segment would be more interesting but the weather's been strangely predictable lately. I'm sure it'll pick up once the summer storm season hits. Or, maybe we'll get some wild spring snow soon.

Sunday 21 February 2016

Scent Hurdle

HE DID IT!!!!

Ahab did extremely well yesterday at Scent Hurdle. He struggled in his first couple of races and I had to go with him to the box to remind him of what he needed to do. So we took a break for a couple of races. Then we tried again near the end of the morning tournament and this time he did it! So proud of my boy.

In the afternoon we ran with a different team because my team only wanted to enter for the morning but I wanted to get some more exposure for Ahab and run in the afternoon too. Another team was willing to take the risk on a green dog so this time he was racing with dogs he didn't know and he still did awesome. He even had another dog cross into his lane which threw him off a bit but other than keeping a close eye on the dog in the other lane on his next run he was fine. I don't have any video because I was so busy with Ahab and I never thought to ask someone else to take some for me. I never thought to take pictures either. Ah, well; next time.

I don't think he earned his Scent Hurdle Dog (SHD) title because we just weren't fast enough to get 10 points in each run. He needs 50 points to earn that first title and he had 10 from last year before he had to stop running until the rules were changed to allow him to run again. I think he earned another 20 yesterday, we had a lot of runs that I'm pretty sure took too long to earn any points. I could be wrong though so I'll wait until the Statistician has posted the official results to be sure. But he took some big steps towards earning that title and I couldn't be happier with how he did. In any event points, titles, and such are for the human; all he cares about is that I was really happy about what he did on the race course.

And the buffet that was the floor; he cared about that a lot. We were racing in a horse barn so there were traces of horse poo in the dirt. He thought it was a great smorgasbord. Urgh, poo-eating hound. Fortunately Garbage Guts didn't get sick.

After getting home from Scent Hurdling

In other dog news, Soccer behaved himself when Mom took him for a walk. It was clearly a good dog day.

Knitting
With all the Scent Hurdling yesterday all I manged to knit was another fish for the Fishie Blankie. I was pretty tired when I got home.

Current Weather
Sunny and 3C.

Friday 19 February 2016

A little bit of progress

Another Knubbelchen is progressing nicely.


And my Niece's socks are coming along as well. Let's hope these don't come down to the wire as badly as my Nephew's did last week.


My Nephew liked his socks, or at least he was too polite to say otherwise. Actually, I think he liked them. Mind you, he's pretty accustomed to getting socks from me. His comment when he pulled them out of the bag; "gee, I wonder who these might be from?" Cheeky kid.

Scent Hurdle
Tomorrow Ahab is going to try for his Scent Hurdle Dog title. He has 10 points from last year before it was discovered that he was in violation of the rules for missing a paw. Have now got the rules changed so he can play again. I just hope he remembers what he's supposed to do; he's only been doing it at our practice facility for quite a while now. Oh well, if it's a disaster so be it. He needs 15 more points for his title. Fingers crossed.

I think I've got all the documents printed off for the tournaments tomorrow. It's my job to bring all the score sheets and stuff. There will be two tournaments, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Ahab is running in both, in the morning with our team and in the afternoon with another team since the rest of my team only wanted to come for the morning and I wanted to try for the whole day. Although, if Ahab can't make it all day I'll pull him.

Current Weather
Mostly cloudy, 3C.

Sunday 14 February 2016

Down to the wire

Finished the socks for my Nephew at last. I was seriously beginning to wonder if I was going to manage it. Now, I just hope they fit given the way this kid's feet tend to grow.

Pattern: Improvised
Yarn: Brown Sheep Wildfoote Luxury Sock in SY54 Mountain Path
Needle: 2.0mm

Done! At last!

Better get started on a pair for my Niece ASAP just in case I experience anther case of "Sock Block". Hers will be needed by the middle of next month.

Future socks.

Current Weather
Mostly cloudy
7C

Saturday 13 February 2016

Another week gone

Well, that was both productive and..... not.

Finished the knitting on the Monster Pants. Now I just need to worry about embroidering on the eyes and teeth.


But that was mostly so I could procrastinate on finishing my Nephew's socks. As you can see that went swimmingly.

These need to be done in two days

Then I knitted some fish for a possible A Recipe for Fish blanket. That's helping splendidly with the procrastinating as well.





What is it about these poor socks? The kid's birthday party for the family is on Monday I have GOT to get a move on.

Current Weather
2C and cloudy.

Saturday 6 February 2016

Focus, focus

I have got to start focusing on the socks for my Nephew. His birthday is next week and I'm not even done the first sock yet!!!

Unending socks