It's Actually Wednesday!

I'm actually updating on a Wednesday--yay!

Finished A's hat this weekend. It's a 3x3 rib and I love the way it fits snugly but with room still to grow. He immediately wanted to wear it on our outing to the library, so I gave him the little lecture about how he can't lose it--and he set it down 4 times while we were there. *sigh* So I decided that he couldn't wear it again until I figured out a way to put in an unobtrusive label.

Enter my new nifty label maker! I bought this with some birthday money and boy is it fun! :) In addition to the normal paper labels, they also make plastic, magnetic, and iron-on labels! I printed out an iron-on label, rounded the edges, and hand-sewed it to the teeny seam inside the hat. I didn't want to actually iron it on because the hat needs to stretch, but I knew that using an iron-on label meant that it would still be washable and durable. I like it and don't think A will be able to feel it at all--the bald Hubby tested and affirmed this as fact.


I have started seaming the elephant and it's as fiddly as I expected. The pattern is mediocre at best. It gives instructions for knitting the pieces, but no schematics of which is the top/bottom of a particular piece, nor which edges attach to which others. It's pretty frustrating. But I remind myself that it's going to a 1-year-old. :)

In other WIP news, I have cast on for E's matching boy hat and have about 2 inches underway. I'd also like to get back to work on my Monkey socks, but am starting to feel the Christmas gift pressure, so will probably move that direction in the next day or two.

Oh, and I have a little light reading to do. Oregon is the only state with all mail-in ballots. And this being a presidential election year, there's an onslaught of measures to wade through. On my ballot, there are THIRTY-FIVE measures (or elected offices) that I have to make choices about. Go democracy!