16th April 2011

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BSJ Extravaganza

So, my Spring has been kinda busy. Like crazy busy.

Last month the fella and I went skiing with a good friend of ours. We drove up to Sunday River where the plan was for the 2 guys to go downhill and for me to cross country ski or skate or sit in the lodge by the fire and drink tea (or something stronger) and read/knit and perhaps even nap.

Turns out a couple things happened.

1. Skating rink was closed (which we found out as we were leaving)
2. I felt uncomfortable x-country skiing by myself when I don’t really know what I’m doing
3. I got caught up in the skiing excitement

So after having downhill skied once, approximately 16 years before, this happened

I took a lesson while the boys went and skied. Our friend is a crazy good skier and my guy has skied only a little so they stuck together and didn’t do anything crazy so no one (my charming man) got hurt. Eventually we all got to ski together! (Technically is was more/harder than I should have done, but I lived with no real injuries, so we’ll call it a win!)

The fella is in blue just past me in the foreground. The gentleman in red is the Dad of our friend, who convinced me that going up the big lift was a good idea, skis like a speed demon, and is wearing the world’s cutest penguin hat. He also makes a delicious Manhattan.

Once recovered from all the fun, and soreness, I got to work on the next BSJ in my queue. My cousins were holing a fundraiser event for the hospice that helped their Mom last year as the cancer became too much. It allowed my Aunt to spend as much time with family as possible and be comfortable. I said I would donate a handknit baby sweater for the raffle. Schoolhouse Press was kind enough to allow me to knit the Baby Surprise Jacket for it since it was for charity and away I went.

About 2.5 weeks later, in Cascade 220 Heritage Paints, the result was this

While everyone who saw it thought it was great, I was not in love. Not my favorite yarn to work with, colors weren’t my thing, but I knew I was just feeling cranky and that it would be great as a gender neutral garment. Then I found the buttons…

Instant sweater love! I purchased everything at the new knitting and sewing store in Cambridge called Gather Here. The buttons are vintage and washable.

It went to a good home and helped raise some money, and in the end I loved it.

Then, I just got a picture from a good friend who had her baby boy with the picture of the sweater I made. The one in Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sport in Turtle Rodeo that I found the perfect buttons for.

And now I need to wind some yarn and cast on for another BSJ I offered to make for a friend at work who is a new Aunt and very excited. Fist one I’ll be making for a girl, and the colors she picked are great. Once I get started I’ll show it off.

For now I better go start my day and try to work on my homework some more. Learning web development has its easy moment and its hard ones, and I’m finding out Javascript assignment to be hard. Working with other people’s code… meh.

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