Taking the Scenic Route

Today we went by the college for Zach to pick up a stack of papers to grade.  He ended up spending almost 2 hours talking to the prof.   It is good though, because every conversation he has with him is worth the time…from talking about programming, to theory, to university politics.  Fortunately, the weather was nice enough that I could take Zane outside to explore when it became obvious he was going to talk more than five minutes. 

Then we went to the yarn shop.  They did not have a bright yellow yarn in wool or cotton, so I ended up having to get acrylic for Kaz’s hat.  At least it is a better acrylic than Red Heart. It is called Paton Canadiana and I got it in School Bus Yellow, Black, Cardinal, and Really Green.  She wants a big hat in Rasta colors.  I was originally going to make it with a hand dyed wool, but am concerned that she would have problems caring for it without felting it accidently.  Cotton doesn’t stretch well enough and bleeds, expecially since I am wanting to use red and black.  When I went to the shop I was hoping to find a washable wool, but the only yellow colors were really pale baby yellows.  For about 3 seconds I thought about getting it and overdying it, but I know that would be a bad idea because it is likely to just sit in my stash for a while before I get to doing it. So, acrylic it is.  Now I just have to get a hold of her to get her headband measurements and I can cast on.  I never did find a pattern I liked, so I will just be winging it.

Dori gave me a bag of pink wool yarn and would like some soakers for it.  I am thinking about trying out Pam’s Everlasting Wonder Soaker pattern.  I signed up to take the class but wasn’t able to make it to a lot of the online sessions, but I think I still have the pattern around here.  Dori’s babe is just out of small dipes, so I think the wonder soaker would be a good investment at this point.  She has been making a bunch of prototype slings and diapers that she is thinking about selling.  She has been struggling with the diaper pattern and materials (she is wanting to make AIOs…the waterproof layer is giving her fits) but the sling is really coming along well.  She is doing more of a carrier type thing than a maya wrap type thing.  It is pretty cool and fits both her (who I would guess is a size 9-12ish) and me (who is…well…considerably bigger. lol)  She is still going to be doing some refining, but I like the design she has.  Zach has been helping her dh with the website.  (her dh does website optimization, so he knows what he is doing and has made a number of personal websites, Zach just helped with some of the finer points and the graphics when they hang out together here)

Zach just came back from the video store with some more movies.  We have an account at the local video store where we pay $12/month and can rent all the movies we want, but just 3 at a time.  Great deal for us sinec they are almost within walking distance…ok, they are in walking distance, but it would mean crossing a very busy highway, so we drive.