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Ya know, the best thing about hockey tournaments is that they are like me going on knitting retreat with a little variance. I usually take my son to the games and then the rest of the time hole up and start projects that I know I can not usually concentrate on "in real life". A lot of times it is really just getting the project started that takes the concentration and then the rest of it flows. Believe you me....I am glad I was holed up in the hotel when I started the tribal carrier. For some reason my mind read the directions one way and they were very wrong....I had a couple warning signals....but it just did not click....I got off to a couple false starts. For some reason I thought the main intarsia section was worked in the round...my mind just translated the directions that way. I did do my gauge before I started the project and I am using the Mission Falls Cotton. So here I am in the hotel room trying to join the thing in the round on the 32" needle that they suggest.....no go....the piece is not wide enough...so what do I do? I just find myself a 24" need and join it in the round......feels funny but keep on knitting anyway....everything feels akward....I hate the way the join looks....the color sequence does not make sense...go to a game....come back start reading the directions again and realize that the directions never tell me to join in the round.....read the finishing section....it tells me that the body of the carrier is lined....DUH!!! ripit....riptit. Start again with the right needles...dang it is getting dark... the chart is so hard to read in the hotel lighting...have to give up and work on the Manos hat...no lighting needed for that. Next day... work some more on it in the daylight...make a committment to enlarge the chart so my eyes do not have to strain so hard.....I love it....love the concentration ....love the colors....love knowing that I got it started and can keep on working on it at home...love hockey tournaments; my reason for a knitting retreat!

I have to laugh. I have all of the sudden ended up with a family waiting list for a hat made out of Manos de Uruguay yarn. My nephew from Lake Tahoe was here last week....and after hanging with him I decided he needed a hat that was crafted from someone that loved him(me)...mind you, this is no baby....he is twenty something....independent....a sponsored skiier....(my mind works in weird ways is all I can say). So I started on Kim's hats from the Last Minute Knitted Gifts book. It was cranking because I needed some mindless knitting.....I went to visit my brother in Columbus and told him what I was making.....he gives me this funny look....and says I'd like one too"...so I laugh and talk to him about colors. I drive home and am working on the hat some more and talking with my husband about how funny it is that my brother wants the hat.....he gives me that same funny look and I say "what????"...and I realize I now have another hat request. I have to laugh.

Well it is time to foucs on my Columbus niece(Megan and husband Kevin) They are having a baby this March!
We are all pretty excited...family members are walking around and feeling the baby kicking which makes me go "UH OH" I better get my needles clicking. I promised Meg....a pair of baby booties a week until the baby is born. I started today. The other thing that I have absolutely been smitten with is the Tribal Baby Carrier in the Interweave Folk Knits book. I am totally planning to make that and sure could use a couple knitting buddies to keep me on task. As best I can tell the Mission Falls 1824 cotton should work perfectly to gauge and they have a great color range and we happen to have it at the store. I am totally planning to post pictures of the weekly booties and the progress of the Tribal Carrier. Keep checking back.....and really I would love to have some other people working on the carrier with me.