Almost Finished With Hayden's Pants

Here is a pic of the pants (don't look at the stains on the desk calendar. I eat my lunch here. What a slob!!). I can see where I knit instead of purled and vice versa. However, the Patons, Be Mine yarn is so fuzzy, it would have been tough for me to rip back and redo the parts where I messed up. Hayden doesn't mind. I have learned a lesson...use a yarn that isn't so fuzzy to learn new stitches(stockinette and ribbing).

The pattern adds a pull string to keep the pants up. I am going to get some elastic and sew it in. I don't like pull strings, especially on babies. Furthermore, I am thinking of picking up the stitches at the bottom of the legs and adding 'feet'. It has been cold lately and I hate how most pants the little guy wears ride up his leg, leaving his calves cold. However, as soon as I put the elastic in, I will deem this project complete. If I wish to add 'feet', I will call it another project. Yes. I am the type who will not move onto another project while one is still incomplete. I fear that if I do, I will have many incomplete projects which, I will NEVER complete.

We Have Bind-off!!!

I can't believe it. On Thursday at lunch, I started to bind-off Hayden's pants. I am so excited! I have been pretty busy as I am sure everyone has because of Christmas. Thursday evening was our Christmas party. It was at an Italian restaurant. The owner is very Italian. I am Italian. Another Salesperson is not Italian but he goes to the Colombo Club. Dh and I had prime rib. The restaurant only gave us a few choices for the dinner which is a shame because their pasta dishes are awesome. However, their hors d’ oeuvres were delicious. They included breaded zucchini, baked raviolis and calamari. Oooh!! I love that place. The restaurant has a bar and whenever he went to smoke these older barfly ladies followed him and talked ‘amongst themselves’ about sexual things then looked at my husband and giggled. I think they were hoping he was interested. It was funny but not. He made fun of them when he described them to me. I felt sorry for them.

Dh and I did our Christmas shopping for the boys yesterday afternoon. Now we have to figure out how we can get the time to wrap the gifts without the boys interrupting. I wonder what their Grandma is doing? Maybe we will stay up late and wrap. However, last night we laid down with the boys and tried to get them to sleep so we could get up and watch a Lord of the Rings but that didn’t work. We fell asleep.

Time to go. The boys want my attention.