Im starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel with this project. We’re still at the hospital though. Thanks for all the kind thoughts.
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Like my new shoes? Ellie has some too.
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Back in the hospital with Great Gran. I’m getting lots of knitting done and its MUCH quieter than the neural care unit but Great Gran feels much worse. This is the end of Antibiotics Day One. I’m hoping for a better and less fevered tomorrow.
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Post from the Carpool Lane
You know those days where you can’t seem to get anything done because of all the things that need to get done? Yeah.
I did finish another CounterPain square.
That’s two and a bit this school year! At this rate, I’ll be finished by middle school.
Aw, Nuts
October is my second best month for toy sales (early Christmas shoppers). Weirdly, August (and the last half of July this year) is the absolute best. Which does mean that September is a bit of a scramble to restock.
The latest finished piece.
That’s Cashew Bear. He’s made with Lion Brand Nature’s Choice organic cotton. I’m actually a big fan of this yarn. It’s readily available, reasonably priced for an organically grown cotton AND plant-dyed. You do have to watch the dye lots since shades can vary radically between batches but I don’t care because plant-dyed is cool. Nature’s Choice listed as a worsted yarn, but I treat it like bulky with no trouble. The soft spun core plied with a skinny thread gives a fun wooly texture to the fabric but it can be a problem for seaming. The friction caused by drawing the strand through the knit stitches may cause the strand to fray and break. Which may cause you to tear out your hair. Not a huge big deal with toys – I just swear a little, pick it out and start over. If I were making a sweater I would consider using a different yarn for the seams.
While we’re on the subject of cashews (we’re not really but stay with me), Ellie’s school is peanut free. Which means that for my vegetarian child, a dependable source of lunch time protein has become completely unavailable. Since I can’t give her cheese every day, she’s not real big on leftovers and veggie deli slices aren’t the easiest things to get, enter the nut butters:
Presented in order of highest protein content per serving to lowest.
While peanut butter (as a legume) still has the best concentration of protein at 8g per 2T, sunflower seed butter is right up there with 7g. Almond butter has 6g, cashew 4g, and Nutella (while the most chocolaty of the contenders) has only 2g of protein. There are other brands of hazelnut spreads that I have not investigated, so it may be that the protein content is higher in those. The fat content ranges from 18g (cashew) to 12g (Nutella weirdly). Those are just the nut butters I have found available locally! Know of any others to add to my collection?
ETA: Ellie has just revealed that she does not care for SunButter. I’m going to have to figure out something else to do with it.
Carpool
It’s still too hot most afternoons to pick Ellie up on the bikes. So I put the CounterPain in the car for sitting and waiting knitting.
It was one of my better ideas.
S is for Sheep
It’s before noon on Wednesday, so it’s still early in the week!
S is for Sheep
She’s available on Ravelry and Etsy. Etsy does instant downloads now, although it is still easier to get corrections to you by way of Ravelry so that’s still what I recommend. I always seem to need those corrections.
As an aside, I know that ‘Sheep’ isn’t a technically correct choice for ‘S’ from a phonetic standpoint. But it is the only choice for ‘S’ from a knitter’s standpoint!