Evil Eye

Whew, World Wide Knit in Public Day was already a week ago, I can hardly believe it! We had at least 93 people gathered in Millennium Park to knit, crochet, spin, swap yarn, and donate yarn, needles and books to Interim House. The weather was outstanding, and although we overwhelmed security, I think I can safely say that a great time was had by all, well, except maybe security.

You can read more about it at the YarnCon Blog, which Sara and I maintain. In fact, please head over there and read about how you can contribute to the shipping costs for all of the wonderful yarn, needles and books collected that day. It is way too much for any one of us to ship out, and we can really use your help.

Just look at all that stuff!

Or, you can donate from the comfort of this very blog! Just click on the donate button (or PayPal text since I can’t seem to get the button to show up here):

I was warned I would miss regular sleeping, and I do.  All in all, I have very little to complain about.  I feel very healthy, I am just having trouble getting a full night’s sleep.  Usually I have some trouble falling asleep if I decided to take a nap, something I still haven’t gotten the hang of doing.  But this time I was woken up by a loud engine starting outside, and a weird dream, and I have been up ever since.  Oh well, at least this time maybe the nap won’t interfere with sleeping later.  Honestly, I am getting enough hours of sleep a day, it is more the frustration of not being able to fall asleep when I want to.  When I was younger I really struggled with insomnia, and I get a little paranoid about going through that again.  But I know it is not insomnia, it is trying to sleep comfortably with a huge belly in the way.

Yesterday Scott and I took an infant care class, reality is really setting in.  It was a good class, it covered the basics of what to do with the little guy once we get him home, what to expect, etc.  Did you know babies lose weight for the first couple of days after birth, before they start to gain weight?

I’ve been knitting of course, and I have gotten back to my spinning wheel and bench after a short hiatus.  We went camping for a week, which was mighty relaxing for me, since I guess no one wants to be the one that made the pregnant lady do anything.  Honestly, I felt kind of lazy, I hardly even did dishes, since at least on one occasion Scott got them done before I even woke up.  I didn’t take my usual walk down to the creek, since that is a tricky hike normally, but we did walk around the woods on some of our well known paths.  When it wasn’t too wet out (of course we got rain) I sat around the fire knitting.  I am still slowly working on the 2 blankets, but I did finish a bib, and am working on this little bunny made out of a knit square.

Plans are coming together for this year’s World Wide Knit in Public Day in Millennium Park on June 14th.  Not only will we be knitting (and crocheting and maybe even spinning) in public, there will also be a yarn swap, and collection of yarn and knitting needles and crochet hooks for Interim House, a woman’s shelter, and the assembling of Afghans for Afghans (if you have any 7″ X 9″ rectangles, you can add them to the afghans.)  Plus, we will have some swag, so please join us.

Also, there is still time to sign up to be a vendor at YarnCon.  So, if you or anyone you know wants to sell goods to the yarn loving public, please apply!