catch up

Seems I am always catching up, but never quite there. Another school year has started and I am behind. We need to get BG's assessment done and paperwork in for last year's homeschooling. BG has already started the new year of work, and seems to enjoy it a bit better this year. We have had 2 days in a row that the babies came sleeping and stayed asleep long enough for us to get a good hour of school work in.

We are getting away this weekend with my son and his wife. DD-i-l only has about 9 weeks left to her pregnancy and I sure need time away from watching dd's babies..even if it is only one day. Most weekends are spent trying to catch up on the housework that has slipped during the week when the babies are here. It will be nice to just sit and talk. Maybe I will get a good bit of knitting done too. New granddaughter is due mid November and her name will be Leeve.

DS#2 is planning on being home on leave in the middle of October. It will be good to have him home even a short time. He emailed me to tell me which PTerry books he has finished and which ones he just bought. We have another Discworld convert! I might even let him watch The Colour of Magic on my pc when he is here.

OTN: Morpork Pie shawl from MMario which is about 65% done. I have about 15 rows of round knitting to do then the border.
Queen Anne's Lace shawl from MMario which I am knitting up in crochet cotton for a tablecloth. I would estimate about 60% done. I have about 15 rows to do before I start the repeats to make it the right size. I just don't know how many repeats I am going to do. Enough for it to hang nicely over my 58 inch round oak table.
Mystery stole 4. Just started this project as the only clue out so far is #1. It is a beaded shawl and this will be my first beaded project. I got to row 5 (8 overall) and noticed I was 2 stitches over the count, so I ripped back to row 3 and found I was now 3 stitches short. grrrrr. So I frogged completely and am casting on again. It wasn't as hard as I thought to bead as you add the beads one at a time after you knit the stitch instaed of threading on all the beads before hand. A bit time consuming though. Pictures of the finished clue are showing up at the group and it looks nice.
Not OTN (yet): Sock Scare Fest socks, though I am downloading the patterns for a more convenient time.
Also planned for the near future: The Ankh-Morpork Knitter's Guild has decided to read Terry Pratchett's books in order and make an afghan square for each book. This is definitely something I want to do. We will each end up with our very own Pratchgans!