Fleece Artist Garter Stitch Jacket (Purchased in Nova Scotia 2006)

Back on Valantines day in 2006 I was working on this Jacket. Ironic I rip it out just before Valantines day!

I should have known I would never knit something that required 2 skeins of mohair knit together. When I knit it I got very tired of the 2 strands because they looked so much alike that I started just knitting every 2 rows with alternate skiens. This makes it pretty darn hard to rip. I couldn't use the ball winder so I had to do it all by hand and my back was killing me by the time I was done, as I slowly hunched lower and lower.

Before:

After:

Near the end it got really bad so I simply threw that bottom strip away. Yes I am crazy like that. I don't think I will ever get rid of this yarn, it's sentimental because I got it in Nova Scotia and it's very pretty. I might put it in a nice bowl just to look pretty.

I have started getting e-mails asking why I am MIA! Well if you really want to know...

My husband quit his job in late December and is still on the great Job hunt. I supported his quiting (even without a nother job lined up though I did warn him about it of course) but we are okay right now as I do work full time and our house payment isn't that high compared to most (we live in the boonies!).

So the stress of him wanting to find something that meets his requirments but also just gets him back to work is stressful but we are doing well.

Australia! It's just around the corner now and I can honestly say it's stressing me out a bit. We need to purchase our plan tickets faily soon (before prices rise) but I was waiting for a deal, none to be found. It's going to cost nearly $1,000 more then the last time we went so I was hesitating. So now with the husband jobless it's a bit harder to click the "buy" button for such a large purchase. We don't do credit cards in this family so when we spend larger chunks of money it effects reality!

So yeah that's whats keeping me from knitting and blogging, some life stuff but this often happens to me at the first of the year so no worries at all! Things will swing back up in February. I have a knitting retreat for a girl weekend with Claudia only a few weeks away!

The photos above show some of the "big ice storm" we got here. Not so very exciting, however Jen got 8 inches and I am very jelouse!! You will want to click that link for cool pics of Llamas and other fiber animals in the snow!