Knitting for Mandy pie

First thing i did was measure her again every which way i could. then tucked that into my bag. hummmmmmm probably not a good place . easy to locate though. But the numbers were all on this bright pick sticky note. which i promptly miss placed when i was looking at possible patterns for her sweater.

i have taken great pains to notice if your looking for sweaters for kids your going to find tons of items for children birth to about 5. most of them are very cute and very nursery school like. nothing actually girl items orrrrrrrrr the modern girly girl stuff. oh sure if you want something hum ordinary heck i can knit that . i want a wow pattern. so after looking on line for one whole day at all the free patterns and at the for sale patterns and through countless magazines i have here all i can do is hit the old drawing board and come up with my own.
tougher to do then say though. but that is ok its all another adventure.

lucky for me Mandy Pie and her brother mom and dad had to come shovel out my drive way yesterday so i was able to grab her up and measure her all over again. this time i tucked all into my Stitch n Bitch handy dandy note book for knitters. which is becoming very stuffed. yarn labels and yarn stapled inside . notes everywhere, my favorite old stand by hand written patterns copied from the original hand written ones and stapled inside. so i don't have to hunt those down. swatches and photos of things i have knit for anyone. almost wish this was a three ring binder note book with tons of room but the same size ( the thought is tempting )

so far we have the color of what Mandy Pie is wanting and the size and were busy shopping have the hat pattern for her already of course.
but due to the weather we have had here lately and the whole town shutting down which is highly unusual for us even. Getting to the local yarn store has been out of the question. so while i wait for that to be possible again. since a 12 mile drive in one direction is not happening yet. then i am regulated to knitting socks . and playing around with designs.
write up some questions about it what it must be and go from there. see what i come up with.
meanwhile temps have risen back to bearable again were sitting at 25 degrees at 6:02 am.
oh yea, and i worked like crazy putting my audio books onto my sonic stage so i could load those into my usb port sony walkman. awesome Christmas gift i got one for myself and my two older grands. of course they run music on theirs i run audio books so i can knit and listen as i do.
latest book listening to is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
allot better then turning on the tv and running it for background noise. LOL
even have found a place on line where i can pick up some more audio books when i want too . right now i have three full books and two of the old testment on my sony walkman makes for lots of good knitting hours.

Harry Potter and the Oder of the Phoenix
The Da Vinci Code
Lords of the North

yep i am set up and turning heels like mad. may make it to the local yarn store today may not i can only hope.