Soccer and number 5 of 5

Our final soccer tournament of the year. So, I got some work done one the last knitting present. Our parents also got so rowdy that the ref lodged a complaint with the tournament officials. Nice.

Trophy

Just a quick snap before going to a couple games. His club played a world cup the other week and his team won, so they all get to bring the trophy home for a day. Worked on Cecily while watching them win 2 back to back games.

Soccer and modular knitting

Women and Neo I think ...


So I'm doing a couple modular projects. One's a baby blanket for my college roommate who's having her first baby. She was a marine biologist so it's going to be squares of plain stockinette in ocean colors in KnitPicks Comfy sport. Here's the first square I just finished.



The other is a mod of the Beekeeper quilt - little hexes worked in the round in sock yarn. I'm going to make a best out of them and stuff them very lightly so they'll be flatter:

Something fun for fall

We made these over the weekend - awesome.  The little one also played soccer, his last regular season games and did a nice job.  That could be somewhat to do with his new found interest in hockey.  We also went to a Gladiators game:

where I worked on Sara's mittens:

Getting back to finishing things

So, I finished my Sedona mittens last night - I'll take thier picture tomorrow when they're done drying. It's supposed to get cool this week - 50's and 60's cool - so I'm cleaning out the project basket and finishing another complicated black sweater. I hope I have enough yarn because it's Alpaca Silk and they don't make it any more. Which is sad. I'm waiting at the dr's office this morning - just a check up - so I'll have a little knitting time.


Here's a picture from the weekend - the little one had 3 soccer games and really played his heart out which made us really happy as parents. Here he is having a burger and throwing fry prices to the sparrows:



Kid loves malt vinegar on his fries and has a morbid fascination with the recipe on the back for "peachy chicken". Peaches, vinegar and chicken? Doesn't sound too tasty to me either.

Soccer is over for the year

And yikes was it hot this weekend. Anyway, it's been a while since I posted soccer pictures, so here's our kid with his amazing hippy hair:

Saturday before a soccer game

One down

At indoor soccer practice:




Working on number 2.

I'm back

Sorry, life was crazy there for a while. Not that the holidays help with that sort of thing (neither does a family, or a job or any of those things).
Speaking of, I'm feeling more on top of Christmas than in a long time - and yes, I'm doing lots of knitting. This is for my mom - it's vest. I should make more vests, they're fast.



The problem with knitting presents is you really have to plan ahead. Like, so far ahead, it takes all damn year. And who wants to plan out their knitting life that far in advance?? Talk about killing all the fun.
But I was reminded of This today. So, if you need a gift for a crazy bibliophile, check it out.
I need to look at scarf patterns - going to try out Capra

Knitting at a game

Indian food later. The little one has made vast strides in his goalkeeping.
Working on sleeves.

Die, Yuppie scum!

Something my dad was fond of saying, back in the day.
So, tonight, sitting in our new chairs, playing Scrabble on the IPad and watching the kids play soccer. I work on socks between turns. I had made the spouse a sandwich of prosciutto, mozzarella and basil for dinner which (when combined with all the other stuff mentioned above) inspired "when the hell did we turn into the yuppie scum of the new century?"
Here are the socks. I can still make nice socks even after selling my soul, I guess.

From the game today

Once again, too hot to knit, but not to take pictures.  That mouth thing he does when he's concentrating on doing something physical, that's all me.  Have I ever mentioned I failed out of ballroom dancing classes?  True story.  Fortunately, this kid doesn't take after me so much that way.

Sadly, I am unable to knit

At practice





Because it's 100+ with the heat index. How sad they look - yes, I'm sitting on a towel because the grass is itchy and full of ants.