School has been a buttkicker lately and I’ve not had much to talk about. I’m steadily knitting on a few things (Jayne Hat, fingerless mitts, socks, mittens) but haven’t finished anything lately.

We got a new family member last week. Her name is Princess Fiona (The Liam named her)

She weighs all of 1.7 lbs and is a mix of poodle, chihuahua and wirehaired terrier. Shes a total sweetheart and a very good dog.

The kids had a blast on halloween.

We have a new member of the family now.

Everyone say hello to Donnatello.

I was bored on Monday (who me bored??) and I decided to knit a buttonhole bag. I had this yarn that I had spun and just could not figure out what to make from it. (you’ll understand once you see the colors) I think the bag turned out cute.

Here it is pre-felted:

And after two trips through the washer…

The fiber was a Romney/Mohair blend and it’s extremely fuzzy. I think I’m going to give it a hair cut. I was toying with the idea of making some felted leaves to put on it from some autumn colored yarn that I spun. Just have to knit the squares and felt them and then cut out the leaves. We’ll see if I ever get it done. Maybe I can needle felt it or someting. Angela can I borrow your felting needles??? LOL

I also knit a swatch from the grey yarn that I spun out of the raw fleece I bought.

I did it on size 6 needles and washed and blocked it. I haven’t measured it or figured the gauge yet.

Remember my last post lamenting the amount of projects I have on the needles??? Well…I now have one more. The daughter announced that she has a swim team banquet in three weeks and its semi-formal. The dress she wants to wear is strapless so I’m working up a stole for her to wear with her dress. No photos yet, sorry. Yep..one more project on the needles. (but I did finish something…the bag counts right??)

This little fellow came to live with us about two weeks ago.

He was born behind a friend of mine’s house and my friend was worried about the other very much larger male cats hurting him. He’s a bit wild and he hid for about 4 days and we didn’t see hide nor hair of him. He still won’t come to us voluntarily, but he’s figured out the litterbox and he is now roaming about the house more instead of hiding under my dresser.

We don’t have a name for this little boy yet. I think he needs something in his name that means “disappearing” or “vanishing” because he’s very very good at not being found. The kids like Topaz (heck if I know??!!??) but I think that’s too girly.

Any ideas???

EDIT!! They just posted the President’s Honor Roll list… Here Look for the city Longview and I’m the first one.