So that didn't happen.....

In true Nadia fashion, I piled WAY too many things on my to do list for Saturday and I didn't get to everything.  I neglected to factor in the 4 or so hours that I would be away from home for my daughter's friend birthday party -- a minor oversight.  All was not lost, the house was decent (a huge step up from it's usual I'm afraid), there was food and cake that turned out well, so I will call it a success.

The cake was new for us, my daughter wanted strawberry, so a recipe for strawberry cake I found here . It was good, and went well with the cream cheese whipped cream frosting I threw on there.  Strawberries and cream is a classic combination and it did not fail me :).

The pattern writing completely got skipped, so that is this week's project.  With all of the notes I have I can see what I did for each step, the hard part will be explaining it in a way that someone else can understand. Oh, and that tiny little matter of grading it into 4 sizes.  I am refusing to be scared off by this.  I have been told that I can be very stubborn (still not sure I buy this completely), so I am just deciding to be the boss of these numbers and bend them to my will.  No sweat. I hope.

Up for today: Pattern writing

Today is the day, I think.  As a fabulous way to avoid cleaning my house for my daughter's family birthday party tomorrow, I want to start writing the actual pattern for my design.  After 2 versions of knitting through, I have a pretty good idea of what I'm doing (okay, that may be a stretch, but at least I'm closer than I was!) and I want to keep the ball rolling.

And the big thing: I need to get over my fear of grading (doing the math for different sizes). It's not that bad, I can handle it.  So I need to just do it. I already worked out some of the numbers, so let's get it done.

When I'm not working on that, I will be frosting cupcakes for the friend party today, baking and frosting the cake for tomorrow, thinking about what food I will be feeding people tomorrow, and possibly cleaning. Okay, definitely cleaning, but that is my least favorite, by far and I will put it off as long as I can.

This picture is from Three Irish Girls (copyright is held by her), it is her second colorway created to raise money for support for pregnancy loss. More information can be found here . It is just one more way that Sharon is awesome. 

My order is already in, and I would love to see more people order.  Great yarn, great cause, and that's that.

Designing is not for punks.

Seriously.  I have this cute little sketch (by cute little sketch I mean something that my 4 year old probably could have drawn -- I am not gifted in the drawing department) and know what stitch pattern I want where, but that leaves a lot in the leap to finished garment.

Especially a finished garment that is the intended size and will fit a person of that size.  That doesn't have ginormous armholes and sleeves.  Not that I would know anything about that. 

I had this romantic little notion of designing, that I would sit down with this gorgeous yarn and just have this garment develop on my needles just exactly as I had envisioned it.  I have been enjoying the gorgeous yarn, and it is proving to be very resilient as it is repeatedly frogged. 

But I'm enjoying it.  Really. I had never created anything before, I was a die hard pattern follower.  This is opening up a new world that will never be untouchable again.  I *can* do this.  It is not effortless, it is not easy, and it isn't perfect, but it is.  Something is being brought into being because I thought it up and am bringing it into reality. 

New Title :)

I probably should have searched around a little before I chose the first blog title, since that one turned out to be popular and in use on etsy and Ravelry.

This one fits me better anyway, it's a nod to Eat Pray Love (loved the book, the movie not so much) and encompasses more of my life.  I am not completely back into the baking swing of things, but I'm getting there.  Doing it as a job for a while meant I wasn't baking much, if anything at home.  Now that I'm not working, it's time to bring the baker back!