Nuclear Knits: Where knitting is the bomb!

The butterfly pullover that I started on my birthday is coming along. I'm 3/4 of the way done with the front. I'm a bit worried that it will be too small though. After the last hat that I finished I'm a bit nervous about size. I checked the gauge so many times I was seeing starts when I started. As for the socks I'm working on - I doubt I'll finish them before the July 1st Safari knit along. But, maybe my goal should be to finish one sock. We'll just have to see. The question I'm wondering now is how long to make the top. There is enough yarn to make them a bit longer than normal. The pattern calls for 6" but I'm thinking about 7 or 8. Any thoughts?

In general Bend wants to snuggle and I like to as well ... but at a certain point my knitting knocks him out of the way and I want to just get my knit on. After this past weekend of not having him around and his health issues - snuggling comes first. We snuggled all day. Very little knitting was had.

On my other blog I posted what is going on with Bend. I really can't go through writing it all out again. Needless to say I need a little cat attention and Methow is trying to pick up the slack. I know she looks a bit crazy - but really she is dancing on my lap while making smacking noises with her mouth. Odd - but comforting.

The rest of my spinning wheel showed up today - but out of the massive box there was one thing I was really hoping to see - INSTRUCTIONS. Now I'm going to have to surf the web to find how to put this darn thing together!

I've been waiting to cast on for this project. I finally decided on my birthday to do the gauge swatch and get my buns in gear. Of course Bend wasn't feeling very well and wanted to help out. Very nice of him! Although it took me 6 sets of needles to figure out exactly what I want to do. Thank goodness I wasn't doing massive gauge swatches. On another note FedEx has no idea where my second box (with the spinning wheel is). I'll call tomorrow to be a pain in the butt again!

I think it was Lethal Weapon where the guy used this line, "They f*ck you at the drive through." In reference to take out of course. But, for me - it is whenever I get my hopes up. The spinning wheel has taken forever to get here and was scheduled to be delivered on June 13th by Fed Ex. It shipped in two boxes one being 14 lbs and the other being 32 lbs. The smaller of the two boxes did show up and was just the wheel part. The other box, according to Fed Ex, now has no delivery day. I wanted to cry! To top it off I made a big push to finish up the hat that I was working on and - did ... but it is INFANT sized. I am now sure I must have screwed the gauge up something fierce. What the heck happened? I triple checked everything. I guess someone is getting a baby hat! And yes, the hat is on the cat ... that is how small it is!

The spinning wheel hasn't shown up - but some new sock yarn and roving has arrived. Half of the roving is from Liberty's Yarn and the other half is from Alpaca Direct. Since I had a gift card I thought I'd go with a blend of fibers I haven't played with before. Liberty's Yarn is something new I found on Ravelry and her colorways are fantastic. I can't wait to test some of the sock yarn! My spinning wheel is still on schedule to arrive tomorrow. I'll be a spinning fool once we get it set up!