Still waiting.....

I missed karate on Tuesday night because I had to travel for work.  I'm going through withdrawls!  I keep doing roundhouse kicks and posing in front of the bathroom mirror like I'm freaking John Travolta on Saturday Night Fever.  I should find out this tuesday if I passed my test.  My class partner passed (yay!) and reassured me that I did, too.  We shall see!  I'm so hard on myself; I want to get a perfect "grade" on the belt test, even though I know that there's a few things I could have done better.  I guess this explains why I just found the most perfect sport for me--something that plays on my inner perfectionist, that one that makes lists and is super organized (the one that virtually disappeared after I got married and had kids).

On the knitting front, I continue to be a knitting demon.  I have made 3 hats this week.  I met my friend in Minneapolis while I was there, and in honor of meeting her I made her a "raspberry beret".  I mean, because, well, you know. Prince.  I also got a request to make a cloche-type hat with a flower for my other friend, which I whipped up last night.  And I just started on the Olympic hat...whee!

I hope to have this done no later than tomorrow night.  I have to go to DC for work Wed-Sunday, so I want to bring a sock project with me.  Socks are so easy and fun...and portable.  I'm hoping to make a few pairs in my quiet evenings post-work.  Yes, I'm a wild woman.

The Pay it Forward Project

So I don’t normally get into the spammy chain status deals on Facebook.  You know what I’m talking about, the ones that remind you that there’s x% of people in the world who haven’t been able to hug a unicorn and only 2% of people will have the courage to copy this status and post this on their status for 24 hours.  I’m far too interested in talking about myself to post something someone else made up.  But after the new year, I saw one that caught my eye.  It was the “Pay it Forward” project, where you posted the “rules” on your status, and then the first five people to respond would receive something hand made from you if the poster agrees to make something hand made for five people in the next year.

The little knitting angel that sits on my shoulder and encourages me to perform random acts of kindness perked up.  So I broke my personal rule of not repeating chain Facebook statuses and decided to do this.  And it gave me a reason to try out some super cute patterns I had recently downloaded from ravelry.  Here’s my favorite of all five projects (so far, I still have 2 to go):

1.        Norwegian Star Hat for Whitney: Whitney is this extremely gorgeous blonde who used to babysit Lulu.  She was the perfect match for this design…

                                                                                                                                                 

 Anyway, I had to share.  I'm working on another one, a much larger project for a friend who I've been meaning to knit for but get sidetracked from her project with cute hat patterns.  I'll post pics on this one later.