I’m thinking about making this Mom’s Bag for the Sew I Knit along. It’s from For Sweet Baby. This will be challenging for me seeing as I don’t read Japanese. But I hope I’ll be able to figure it out by looking at the pictures. It seems to be just rectangular shapes. Seems easy enough. I can do that. And I think I’ll add pockets inside.

Here are the other pictures of the bag from the book.

Isabelle has started screaming. I think it’s just for the fun of hearing her own voice. She just started doing it one day. So I did it back to her. Aaaah!! she goes. Then aaaaaahhh!! I go. Back and forth or both at the same time. And she smiles and screams and smiles. And Alan says I’m teaching her to scream. But I didn’t teach her to scream. She started it and I’m playing along. Ok scream sounds sort of extreme. More like a holler…

Tonight as I was laying in bed next to my little sleeping Isabelle, I thought I noticed something dark on the wall. I looked closely but nothing was there. Then I saw movement on the headboard, it had dropped lower. It wasn’t on the wall anymore! It was a spider and it was within a foot of us!! I am SCARED of spiders! I usually am too scared to even get close to killing them. I usually call Alan to kill them. But this spider was near Isabelle.

So me protecting my daughter, I quietly got out of bed and grabbed a tissue paper and smoooooshed the shit out of it! I was so freaked out! I could feel and hear it’s body crunch under my fingers. Now I’m all shaky from the adrenaline. And I keep feeling phantom tickles on me thinking about the creepy thing. But I did it. I killed it! I feel like a mother lion! And all over killing a tiny spider…ahem a big freaking gigantic monstrous spider that meant to harm my child. Rawr!!

This is Isabelle screaming. Watch video here. Oh and notice the unassisted sitting!

I finished the second big bad baby blanket! Yay! And now, believe it or not, I am finally getting around to trying to finish some of my unfinished projects. I was very disciplined. I did not start a new project even though it is oh so tempting to start that victorian lace shawl I mentioned months ago. I was very good. Instead I am knitting the earflaps for the Miss Dashwood hat that ummm has been waiting for them since October. OCTOBER!!

Look who arrived today from Hop Skip Jump all the way in Australia: Winifred and Werner!!! Isabelle seems to like them!

Well here are the earflaps and ties for the Miss Dashwood hat. Ummm…but where’s the hat? I can’t find it. Does anyone know what I did with it? Guess that’s what happens when you don’t touch a project for months.

However, I did find my lace pattern scarf that I haven’t touched in TWO years. If I can find the chart I’ll work on that.