Back to School Craziness

I've been busy getting B and M ready for going back to school.

Meetings with guidance counselors, meeting with new principal about parent council, prepping portfolios of B's work...

Since I homeschooled B last year, it's taken a little bit more effort than if she'd moved from the elementary school to the high school. She wanted to challenge herself and do two years in one. She was amazing. She worked so hard and accompished so much that we'd like her to get credit for all her hard work. It's meant a number of meetings with the guidance counsellor to ensure they have the information they need and we have the assistance we need. It's looking like it will be quite an easy transition.

All the busyness makes for less knitting time - but I'm up to 31 hexipuffs! Hexipuff production is slowing down some, as I'm out of small skeins of fingering weight wool and have had to start spinning up Phat Fiber samples in order to knit more. I'm averaging about 2 puff out of each sample.

I Broke my Tea Pot today...

...and made more hexipuffs. But I didn't want to put that in the post title, in case hexipuffs are becoming boring for anyone but me.

I was packing a lunch for B this morning. As I reached for the granola bars, a bottle of Frank's Red Hot Sauce fell out of the cupboard and fell onto my full teapot, shattering the teapot, and spilling tea everywhere. Words were said that shouldn't have been, but at least it wasn't as bad as what B heard when the basement was flooding. If you've seen the commercials for Frank's, you might find it funny that my son's comment was "You really do put that beep on everything - but maybe next time, not the teapot"

I had to go sit and knit a hexipuff to recover from losing another teapot. If you are a teapot and live in this house, your days are numbered. Apparently I'm a bit hard on them.



Hexipuffs 1 through 13
They were outgrowing the flower vase and are now in this lovely container.

Back to School Shopping

Not too much knitting. I took M back to school shopping. We bought notebooks, erasers, socks, jeans, shirts, runners, a backpack and a brand name sweatshirt he may decide to sleep with tonight.

There might be a few more hexipuffs though...

A Hexipuff a Day, Keeps Insanity at Bay

Have you seen this!!!!

You have to check out Tiny Owl's video too. She's very excited about hexipuffs! I think it may be contagious.

I just found out about it on Pink Lemon Twist's blog last night around 10pm and now I have three hexipuffs!



I haven't got full out hexipuffitis yet though, as I'm not planning to attempt a quilt; only a rocking chair cushion.

I found a rocking chair that is the perfect height for me at a recent garage sale, but it needs some padding to make it more comfortable. I was considering weaving something to make a cushion out of, but then the hexipuffs found me.

I'm using various samples of yarn and fluff from my Phat Fiber boxes. I'm sticking to laceweight (held double) and fingering weight. Some of my handspun is too thin for sock weight and too thick doubled so I've needed to tweak the pattern by casting on fewer or more stitches to get hexipuffs that are all the same size.



The scarf pictured with my new-to-me chair was made with another garage sale find: a $0.50 ball of Mohair Glitter, which strangely enough, contains no mohair. I wove it on my 24inch Ashford Rigid Heddle Loom.