Knitting and Movie Weekend

It is a Scout Hike weekend, and for me that translates to a Knitting/Movie weekend. I have control of the TV and video rentals - so far the weekend has been very productive both knitting and movie wise.

The hearty men and boys left after school on Friday. Luckily the temp rose all day on Friday because it started out at 0 degress F at 6am. It was in the 20's by the time they hit the road. Once they were gone, I had a couple of neighbors over for a glass (or 3) of wine and snacks. They were here for a couple of hours, which did cause me some minor frogging on my post wine knitting. However, it was nice to catch up with everyone. We used to do happy hours almost every Friday, but we don't get it done as often these days, mainly because of the need to drive the children all over creation!

We chatted and planned 2 movie outings, 1 today, and 1 tomorrow. Today we saw Juno, which was really very good. It is PG13, and I would stick with that, really not appropriate for younger kids. Tomorrow we are going to see Atonement.

For the rentals, I watched Once on Friday night, and Reign over me tonight. I liked them both, good characters with plenty of flaws. I also rented The Dog Problem which seems to be along the same lines. I must have been in a weird mood when I went to pick them out.

Now for knitting. I worked most of the weekend on a Letter Sweater Cardigan that I am donating to Mardi Gras (our School/Church dinner and silent auction.) I should have started this earlier - but I didn't! I just have to put on the button band and sew it all together. I am blocking right now, so hopefully it will be dry tomorrow so I can get it finished, de-dog haired, and give it a nice presentation. I am also donating a felted bag in school colors. I may (will)have to redo that one because my intarsia skills were lacking!




Lastly, I got a great box of yarn for secret knitting today in the mail - all hand dyed and georgous. I have lots of ideas in my head for these yarns, and I can't wait to start swatching and drawing. I was really hoping that it would arrive on Thursday or Friday so I could have played with it all weekend. But you know, it was really better that it arrived today, or I would not have made so much progress on the Letter Sweater. Wish me luck with it!