#knitvember

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Continuing my knit-vember adventures with super chunky yarn and my big needles. Gift in progress!

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Knitvember day sixteen, almost done with one sleeve. If baby naps as well for the next few days, I'll probably be able to finish in time for his birthday next week!

His birthday present is this, a chocolate cake, and the next day a small Christmas tree. He's one, he doesn't really care. At the moment as long as I'm there he's happy. He's already got plenty of toys.

Well, I'm also buying him a new book too. Always need more books.

Hopefully he doesn't out grow this before the end of winter.

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Knitvember day seven, got a decent amount done. Baby had a good, long nap late this morning. Unfortunately he complained and wanted a nap at 4 too, and so I let him. He didn't go to bed until 9, he's usually asleep by 8 at the latest. No more naps after 4 is now the new rule.

Tomorrow I'm going to load him onto the bike and go about two kms or so. I'm just getting back into shape. I found out that I have a range of 60km on my bike, so that's awesome.

[kaiyonohime]

Knitvember whatever day this is, but it's still knitvember! I finished the sweater, woo! And, the real best part? It mostly fits and the baby likes it! It's a little too big, but that's on purpose. It's too big in a way he'll easily grow into this winter without issue.

I'm so happy. Now I'm going to knit a linen cardigan for myself. For the warmer seasons, I already have wool sweaters. I actually need to finish the sleeves on a wool sweater I knit myself this year, but fuck it. I want a linen cardigan.

I also want lace, but that's harder to pick up and put down whenever I get the chance.

My headache is also almost completely gone. Out of desperation thinking it was a sinus issue I ate a spoonful of horseradish mustard last night. That certainly cleared a lot out. I don't suggest it as medical advice or anything, but it did mostly work. I also live in Japan so our horseradish mustard may be different than yours. This also isn't the first time I've done that, though the first time was an accident.

Either way, baby has a wool sweater for the winter. Yay.

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Knitvember day fifteen. Bound off the body yesterday, started the arm today. The baby keeps trying to grab it when he wanders by, so hopefully he'll like it. I won't finish it by his birthday next week, but oh well. I'm baking him a chocolate cake, he'll love that. He doesn't know when his birthday is anyway.

I also gave him some tofu from the mapo dofu I made. That was a huge hit. After that he kept bitching that I wouldn't give him more spicy tofu. Sorry kiddo, didn't make enough for you too.

He's going to be one next week! And he's getting much better at walking.

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Knitvember day nine. Got very little done because I usually knit and watch stuff on my laptop while the baby naps. But today the wifi wasn't working on my laptop. So I went into full tech mode to figure out what was wrong.

The router just needed to be turned off and then on again. That's all. But it took me a while to get there. And the router was in the room where baby was napping, so I just watched a movie that's saved on my hard drive (Jin-Roh: the Wolf Brigade). So a lot less knitting than intended. But still some. Almost done with the body, then on to the arms. And next week may be cold enough to need a sweater.

Mostly because homes in Japan have no central air, and no insulation, and single pane windows. The cold is there until I manually turn on the heater, and then it's a fight to keep a room warm against the heat escaping to warm outside.

Tomorrow is baby class, so he should toddle himself exhausted with his friends and hopefully go down for a long nap like a champ. With the bonus it's supposed to rain all day. The sound of rain was nearly the only thing that could get him to sleep as a baby.

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Salty Pirates month hasn't gone as I'd hoped. I've been just barely keeping on top of the regular daily chores (feeding myself, doing dishes, and getting garbage, recycling and green waste out to the bins on time, as well as doing laundry and getting that mostly folded and put away), but I haven't tackled many of the deep clean and organize things I was hoping to accomplish.

I have been knitting, though, so even though I didn't cast on for the big project I thought would be my Knitvember project, I did start and finish two pairs of socks (posted previously), and I finished a hat that was in time out since August, and I started a new pair of fingerless mitts, and have completed the first one.

Going to CO the second mitt tonight, and tomorrow I want to go buy yarn to make a pair of socks or slippers for my late husband's mum for Christmas.

Hat pattern is Metallic Magnetism, mitts are Second Skin, both available on Rav

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Two new pairs of handknit socks, all good to go.