Art of Gluten-Free Baking

So Very Tired

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OK, so we’re all sick. Fevers, coughing, sneezing, the whole enchilada. And we’ve been this way for a week (I’ve been this way for 2 weeks). Just when I think I’m better, I get smacked with another round of fevers, etc. Please make it stop. Girlfriend has missed a week of school, dAhub has missed several days of work, and I am tired and tired of it.
To keep us amused, we’ve been battling what I hope is the last mouse-bat. We captured it last night in dAhub’s homemade, humane mouse trap. The regular humane mouse traps apparently were too big for this little one (it would go in, eat the food and skipper out). So, we got some non-humane mouse traps (i.e., fatal). Well, the mouse-bat would do the same thing, go in, get the food, and skipper out without triggering the trap. Sheesh.
Because this is clearly his life’s work, dAhub did an internet search and found plans for a homemade humane mouse trap. It looks like this.

That’s one of my yard waste cans, over which is suspended a paper towel tube with some rice at the end. The mouse is supposed to climb out to the end to get the rice, and causing the tube and mouse to tip into the can. Well, it worked. See that tiny gray thing? That’s the (hopefully last) Moby Mouse-Bat.

Kind of shocking how something so tiny could wreak so much havoc on one’s life.

Anyway, the mouse-bat is now trolling the park next door with the other ones.

I have been knitting. It’s all I can do while I lay around feeling tired. Behold:

Pattern: Village Vest by Oat Couture
Yarn: Wool of the Andes from KnitPicks in Avocado
I knit this for my friend, Sara in Chicago, who received it and loved it. I enjoyed this pattern a lot–it is very clever.

Next:

Pattern: Saranac from Knitty
Yarn: Wool of the Andes from KnitPicks in Fern

This has been finished for quite some time, but I needed to sew in a zipper, which stopped everything for months. It’s for dAhub. He’s been wearing it a lot on his middle-of-the-night-taking-the-mouse-to-the-park treks.

Next, a WIP:

Pattern: Snow Forest, by Annabel Fox in the Rowan Fox Tweed Book
Yarn: Annabel Fox Tweed (I think)

I made this sweater 7 years ago when I was pregnant with Girlfriend. I sized it up thinking I would need it very large because I was pregnant. Well, it was too big for me when I was pregnant and it’s been bugging me every since. So, I frogged it all and am re-knitting it. I’m now on the sleeves. See the pretty ruffle border and the snow forest lace?

Finally, a creation by Girlfriend. It’s an owl, in honor of all the Harry Potter movies we’ve been watching while sick:

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  1. Leah

    I have a question:
    I’ve already joined the sleeves to the body but i think I’m decreasing to slowly.
    Shouldn’t the decrease row say “knit to 2sts before the marker, k2tog, SLIP MARKER, ssk”?? I was afraid that decreasing 8 stitches each 2nd round would make things go too quickly.
    any ideas??
    thanks!

  2. Juliet

    I reckon you will miss the final mouse-bat – how else will you keep a full grown man occupied? I think those knitting projects are just gorgeous – love the vest (had to go order the pattern right now), and may end up knitting it with one sleeve – as my desk at work has one side by the window which in an old Edinburgh building means one side of me is so frozen that by lunchtime my right side is completely numb and the other side is quite warm… D’you think the one sided look will catch on?

  3. marti

    sorry to hear that you have been sick. although i loved the mouse-bat stories and the flurry of fo’s have been wonderful.

  4. Cynthia

    how about borrowing a few energentic kitties??…I have 4 mouse-hunters and I’ve never had a problem….I only find the lost micey-ones when I return home from a long vacation, which means the house has been pret-ty quiet except for the hunters!
    Love your knitting projects! I love the vest made with Avacado Knitpicks!