Well, we took Ben to the doctor Saturday morning. He spent most of Thursday and Friday sleeping on the wood floors in our house (his choice, not mine). Then he threw up Friday evening, had hardly eaten or drank anything for the past three days, and would just lie on the floor and moan (or sleep). He wouldn’t tell us where he hurt, though. Steve made a bed for him on the living room floor Friday evening and went to bed himself on the couch. Around midnight he started crying again and Steve was unable to console him so he got me up and I decided to call the doctor. The doctor said he didn’t think we needed to go to the emergency room but that we should bring him by the office the next morning.
After a fairly simple exam by the doctor – listen to the back, listen to the chest, feel the tummy, look in the ears… Ah, Ben has an ear infection. Yes, he is 3 1/2 years old, and this is his first ear infection.
The doctor gave us an antibiotic to give him, and needless to say, he is feeling much better. Yesterday, he got out all of his toys and played with them – he had to use his rocking horse as a stool to get into the tote where I had stashed them in an effort to limit the number of toys in circulation and thus limit the clutter (so much for that idea!). This morning, he got ahold of one of my balls of yarn and unraveled it. Like I said, he is feeling much better…
I spent the morning thus far writing up some of my knitting patterns. Of course, they are not ready to publish yet. I simply have something that I can edit. I’m developing my own style of writing patterns, and it is quite fun.
My inspiration for this recent flourish of pattern writing activity? Saturday afternoon I went to my knitting group, and while there I passed around one of my latest finished objects – a set of mittens. These were not your average mittens, of course. They have an invisible gusset as well as a couple of tricks that minimize the holes that seem to always appear at the base of the thumb.
Right now I am knitting a little sweater for the daughter of a dear friend of mine. She saw this sweater that I knit for our new baby and wanted one for her little girl in purple and pink. Needless to say, it’s fun to knit in girly colors.
Here is a picture of the original sweater:
That little sweater is one of my first designs. It is knit in one piece from the bottom up. And yes, those are set-in sleeves you see. I don’t mind seaming, but I hate sewing in sleeves because they never line up exactly either stitch to stitch or row to row. This little sweater has short-row sleeves which are knit in such a way that the stripes line up perfectly. It’s tricky to the point of being quite clever…at least that’s what I think.
This time I am writing up the pattern as I go. Perhaps when I’m finished, I shall submit it for publication. Perhaps. Right now I’m just having fun writing it up.