Suprise, it's a party

Let’s see, what do I blog about today?

Camping at the Casino was fun. Tom really loves his camper. We drove down on Thursday and came back on Sunday. When we got up on Friday morning, I found mushrooms had grown up in the yard around the camper. Weird stuff.

Before we went to England we had a smaller camper, we used it just about every other weekend to go to Corpus Christi. When we came back to SA from UK, we bought a great house, put in a pool and spa. We got a new camper (larger with slides), but we don’t go to the coast like we did. Now we use the camper to go to the casino. The camper has all the conveniences of home, but you can pull it along. If I’m going camping, it’s gotta be in the camper.

Now for some knitting content.
I’ve started knitting Striped Modular vest from Creative Knitting Sept 2008. I made a few changes. Instead of using Berroco Jasper, I substituted Patons SWS. This is a soy Wool self striping yarn. It’s 70% Wool and 30% soy. You know me, I love using markers instead of counting, so I made a change to the pattern. Instead of knitting 3 together, I used knit 2 together twice with a marker between the decrease stitches. I’m not sure I would have tried a modular vest if I hadn’t taken a class with Anne Modesitt last fall. She showed me how to do the decrease in a modular purse. That gave me the confidence to try the vest.

So far the vest has been an easy knit. If this “test” vest works, I may make another for a Christmas gift.
Do you realize that Christmas is just around the corner? Keep on knitting.

Road Trip update

On our recent “road trip” I noticed that turn signals have become optional and speeding is the norm. I watched cars flying down the highway, weaving in and out of heavy traffic and never using the turn signal. There were so many near misses that I stopped counting. The worst offenders were the 18 wheelers, many of them had “dangerous” cargo. what were they thinking?

As for our gambling, I came home with more money than I left with. Tom just about broke even. That means it was a great trip.
I even finished the Surprise Baby Jacket. It looks like sherbet ice cream. I haven’t sewed it together yet and I haven’t decided if I want to put a collar on it.

We're Back and...

Well, it's almost my birthday (23 Aug), but I'm already celebrating. I have a new laptop, new scrapbook software, and we are leaving 21 Aug to go camping at the Grand Casino Coushatta. Camping our style

Be back next week. Yes, I'm taking my knitting. EZ Suprise Baby Jacket is waiting to be cast on. I'm using Snuggly DK in various pastel shades. I seem to have lots of that. I love knitting EZ SBJ. See you next week.