Dances With Yarn: Weekend Reno, Haruha, and Football

What do you do when your playroom carpet has worn out its welcome?

Oh and do you remember the old drop-cloth trick?

Hey, with three teens, two dogs, a husband, and a couple of cats spending the majority of their time in this room, a mom's gotta do what a mom's gotta do.

In knitting news, it had been determined (by me) that a particular stealth FO for a particular person's birthday needed a bit of revision (the story can be read on my Ravelry page) so it was carefully unbound, tinked back a bit, and painstakingly placed back on the needles to be "altered" and then re-bound off. Making the decision to revise this FO (which was fine to begin with, but I knew it could {and should} be better) wasn't easy but I'm so glad now that I did it. I've also been steadily working on my Haruha scarf, which seems to be taking longer than I thought it would. I'm about 34 inches into it (unblocked) and I'm thinking it should probably be about 60" long -- does that sound right for a scarf? Believe it or not, other than some scarves crocheted out of some fugly novelty yarn years ago, this is the first "real" scarf I've ever knit. I'm using Rowan Classic's CashCotton 4 Ply which is a super soft yarn -- I just hope that it will hold its shape after it's been blocked. It took just one skein to do all 34", so two skeins should do the trick. And can I just say that I'm loving lace right now? I just can NOT get enough of lace knitting lately. It does take some concentration though, which isn't always easy, but when the house is quiet and I'm able to focus a bit, I pick up a lace project and am completely absorbed.

In other news, Football Star Son came home last weekend for Homecoming, and this was about all I got to see of him.

He actually turned around at one point and asked me if I was okay because I was being so quiet. Ha. Anyway, several people have asked me how he's doing at school, and to be honest, I don't really know. I do know that FSS is DEFINITELY spreading his wings, perhaps a little too far, but nothing out of the norm for a kid going away to his first semester of college. Grade-wise, only time will tell in that arena, as there are no progress reports or parent/teacher conferences to rely on. Yep, it's a lot of wait-and-see right now.... something I am NOT very good at, but am slowly learning. Of course, there are two other teens who keep me very busy these days too....