Knit Jones

Weekend recap



Knitting--finished 1.75 sleeves now. Should be able to finish the second sleeve tonight and then I think the easy part is over for this pattern. The sweater will be an Elizabeth Zimmerman special. I am hoping this goes better than my first attempt. While the concept seems easy, the instructions prove difficult since she wrote her patterns more in the form of a chapter of a book than a step by step. I found several steps very confusing making M's saddle sweater and had to call out to my ravelry.com peeps to get me through it. Maybe now that I've done one of her patterns this one will make more sense....



House hunting--it was the kind of weekend that makes us think we are either too picky or we want things that are outside of our budget. We didn't see anything overly promising at any of the open houses this weekend. We are supposed to get our preapproval letter today, when we have it in hand we are going to call one of the agents we met at one of the houses to get some help weeding things out. There was one near some friends of ours that looked very promising in the pics and then of course we get there and it was an instant no. It was actually cuter from the outside than I thought it would be and the inside was not as cute as I thought it would be. Go figure. It had a much older/out of date feel than I thought it would. Several other houses were no's from the second we walked in, one seemed like it had to be a foreclosure even though it wasn't marked as such. There was a distinct smell of cigarettes as soon as you walked in, ashtrays everywhere. They hadn't even taken the time to make their beds! There was one that was cute but built around the same time as our apt now, the windows needed to be replaced. There wasn't much space in the basement for us to be able to have a treadmill and M's music area. The upstairs was very cramped. It was 2 full baths but I didn't like that there was no bathroom on the first floor, one was upstairs and one was in the basement. Nothing has been a perfect fit so far.