I'm still here.....

Yes, I'm still here, though extremely busy being a mom.... checking homework (and helping when needed), driving to ballet classes, rehearsals and shows, sitting in a gymnastics studio watching four year olds jump around, playing with my own four year old - ok, that part is fun, most of the time - and knitting for my sanity while doing some of this.
To be honest, I did take some time to go to a yarn shop with my friend. I had a great time! We even had lunch together, something I don't do very often without the kids. In the yarn store I felt like a little kid in a candy store.... we were touching everything we saw, and ended up with some wonderful mohair yarn... for mohair it is very soft and its colors really impressed me. I picked a dark blue haze with purple undertones..... it will look wonderful no matter what I'll make from it.... it calls for a very lacy, wisper light something - yes, for me..... I wanted to get way more, it was hard to walk out of there with just a few skeins, but I do need to downsize some of my stash before I can do that..... it also helped that we were together and talked things over before jumping to buy everything soft that we touched. I know I'll be back there though - my days of shopping for yarn at Joann's are over...
I did manage to knit/design a new hat and matching fingerless gloves, I'll try to post them soon, though learning from my past mistakes, I asked one of my friends to test knit them for me before I'll publish them. I learned in the meantime that this is what real designers do - and they also have a technical editor..... I wouldn't need one for a hat or gloves, but for a more complicated sweater it might help.... there is quite a bit of math - algebra, to be exact - involved in figuring out all the different sizes for a sweater... I should have my kids do it, they need the practice....
so... I'm still here, but I'll go to bed soon, and hope to post just a little bit more often.