More Rogue, Again

But first, the baby! John’s grandson Huck was finally born Friday night. Here’s a just-born photo:

Even though he’s a respectable 9lbs, 2 ozs, the Jolly Green Sweater won’t fit him for awhile. I made his mom promise to get a picture of him in it eventually. He’s of course perfect, which makes four perfect grandchildren in a row for John. We’re all glad he’s finally here!

Here’s where I am on Rogue:

If that looks suspiciously like where I was a week ago, look again:

One sleeve down, one more to go. I had forgotten just how much fun this pattern is. I knit a row, and think, well, I really need to get up and do something else. Then I look at the cable chart, and think, well, really, I’ll just knit another row and see how it looks. This, despite the fact that I know how it is going to look, because I’ve done these very same cables on the body already. I’m easily entertained.

Here’s my newest knitting spot:

We have more or less finished this phase of the remodeling project, and have most of it straightened up. That used to be the kitchen, where there was a traditional kitchen table and chairs. As we have a dining room table about ten steps from here, we decided to do away with the kitchen furniture and put in comfortable chairs for people to sit in. Everyone always ends up in the kitchen standing around and talking, so we decided to go with this. It’s a lovely place to sit with a cup of tea and the newspaper, or a glass of bourbon and my knitting, depending on the time of day. We have a new sofa for the living room on order (to replace the one that is ancient and cat-trashed), and I’ll show pictures of that room in its finished state when it’s here. We’re pleased with the whole thing, though my spouse has that look again, so I’m thinking that if I hold him off on more projects until next spring, I’ll be lucky.

A month or so ago I mentioned knitting while getting my hair colored. Someone dared me to post pictures, so here they are, Laurie.

Yes, that’s glop on my eyebrows, too. Here’s what it looks like done:

Yes I know, I forgot to smile. And yes, it’s redder than it used to be. If I choose to believe that this is the color I was born with, so be it. My husband hasn’t quite decided if he wants to be married to a redhead or not.

And last but not least, my favorite Bush-bashing photo of the week. What can I say, he’s so easy to poke sticks at.

Author: Lorette

My name is Lorette. I learned to knit in 1999, and took up spinning in 2009. I'm a physician specializing in internal medicine, and live in the Pacific Northwest. Enjoy my blog!

33 thoughts on “More Rogue, Again”

  1. What a darling babe. Yes, he does look absolutely perfect. I have to say, I’m often to be found with glop on my head while working on a pair of socks – but no way am I going to prove it. hee hee And thanks for the laugh with the Shrub photo.

  2. Totally perfect baby 🙂
    I do have a Rogue question though, if you have time…I;m having a hell of a time with the body. The cable panel looks like nothing I’ve ever seen…it looks like a giant mess. Probably I am knitting-disabled, but moving on.
    My question is, do you know how long it took before the cables actually started looking like something?

  3. Love the shrub pic! Now only if he had been sitting on Trent Lott’s front porch! 😉
    Sweet baby, must be the season for them. And you’re making the Rogue look so easy…hope it really is!!!

  4. Yesyesyes, I do love seeing Knitting Doctor in glop. Well named, well executed. I’m about to glop my hair myself this week, during which, unfortunately, I cannot knit. So you get style (ar ar ar) points for this post.
    Good looking child. Congratulations on perfection to Grandaddy.

  5. Congratulations on that very big, very alert-looking baby! And thanks for reminding me I need to forward that photo to my sis-in-law. Someone sent it to me a few days ago, too.
    And your new knitting nook looks remarkably like mine! I shall have to post a picture of it sometime soon.

  6. Congratulations to John and the entire family on a fine looking grandbaby! Can’t wait to see him in the sweater. And Rogue – what can I say? Why didn’t I make mine in pink? But Rogue and bourbon – how do they go together? If I tried that my cables would be turning every which a way!

  8. What a precious boy! Congratulations! He’s just gorgeous.
    Regarding Rogue, I have come to the conclusion that the charts in that pattern are somehow laced with heroin. I get started and I can’t stop myself. I have hit a glitch with the cabled V neck (can’t get my beginning increases to not leave-insert unlady like word here- hole!) but that is the only thing that has slowed me down. That pattern is amazing and totally addictive.

  11. That baby photo make me want to pick that sweet thing up and feel his velvety head against my cheek. Missing my babies, but not ready to be a grandparent,
    Li

  14. Welcome Baby…he is gorgeous!
    Your knitting place is so light and airy 🙂
    The Rogue is beautiful and the spice of cable on it…can’t wait to see the finished proj. I think your hair came out great! so much to comment on…and then the B pic…I about feel off my chair!!!!!

  15. Must have been a glop kind of weekend. I glopped my locks back to what I think is the natural light brown. We’ll know in a month, I guess.
    Congrats on Huck! He’s a tank!

  16. Oh what a sweet baby. When my husband and I were just starting to get to know each other, I lived about 6 hours from where I grew up. He lived in between where I grew up and where I was living (which is where we live now) anyway on my way home one visit I stopped and met his parents. Then I went home, and there I died my hair about the color you show in your picture, and then headed back home and stopped to say hi again. What I didn’t know is my now husband dislikes red hair (well hair that’s been dyed red). I about shocked him. Oh well it must not have done permanent damge we’ve been married 9 years now.

  18. Look at you with your knitting in hand while getting your hair done! Now that’s dedication …or obsession…!
    Very cute baby, and what a great name!

  21. What a gorgeous child!! so perfect at this stage..
    I am SO jealous of your knitting spot. I would not leave that area the whole weekend, what with knitting, reading, napping, etc

  22. What a cherub!! Absolutely heavenly!
    And dahling, you make glop look divine!! You are one of the few people I know (I’m unfortunately not one) who can look good with color glop of her hair and eyebrows.
    Rogue is looking fantastic!

  23. Cutie baby!
    And I feel the same way you do about those cables. If there wasn’t so much of the regular knitting in between, it would be so much more fun. lol
    I have my pocket attached now. I knit slow so, it will get done eventually. Yours looks fabulous, can’t wait till you get it together.
    🙂

  26. Oh my!! What a darling little one. If my tubes weren’t tied.. oh well, that’s another story. Would you believe it, I got my hair colored red-ish the other day too? I so wanted to take my knitting but I was afraid I would somehow get dye all over it. mind you, the item in question is being done in black yarn.. I love how your hair came out!! And the remodeling’s coming along nicely!! Funny how you mention how guests wind up standing in the kitchen; I find myself doing that very same thing when visiting others.. Weird..

  27. Congrats on Baby Huck! I just love babies.
    I love your new knitting spot. What a great view. How could you not want to keep knitting with in such nice surroundings?
    Happy Knitting!

  29. What a sweet baby photo…….nothing quite as nice as the smell of a new baby 🙂
    How perfect is your new knitting spot?? I LOVE it!!!!!

  30. oh you are a bad girl.. hee..hee.. and congrats on the cute munchkin.. adorable.. and i like that you have no qualms about being photographed while getting your hair done.. i also knit away while getting mine done too:-) they always make me promise to make them something.. but i’m so far behind.. about 14 years.. eeek.. that it might be awhile.. hee..hee..I love your new knitting spot.. fabulous! and that cable pattern is stunning! 🙂 all the best Karola

  31. Adorable babe and amazing rogue. It’s great to here that the renos are coming along, I am just about to undertake some and I am a little stressed..but if they look half as good as yours then all shall be well

  32. Hello,
    lovely baby, and nice project too.
    i was made a hat for a baby too, since it was made on order, i didnt see the baby, so for try out, i wore the hat on my teddy’s..;)
    i love the pink yarn too!! 🙂

Comments are closed.

Discover more from The Knitting Doctor

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading