Karen Squared

I didn’t make either of last weeks goals but I wasn’t too far off. I am this close to finishing up the Vogue cardigan fronts. I hope to finish this sweater up in the next week.

And while I made it to the gussets of the No-Purl Monkeys, I didn’t get the decreases done. Ah well. This week I’ll shoot for finishing up the gussets and getting half the feet done. We’ll see how that goes. To be honest, if I am able to finish up my cardigan, I’ll be happy.

In the bathroom renovation news, Michael redid the wiring and adding the wiring for an overhead light and another outlet. Before he was an IT person, he was an electrician and that comes in really handy with fixing up a house. We also picked out the tile and bought the 1/4″ plywood to cover the subfloor, which isn’t in the greatest shape after removing the tile. The plywood is going down this weekend.

We got this lovely little surprise in the garage ceiling on Sunday.

This happens to be right under the other bathroom upstairs. The one we are *not* working on of course! This will be the third leak in this house in the 4 years we have lived here. Luckily 2 of the 3 leaks only ruined the garage ceiling. No other house I have lived in has had leaks like this. I’ve never been so scared of plumbing.

Happy Wednesday! And I hope you didn’t fall for any practical jokes today! I’ve been safe so far, but it’s early still.

I didn’t quite make my goal of 2 pattern repeats for each no-purl monkey sock. I completed 2 repeats on one sock and only one on the other.  I think the socks will need one more repeat before the start of the heel and so that is my goal for this week. Finish up one repeat on sock #1 and two repeats on sock #2 and start the heel flaps.

I also didn’t make my goal of 11 inches of ribbing for the Vogue cardigan fronts. I am a little shy of 8 inches and my goal this week is to finish up the ribbing and get started on the lace section.

As for the never-ending bathroom project… this past weekend we ripped out the remaining tile. By “we” I mean Michael you know. My elbow still hurts from the last time I tried smashing tile. There are little bits of tile stuck all over that wouldn’t come up and I’ll have to get those up with a heat gun soon. Probably this week. That pipe you see in the left side of the picture was for the central vac. It was hidden in the vanity and went through the wall to the hallway. Michael had to cut the pipe to get the vanity out so that he could get the tile out from under the vanity. Except when he did all that, he saw there was no tile under the vanity after all. Damn. He was not a happy camper. We weren’t replacing the vanity, so that was a lot of work for nothing. Glad it wasn’t me as I would never hear the end of it.

Happy Wednesday!