For A Friend's Baby

A special friend is having a baby and a shower on January 26.  I had to wait until I was paid to buy the yarn and the pattern.  I didn't just fall in love with any pattern.  It had to be a set with a lovely figured pattern in Norwegian. That is not one of my languages.

I know my friend would love it.  I think I have a way figured out.  The same stitches are featured in a dress designed by the same person and it's offered in English!  I can compare the two.  There's also Google Translate and translation offered by DROPS. If I hadn't knit anything like this before, I wouldn't bother.  I had some success figuring out a Japanese pattern.

I ordered the yarn from Webs which is in a nearby state.  I've gotten their yarn quickly before.  I wonder if I can really pull it off.  Sometimes I can be too ambitious.  I keep telling myself these are pieces for a tiny, little baby.  I had better start printing the patterns and translating them.

UPDATE

I was close to figuring out the pattern, but I had a feeling there were construction details I wasn't picking up on.  I decided on the Henrik Baby Set by Tove Richter instead that was in English.  Reading it, it seems to have come  from a Norwegian designer with the same sort of construction detail so maybe I can figure out the other pattern for the future.

Pass Up LG Commercial Front-Load Washer

Tonight I decided to try the LG Commercial Washer with Inverter Direct Drive at my local laundry mat.  My favorite washers were being used.  I forgot about the older front-load washers.  I wish I hadn't.  It seems like the LG washers are only good if your clothes are basically clean anyway. Or possibly you have to fill it only half full. I did not pack my clothing in. It was not all full and the clothing was still loose.

Not all the cat puke was removed from my clothing (one shirt and a couple socks).  This is the first time in using laundry mats in recent memory that this happened. Some of the puke was nicely broken up and distributed on all the clothing.  I had to shake them out when I took them out of the machine. I never had to do that before. The cat puke stains on my jeans aren't gone either so I have to wash them over again.  The shirt I'll do by hand.  I saw there was some stray detritus left in the washer. There is something in me that makes me really not like taking my laundry out to wash, so having to wash something twice is very annoying.

If you're someone who's likely to have cat puke, dog puke, or kid puke on your clothing, and maybe just food stains in general, I don't think you want to use these machines.  I guess the future the engineers envisioned was entirely devoid of mess and bother, food, pets and babies.