Still Here...New Look...New Topics

Just want to say that I'm still here...still knitting...and still caught up in life.
I'd like to try and take the blog in a new direction, which will still include my knitting but lead into some other areas that interest me.
For those of you still out there, thanks for sticking with me {and I know it's been over a year since I posted}, and keeping track on Ravelry.
Hope you all enjoy the new and improved Cactusneedles!

Girl Power vs. Caveman

A tiny chicken!

So...the other night I had a meeting of a volunteer sporting organization. In this meeting, one of the fellow board members (who has said snarky things about girls in the past), said something about a player that was uncalled for. The discussion revolved around a certain player and how he wouldn't select her to a team because she was a"girly-girl" and "a pretty girl".
I'm sorry, but that really annoyed me. As a mother of a girl, who also plays this particular sport, I was appalled and offended that he would say this and that no one else at this meeting spoke up about it.
My response to him was that it was not appropriate for him to say that and as a parent to a girl, and all the others there also have girls (except him by the way), I was insulted that he would say that just because a girl was pretty, she couldn't play tough.

Really?
Maybe I should make him a tiny caveman from the MochiMochi book of tiny mochimochi (which might I add I've become super-duper addicted to).

Can you guess what I've been doing lately?

Three pairs of soccer gauntlets all in navy and white (the white does have silver sparkles).
Can you guess where I've been hanging out?
One was for my LittleOne and then her two team-mates. {This pattern did come from polarknit.com--their web site is a little wonky today.)

Just some hats I knitted recently...the green one and the pink one are the same pattern and super quick easy to make.

This one's from the book Knitted Gifts.


And this one's the Peek-A-Boo Cloche from Lace Style.

New Year

Wow!
Where has the time gone?
Another new year is here and almost a week into it!
I'm still knitting...mostly posting on Ravelry...so check there for any new projects I'm doing.

Trying to Keep Up

As the title implies, I'm trying to keep up with my blog. I've missed it. I can write things that I normally wouldn't say out loud as well as get ideas and inspiration from everyone out there.
I started a new hat last night...I know, more hats, but I love them and this one has called to me ever since I read the pattern book.
And it's lace.

OMGoodness!

Tully the Pug (last year).

I really, really, really didn't mean to let the blog go all by it's lonesome for so long. {I think I was on a mental vacation for a while!}
I apologize profusely to it!
Wow! It's July. Mid-July at that. What's been going on? Well...school's been out for almost a month. The LittleOne was an All-Star for her softball league (they came in second in the city)!
The Cactus house went on vacation (Colorado Springs again). Both munchkin's are in soccer camp this week. Three weeks or so of lounging around then {while watching Tully the pug pictured above}...school starts in August.
Oh...knitting-wise you ask? Well...I started some socks, started a real involved tunic, and a classic-styled pullover. All three of which are still not completed.

I will try, I promise, to post more often. And maybe even have a picture or two of my WIP's.
:)

Still Here...

Yes, I know it's been quite a while, but I'm still here. But not much knitting has been done since I finished the XO Cardigan from Vogue Knitting Winter '09/'10. I've been spending most of my days working and then the nights on a baseball/softball field.
But I'm planning on some baby stuff (no, not for me), for my oldest teacher is having a baby in the summer and if I don't start now, I'll never get anything done! Besides, baby knitting is very portable and shouldn't really take me all that long (I would hope)!
So...until I check back in, hope everything is well with everyone and I'll be back soon!