Down to the Wire
Today is Andy's birthday and at least the shirt is in progress. The pattern does say it's a 3 hour shirt, but the cruise of S.S. Minnow was a 3-hour-cruise ( a three hour cruise....) , and look how THAT turned out. Still, we are having friends over tonight and I have sworn to stay away from the garden so I'll be mobile tonight, so spending the day working on the shirt could keep me out of trouble........ Speaking of trouble, I have rounded up the items on my list (plus one impulse buy: which isn't quite as insane as it looks because the shawls in Victorian Lace Today are notorious for using more yarn than stated, so this way I'm ready for her). I obviously don't need it NOW, but now that I have tracked down this for the colorwork ornaments, and this because my royal blue yarn is running low, it's just me and the stash for the next few years. I did pick up some yarn for men's scarves because gifts are always the weak point, and I thoug...