A Little Yarn On The Side

Yesterday was my 183rd day without buying fabric, making me halfway to a year since it's a leap year.  And I'm 16 days away from my one-year cold sheeping badge. Then again, when I break down and upgrade Jeeves, that will pretty much take care of my personal allowance for the foreseeable future.......

Today I'm going to figure out a way to wear this, which is a scarf from back when I first bought my serger (2008? 2007?).  I know I've actually never worn it, because while I love the idea of scarves, I always lose my nerve to wear them.  In my mind, there's always a chance that someone will tell me that I'm wearing it wrong (and since that is EXACTLY the sort of thing my sister has always enjoyed doing, that isn't as crazy as it sounds).  But I'm going to wear it ANYWAY.  Because that's part of what I'm trying to do with Me Made Monday.  I think the real key to scarves and shawls is just to wear them with confidence, no matter HOW you've put them on, because in reality no one else knows how to wear them either. 

We went for a 2 1/2 mile walk this morning, and after having to rest for a bit, I hit the sewing room!!! This is some of the oldest fabric in my stash, and it's almost a jacket!  Maybe in the morning I can do a couple buttonholes or pin the sleeves on before going to work.  You know, in case I need a jacket soon in our upcoming 100-degree heatwave.......

By now, I'm probably on every yarn and fabric mailing list in the country, but Denver Fabrics is my current favorite.  Their emails are addressed, "Dear Fabric Enthusiast."  Now doesn't that sound better than "Crazy Fabric-Obsessed Hoarder?"

Okay, I haven't actually been to the Bernina store yet, but I have been checking options online.  HOLY COW!  I really would like a bigger embroidery option, and I do know that I really use embroidery, but I have come to the sobering realization that this is going to be the most money I've spent on something I could neither drive nor live in.  So I'm concentrating right now on finishing projects, saving money, and getting every last stitch out of Jeeves. I did remember Me Made Monday, and for the record, it's not the greatest idea for summer.  Yesterday was 95 degrees, and I wore this I think I have worn it, but I haven't worn it for Me Made Monday (and won't be wearing it again until fall) and since it's new this year , it counts for one of my 20 new MMM things.  If I wasn't working, I might have been a bit harsher about that as a rule, but NOW I'm getting all kinds of flexible.   I did get some crafting in on Friday, "some" bei...

This week I had Wednesday off instead of my usual Friday because the piano people at the main store were attending training, so I filled in for them on Thursday and Friday, as well as filling in for the audio person on Thursday and the guitar guy both days.  It was like a music pop quiz.  We were so short-staffed that I didn't get to leave for lunch, which was a bit disappointing because..... I was going to go look at a new sewing/embroidery machine My faithful Jeeves is having problems again.  First it was not being able to tell the difference between needing a new thread color and having an empty thread or bobbin, but that was workable.  Now it's stopping repeatedly during a design saying he's out of thread when he clearly isn't.  This is all fixable (probably), but my embroidery software can't run on a computer system newer than Windows XP.  Microsoft, of course, hasn't supported XP for years, but personally, I've never found Microsoft's "...

Yesterday I got up at 6:00 and took a 3-mile walk before work as it's been so hot that our after work walks are impossible for me right now.  Then I had a super busy day at work and didn't even leave the store until 7:00, so there wasn't any crafting at all yesterday.  I did  remember Me Made Mondays and wore the crop pants that match this jacket, of which I don't seem to have any pictures.  It's supposed to cool off a bit soon to something under 95 at least, so maybe I'll get to wear the jacket soon.  Finding enough things I've made to wear something new every Monday isn't really a problem, but the 20 NEW ones is a bit challenging.  So far, nine things have been new.  I think I need to step up the sewing a bit.  There are a few unworn scarves and shawls, but it's already 97 degrees in the first part of June, so I don't think there are going to be any knitted items for a while. Why does it always seem like my life boils down to: must craft f...

So Theo has figured out what Fridays mean and when they occur, because he's with me as soon as I wake up.  And we certainly did a lot.  We hooped some embroidery, furred up a table runner, and spent a lot of time trying to figure out which thing to lay on to be MOST in the way.  The poor cat--he was up and down on to this piece of fabric, then that one, but I have discovered that 3 projects is the optimum number to make sure that I have access to at least ONE at any given time.  So, I finished two new ornaments, got the rest cut out, and then plopped them in the sink to remove the stabilizer.  (Theo doesn't care much for that part).  I also got a table runner finished yesterday,  and prepped a second that I just finished up this morning, and got this ready for hemming: It's a simple table runner on a woven poly-cotton blend that ravels like crazy, but I bought this fabric at least 2 years ago with this exact project in mind, but had n...