A Little Yarn On The Side

  And ready for Me Made Monday tomorrow .  And since I can't remember if I already did one for last week, I had a chance to wear my new yellow floral jacket for the very first time ye sterday: so I'm feeling a bit Amish this week.  I even started Andy's Valentine's Day gift.  I KNOW!  It isn't even March yet.  Aren't I just speedy...............?

So 2 weeks ago I got a message from an old boss that there were a couple openings with her group in Oregon that she wanted to talk to me about and would follow up on the following Monday.  Granted, we'd already decided that I'd start looking for a job in Oregon, but that kicked us into high gear because of the possible short time frame--hence all the frantic cleaning/sorting.  And then I never heard back from her.  It's kind of weird and disappointing, but I'm more worried that she'll feel bad and potentially draw back as a friend, because she's far more important to me as a person than any job is.  And it DID get some tidying of the sewing room accomplished, so I'm kind of grateful for that with or without a job. I am still pursuing jobs outside of Idaho, and with that in mind, I decided to cancel my Vogue Knitting subscription.  I had canceled all knitting magazine subscriptions several years ago, but there was recently a pretty tempting offer for t...

If you think I've fallen behind on this blog, some of these are Christmas gifts that hadn't yet been shipped, and this is the current status of Andy's Valentine's day gift.  Ahem............ There has been crafting.  Remember the stack of new towels to embroider? 9 out of 12 are now embroidered.  These are all new designs, which is really fun.  We give away embroidered towels as host/hostess gifts, and I've been doing it for so long that it's fun to have new designs that I know no one has even seen before.  And I'm NOT just saying that to try to rationalize all the new designs.  I'd need more towels for that.  I have also finished two of the small University of Idaho table runners, and I'm ready to bind the next one: On this one I added a little decorative stitching for quilting, but it isn't really necessary as I used fleece for the backing.  I think I'll do a decorative stitch "tie" with the two larger ru...

Since the wonderful Larry was able to fix my embroidery machine, I have been so excited that I've gone a bit overboard with buying embroidery designs--I admit it.  However, I have this whole new stack of towels to embroider, and today my favorite site had this design for $1.39: Can you blame me?

Here it is, February 8, and I'm just now finding time to sit down and upload some pictures. Last week I went up to visit my parents for a few days.  They're having an even worse winter at the ranch than we are, and these were taken 2 snowstorms ago.  I actually came back early to beat one of them. We've also been dealing with this: Thanks to the snow load, our back porch roof is pulling away from the house now, and dealing with contractors in Idaho is a tricky thing as they don't have to be licensed or have any sort of qualifications, so you have to find one via referral if you don't want a disaster.  I'm beginning to really hate snow, and was really hoping that yesterday's snow would melt off by itself.  Instead, I got to shovel a bunch of really heavy and wet slush-snow late in the afternoon, as well as clearing the gutter because our next door neighbor--even though she's actually helped CLEAR them of snow--continues to shovel the snow...