A Little Yarn On The Side

Since I finished this on Friday,   I'm wearing it today.  I haven't even washed it yet, but I don't care.   It's new. Saturday was painfully slow at work.  It was a cold, rainy day, and the weather really affects traffic at the store.  I tuned all the ukuleles, taught myself how to properly hold a cello bow and get a sound out of the thing, practiced guitar and piano, watched some training videos, and was STILL bored.  So   Meet the new knitting project for work.   I'm using "Intense" in Cascade's Heritage Paints, and I love it.  Of course, I love MOST sock yarn.  When I bought yarn back in July, I bought some "extra" yarns and instead of logging them all in my stash, I bagged them up with little cards listing how much I paid and that sort of thing, and put them all in a bin.  One of the things that makes Cold Sheeping difficult is the lack of NEW YARN, so it was a way to surprise myself once in a while without resorti...

That's a LOT of sewing.  I'm not sure I'll make it to 200 yards for the year, but it is REALLY nice to get some projects finally done. Last night I wanted to unwind with some simple knitting, and my current knitting projects are in trickier spots, so I dug out one of my "surprise" projects: In July of last year, before climbing back on the sheep, I ordered several yarns for projects, bagged them up with the details, and put them away as future "surprises" for myself when I was feeling the need for new yarns.  This is the first one, and sure enough, I had forgotten all about this yarn so it was a surprise.  Could we have guessed it would be lace yarn?  It's another Begonia Swirl shawl, and I have already cast on.  I love it already!