A Little Yarn On The Side

My little sidekick is in deep disgrace this week. Now you may not be able to find it in the picture but there is a live bird hidden in the greenery.  This planter resides here which, being inside the house, is a rather unfortunate place to have a bird.   Especially when the bird isn't bright enough to notice the open door below, or to even notice the arctic air blast coming into the house through the open door.  Nope, it took a step ladder, a feather duster, two humans, and this   to catch the darn bird. Jjust in case you ever need to know this, covering the top does actually decrease the number of times a frightened bird will fling itself against a Rubbermade container while your spouse frantically looks for something large enough to slide under the container to carry the bird outside and away from the cats.  Not eliminate, but reduce.  The bird was able to fly away after Andy released in into the yard, though it may be suffering a little post-tr...

Planting the garlic in 32-degree temperatures before the snow came, and baking whole wheat bread.  And it turns out that one doesn't sufficiently warm you up after the other.  Go figure.  Tomorrow is Finishing Friday!  Whoo hoo!!!

You know, some days the commenters are funnier than I am!  :)

.....but there is a garden plot almost ready for the garlic and there's freshly baked zucchini bread.  I know--it doesn't help me much with the Double Dog Dare challenge, but on the other hand, knitting NEVER makes the house smell this good. 

The pirate costume pants required MORE buttons than the pattern said it would. I know, quite shocking, wasn't it?  Who would EVER have seen that coming? Since I am listening to Christmas music in spite of it still being October, so I have decided to be charitable.  Perhaps the folks at Simplicity have decided on some sort of new outreach program where they employ those who cannot read, or perhaps they are working with those suffering from drug addictions, which I could admire.  Of course, I might have saved the actual pattern-writing jobs for those NOT taking drugs, but that's just me.....

Be honest now.  Is there anyone who didn't see that one coming? This one was so predictable that even I saw it coming--and you know, that's saying something.  Last night when I was sewing on THE NUMBER OF BUTTONS THE PATTERN ACTUALLY SAID IT WOULD USE, I made sure to do a little spacing on the cuffs so that the new buttons--which would never match the old buttons--would make a design of sorts.  Of course, as it turns out, there were exactly two choices for buttons in gold and the right size, so I'm not even close to matching here, but I think it will be dark at the party anyway.  The old buttons and the new buttons If anyone asks, we're going for authenticity, because at the time that this sort of thing would have been worn, buttons would have been seriously unlikely to match anyway.  Fair enough, they wouldn't have been all shiny & gold either, but that's another story.  At any rate, I think they'll work.  And he who complains can make...

Andy's FINISHED pirate costume coat complete with the 28 buttons that the pattern envelope said it would need.  I'm off to the store tomorrow to track down the remaining 6 buttons that the coat actually requires.   What is it with designers???????????????