A Little Yarn On The Side

This is my third year of Cold Sheeping, and I am wanting to buy yarn today more than at any other time in the last two and a half years.  Why you might ask? *  I'm still  battling the pantry moths, and while I've certainly made a lot of progress, today I found the little cocoon things in the coffee filters!    *   We have a burner not working on the stove.  Last week when the Sears guy was supposed to come and take a look at it, Sears failed to call and say he was running late, so we waited for 4 hours for the guy, and he called 2 hours AFTER the outside time frame.  And unless he is on our doorstop in 12 minutes or less, the Sears guy is standing us up AGAIN!!!!!! *  Earlier this summer, I discovered the hard way that not all rubber gloves will keep one from getting burned while handling jalapenos, but that wearing latex gloves under the rubber gloves would solve the problem.  It did not occur to me that if I put the rubber glov...

Don't get excited--I haven't finished 80 projects yet (nor is the icky bug invasion completely contained.which has nothing to do with 80 at all, but would make me super freakin' happy all the same, so I thought it worth mentioning)  However, as of tonight I have used up 81.6 yards of fabric for the year which is a new personal best.  AND I even like what I made AND I had planned to being showing it to you right now, but Google informs me I've used up all my free blogger photo space and must now purchase some storage....but it won't be available to me for about a day. So.............I'm off to work things out with Google, battle bugs, and do some frantic crafting so that when I can finally show you some pictures they will be of finished projects!

Since I haven't been whining about my crazy 100-projects-finished-in-2010 goal, you might be wondering what the heck I have been doing with myself this week.  Knitting?  No.  Sewing? No. Anything at all remotely enjoyable?  No.  This week I am: Toni, slayer of icky bugs Our pantry has been invaded by grain moths and their disgusting wormy children.  If they weren't so revolting, I'd admire their tenacity as they get EVERYWHERE.  They can't get through the lids of things I've canned, but they can crawl into the rings and build little wormy nests.  Luckily, most of the stuff I canned is in an area that gets too cold for bugs, they found hundreds of other places.  Even in the cardboard boxes where we keep some of the nicer serving stuff, which sort of makes me wonder whether our bugs are actually some sort of separatist grain moth cult that has chosen to eat cardboard and Styrofoam instead of grain.  So my last several days have been spe...

You might have noticed that there are two new projects on the side tally, and yet there are no subsequent pictures on the blog.  This is because I cleaned the sewing room this weekend, and as we all know, there is no faster way for me to lose things than to clean, and my camera is the latest casualty. So, what we DO have is: *  a moderately less-messy sewing room *  progress on the stretchy sock--I think I have 2 more rounds before starting the heel *  a new black peachskin tank-top sort-of shirt--basically exactly like the short paisley one but without the paisley part *  a missing camera *  two new embroidered towels, with Jeeves performing flawlessly *  90 days in which to complete 28 projects *  a subsequent realization that working on the Kauni cardigan rather than the sock might be...um......stupid, perhaps? *  an overwhelming desire to cast on something new--with cables *  two cats and a husband who strongly suspect I ...

Let's take a minute and refresh everyone's memories, shall we? Remember the ill-fated pajama top incident?  (For a refresher, see here , here , and here )  Remember how I had finally purchased some solid brown coordinating flannel to make a new top, and how I drew that bag for the Project of the Month for September? My trust sidekick and I decided we had better get cracking, so I cut out the back and the facing, then opened the material up to cut out the remaining pieces, only to discover...... I don't have enough material!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Can you believe it????  I think I got this material from Joanns (having not saved the info because I got as much material as the pattern said, so I assumed there was no reason and brown flannel is brown flannel), so I'm hoping to be able to match it and have a swatch stuffed in my purse for when I've calmed down enough to be reasonable and not come home with 14 bolts of the silly stuff.  Obviously, I w...

After a few days of rest, hot pads, hot tubbing, and serious humiliation, I have recovered from my recent fruit beating, and have finished one sock in the stretchy yarn which I think might actually work with this pattern.  I hope so--I have 4 more pairs of socks worth of this yarn.   Feeling thoroughly sorry for myself, I also started a new lace scarf which I like in theory, but will probably frog & restart because the pattern has a 1-stitch stockinette border on each side that I want to get rid of, and I think I'd like the scarf a bit thinner and with a little bit bigger bottom border.  I want it to be a little scarf to tie around my neck when I wear the new tan microsuede ensemble since the decorative stitching thing didn't work out, and I really can't wear tan without looking like some sort of faded banana.   Speaking of fruit, yesterday I was even able to successfully cut up 5 trays of apples to dehydrate without any apple arse-kicking, so later t...

You might have noticed there haven't been any posts recently.  Monday I decided it was time to use some of the apples we picked and make apple butter.  I think the last time I made it was about 7 years ago, so I had had sufficient time to forget the previous trauma. There are apple butter recipes that don't require you to core & peel the 6 pounds of apples--I know this now.  Unfortunately, I did NOT know this on Monday.  So I spent two hours standing at the sink peeling and coring apples.  I don't know if it's an age thing or the fact that I have never really used a paring knife for 2 hours nonstop, by the end of the day my hand was a claw.  I thought it would be a good idea to do some stretching, which strained my wrist.  Whether or not it was the stress of the claw, the wrist or the 6 hours of standing in the kitchen....but I then threw my back out.  Fingers aching, wrist throbbing, and now having to lay flat on my back...there has been NO...