A Little Yarn On The Side

I have a new chair pad!  Neither Andy's desk chair nor my office chair are the greatest chairs.  Which makes sense, because unless you are really going to spend about $600-$700 on a desk chair, it's going to hurt your back or backside in a few years.  Not being independently wealthy, we of course do not own $1400's worth of chairs.  However, we ARE now the possessors of $25's worth of foam pads for our cheap chairs.  We went to a local foam place--believe it or not, there are such places--and got the foam that would be IN the $700 chairs.  My butt is in love!

I have finished the purple-tweed hat! I have taken pictures of the finished purple-tweed hat! I have misplaced my camera after taking pictures of the finished purple-tweed hat! I know.  Sometimes I even amaze myself.

Remember the bobbin cover that was missing from the new sewing machine?  I stopped into my local dealership to see if they had one--which of course they didn't--but they found a used one in the back that they sold to me for half price.  That was fine--except that it was the wrong one.  To be fair, Husqvarna discontinues & redesigns their machines so often that it would be very hard to keep track of everything, so I simply called them to ask if they could order the right one for me.  "Sure thing."  ONE MONTH LATER, I hadn't heard from them, so I called and spoke to the repair guy.  He didn't bother to look to see if it was in--just assured me it must be, or that he probably had one on-hand.  I know--at this point I should have reminded him that he was the one who sent me home with the wrong part in the first place, so he obviously "didn't just have one," but one thing I have learned about dealing with him is that he's so absolutely sure that h...

.....and I've decided NOT to pick a Project of the Month bag.  I have 19 projects left to finish and two months in which to finish them.  I think it's time for a little project selectivity, or in other words, HATS!!!!! Meet hat number 2:  which maybe wasn't the brightest hat to select since it takes THREE rounds of knitting to get each of those tweedy-looking rows, so this is not a true project for speed, but it is getting a lot of attention because I just love how it looks.  This is hat number 3, and also my new portable project.  It's going to be a stocking cap with a teal design of some sort--maybe leaves?  I am told by the resident expert on manly attire (aka Andy) that leaves are more manly than snowflakes.  Glad he feels that way, since he's out there raking some manly leaves right now......  :)

When things start to look desperate, it's time to go get an easy project, Ta-da!!!  The second set of fall towels has been trimmed.  Unfortunately, we only have 4 of these towels, so this is the end of my towel-decorating stash.  Still, it's project 80. And............ the hat is finished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Cast on October 25 and finished October 29!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  HATS COULD SAVE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 62 days left in the year, 19 projects to go, and I have a book entirely filled with hat patterns.  It could be down to the wire..................................

That's how much yarn is LEFT in my stash. HOLY COW!  Er, I mean holy sheep!

There are 66 days left in the year, and I still need 21 finished projects.  And, in those 66 days are slightly time-consuming things called "the holiday season," which really kicks off right before Thanksgiving and ends either after New Year's Day or whenever people collapse from exhaustion--whichever comes first.  And during this time, I need to average a finished object every 3 days. WHAT WAS I THINKING?????????????????????????????????  I think, at this point, it's time for a little visit to the land of REALITY.  Not a long enough visit to accept that setting insane goals for one's hobby is completely idiotic and give up or anything, but I think it's time for a strategy session.  66 days left, and there are a few facts that even I cannot ignore: 1.  It's time to raid the Project Time Out Bin.  Half-finished projects are my friends right now. 2.  It's time to finish Fleur, even if it does mean unraveling some of the beaded band because it'...