A Little Yarn On The Side

Bob:  We're here at Chateau Sutton-Goar to bring you continuing coverage of the final push of the 2010 100-Project Challenge.  With 47 days and 13 projects left to go, it may be down to the wire here. Ron :  That's right, Bob.  As things stand, Ms. Sutton needs to average a finished object every three and a half days to get there. Bob:   And what would you say her chances are at this point? Ron:   I'd say better than 50-50 if she sticks to the hat regime.  It goes without saying that lace or cables would be a tragic mistake at this stage in the game. Bob:   Now wasn't there some expectation of Ms. Sutton finally tackling some advanced WIPs--such as Fleur--to make her goal? Ron:   There certainly was, Bob, and I can tell you that I've been surprised at Ms. Sutton's obstinacy in ignoring almost-finished-projects in pursuit of new ones.  A smarter game plan would have been to skip the two quilts and go straight to the Project Ti...

The GOOD news is, the hat with the 'manly" leaves is finished.  The bad news is notice anything about the top of the hat?  Like the color not matching the rest of the hat?  Yeah, I noticed that too.  The yarn is Knitpicks Wool of the Andes, and since both skeins would have been ordered at the exact same time, I guess I assumed that they were the same dye lot.  Obviously not.  Oh don't get me wrong--this is November 12 and I'm counting it as a Finished Project no matter what--the truly desperate having no shame at all--but I will either be keeping the silly thing or finding a not-too-observant person who would like to give it a home no matter what it looks like.  The winter pillow covers took a bit of a detour.  I decided they would look better with beads which is, of course, a great way to REALLY slow down progress on them.  So is this: Thank heavens he picked the washable project to shed on.  I spent the day working on cornucopias...

 I'm guessing you might have noticed that the "days left" number is moving a lot more consistently than "projects left" is.  I keep hovering right around that need-a-project-every-three-days-to-make-it mark, but I'm not really getting projects done every 3 days.  The manly-leafy hat is getting close: but if I were a bright person I would have remembered that colorwork really slows me down because A) there's a chart involved, B) I am too lazy to put the yarn on bobbins to spend large amounts of time undoing big multi-colored yarn snarls, and C) I don't care much for colorwork, so I won't work on it with much dedication.  Thankfully, I have about 4 rows left then it's a stockinette free-for-all to the top. Of course, since the chart makes it a not-portable project, I have started a new tweed hat and will hopefully have the sense to only use one other color for the tweedy part, which should still make it an easy project as only one color is...

It occurred to me today that there probably are people who do hobbies just for the fun of it and don't make up bizarre challenges in order to drive themselves completely crazy. Hm.  To each their own..............

Finished project number 82: which is a fall table-runner type thing to go underneath some stuff, so the fact that some of my embroidered leaves stand out a bit too much really won't matter. Finished project number 83: the absolutely adorable purple tweed hat. The new hat project:  which is at the "manly leaves" part and keeps loading sideways for unknown reasons, and finally, after lots and lots and LOTS of time over the last 2 days (like almost all of it), we have finished project number 84: The Christmas quilt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Done AND done early enough to be mailed off in plenty of time for Christmas.  I sincerely hope the shock wasn't too much for anyone, though I could certainly understand if it was.

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.