A Little Yarn On The Side

New lesson for the day:  If a medication says "Do not operate machinery while taking," one probably can't operate a sewing machine either.  In fact, knitting needles might totally stump one if the drugs are strong enough.........

Andy wasn't all that wild about Gaidig's suggestion that Andy be my cabana boy while I recuperate, though I was all for it.  He did make homemade pizza tonight and mix a large white chocolate martini for me, so the life of the stupidly-injured isn't all bad. Not to mention.......the final cornucopia is done, allowing me to chalk up another 5 yards of fabric to the tally (note to self: home decorating yards of fabric are depressingly large compared to yards of 45"-wide cotton), and the black chemo cap is done!  There will be a picture of the chemo cap tomorrow as there is something in the combination of me/digital camera/linux operating system/laptop/blogger that generally results in "orientationally-challenged" pictures appearing on the blog.  And that's even when I DON'T have a martini.  If I tried it tonight, I'd probably sprain my wrist or something..............

So, the GOOD news is that there will probably be a lot  of knitting going on tomorrow.  The bad news is, that's because I broke my stupid toe last night and we are hosting a Christmas party tonight, so I have been on my feet waaaaaay more than I should today.  Theo thinks I'm trying to recreate the fun of having a cat with a broken leg for Christmas two years ago.

Remember how I said my cousin wanted a black chemo cap as well?  I didn't have any of the yarn in black, so I needed to order more from Elann.  And, I thought, since I was already going to be placing an order, I could do my reward-for-another-year-of-cold-sheeping purchase a bit early.  I had decided that I would allow myself to spend $100 on yarn as a reward.  What I wasn't prepared for was Cyber Monday.  $100 went a tad bit farther than I had expected. In addition to the new supply of yarn for chemo caps, they had some great fingering weight merino that will be perfect for an Alice Starmore pattern I've been wanting to make, and some really soft worsted-weight yarn that is probably destined for this sweater and a few scarves.  The good news is, I didn't buy more yarn than I've used up for the year so far, though I wasn't too far off.  However, there is another finished chemo cap (I had to be doing something while waiting for the 2 1/2 day...

To be honest, when I dreamed up the idea of doing 100 projects in one year, I had doubts about whether or not I would be able to pull it off, or whether I'd be doing a 72-hour knitting marathon during the last days of December to meet my goal, but I just cast off project 100.  And it's my favorite of the entire year: It's not a great picture, but on Monday I received an email from a cousin who is currently battling cancer.  I'd sent her a chemo cap about a year ago, and she asked if she could hire me to make her two more--one in chocolate brown and one in black--because the other one is currently about all she can wear right now.  As most of you probably know, when someone you like is going through something horrible like cancer, what you wish for most (besides their full and rapid recovery) is the ability to do something to help.  I told her I would be more than thrilled to make her more and that she is to consider them a Christmas gift, so I could think of no proj...

Bob:  In a surprise move yesterday, Ms. Sutton abandoned the expected cornucopia-finishing and instead surprised us with a flurry of scarves. Ron:  How right you are, Bob!  We were predicting all 11 cornucopias to be necessary for Ms. Sutton to hit 100 projects for 2010, but seemingly out of nowhere came project 98: a pair of scarves that no one predicted.  Bob:  This certainly is getting interesting.  These scarves were a complete experiment for Ms. Sutton.  She was attempting to use a combination of threads on a rolled edge  and I think it would be fair to call the results only moderately successful as the edge doesn't have that nice finish that Woolly Nylon would have given it, but as Woolly Nylon has become almost impossible to find in Boise, I think she was a bit too desperate to finish the scarves to wait until she could mail-order the missing thread.  Ron:  We are certainly seeing a slight relaxing of project standards ...

Ron:  Here we are at Chateau Sutton-Goar and with cornucopia number nine being finished today, the question now is what will give out first:  cornucopias, quick knitting projects, or Ms. Sutton's sanity. Bob:   It's looking like an even race at this point. Ron:  It does indeed, Bob, though Ms. Sutton did manage to complete the Ravelympics sweater even after completely parting with her sanity, so anything could happen now. .........