A Little Yarn On The Side

I have been cleaning.  (And this might be a good time to point out that there are brighter things to do after one has strained one's back, but in my defense, there are probably worse ones.)  There is still a great deal to be done, but I did at least get to the point of being able to take pictures of The Stash. First, the closet: which is getting closer to door-dom all the time.  Or, as I should say, is getting closer ever since I stopped buying fabric like a demented human pack-rat.  The yarn is a bit harder to see as so much of it is at the top, but those bags are almost all full of yarn: Not too bad, right?  Of course not--because that's not the entire stash!  On either side of the closet are: starting from the top, laceweight, fingering weight, and nice sport/dk weight.  Then a bin containing some fleece for jackets.  On the other side:  The grey contains dishcloth cotton odds & ends, then worsted weight, not-so-nice sport/dk wei...

Tonight I finished yet another  chemo cap, so I am ending April with a monthly tally of: Projects finished:  11 Yards of fabric used:  15.75  Yards of yarn used:  1772 Skeins of yarn used:  11 for year-to-date totals of:   Projects finished:  43 Yards of fabric used:  36.25 Yards of yarn used:  5839 Skeins of yarn used:  36.25 We're now one-third of the way through 2011, and if I keep up this pace, I would end the year with: Projects finished:  129 Yards of fabric used:  108.75 Yards of yarn used:  17,517 Skeins of yarn used:  108.75 Everything looks really good except the yards of yarn tally.  Ideally, I'd like to reach 25,000 yards, but I would still be pretty pleased with 20,000.  Of course, some  knitters would be pleased with ending up with a bunch of knitted stuff at the end of the year.......Go figure.

An entirely different project: I was "cleaning" the sewing room (I use the quotation marks so that you don't expect the sewing room to actually BE clean when I'm done--just less  messy) in order to have more room to work with the quilt, and I couldn't decide where to put this lavender fabric, and then it occurred to me that if I used  it, I didn't have to find a home for it.  So, I have a new spring pant set.  That works. I finished it up this morning, then was in a bit of a dither about what to work on in my last few bachelorette hours, and then there was that silly naggy voice that I've been ignoring all week that insisted  on doing some laundry and a bit of cleaning, so while I did some of the boring stuff, I set up Jeeves to do a couple towels: and the first half of a bag set I've been planning to make to put with our picnic supplies: Obviously, there will be a "clean" bag as well, though I'm not sure how much use it will get.  T...

Andy gets home late tomorrow night, so I have all of today and tomorrow to craft like a maniac.  Part of me--the one that caused all the stash issues and spends most of her time in "time out" for bad behavior--is so delighted with the floral jacket that I'm having to restrain myself from starting one out of a green home decorating fabric in my stash.  Oh sure, I  know that working with home decorating fabric was really hard and I may never want to do it again in my lifetime, but Problem-child Toni doesn't seem to know that.  To be fair, it really is a cute jacket, and the green would  make a fantastic jacket, but I think I need to pick something else for today.  Andy shouldn't have to come home to a wife who is in desperate need of sedation. So, I had decided earlier this year to try to make one thing for each season.  I decorate the house for seasons--spring, summer, fall, Christmas, and winter.  I started doing it when we first bought the hous...

Is it wrong that my own project makes me laugh every time I see it?

Today's lesson learned:  If you're unclear whether you need a 26-inch zipper or a 28-inch zipper, buy them BOTH and then return the one you don't use.  Unless you're trying to strike up a relationship at the returns counter for unknown reasons.

Riding on a high from finishing this  and this yesterday, I thought today would be a good day to start a new sewing project that I've been planning for at least a day or two.  But to do so, I needed to clear off some space on the sewing table, which meant finishing up some felt gift bags that were still in progress, or finding a place to stash them to get them out of the way, but where I would still be able to find them.  As we're all familiar with my track record on THAT score, it seemed wiser to finish them. Some younger friends of mine are having a baby, and they're sort of non-traditional.  Everything on their baby registry is black, so a cute little baby sweater seems a bit inappropriate.  Instead, I think I might be making the first baby "smack-talk" quilt in existence.  The first finished squares: If you can't quite read them, they say: No sleep for the big people My other stroller is a Porsche I'm with the band Dude, where's my binkie...