A Little Yarn On The Side

So, not only  does the new dealer think Holland's stabilizer-continually-slipping-at-the-exact-same-moment is totally stupid, they sell Bernina AND Husqvarna, and are right next door to a huge kitchen store. If you don't hear from me again, I am camping on their doorstep.

Today I'm driving 284 miles round-trip to take Jeeves in to be fixed by a dealer that isn't an ass.  At least it's a nice day for it. Things have finally progressed since I complained to the BBB.  While Holland's Sew Shoppe continues to refuse to acknowledge that a single thing might be wrong with my machine and has now expanded their accusations of my incompetence to include my ability to work the software and hoop anything at all AND that I lied about them not ordering parts in a timely manner (3 months for a damn bobbin cover?), they refunded the $60 "repair" fee that I paid them in February to do absolutely nothing, and Husqvarna has finally stepped in (after 6 emails from me) and will be honoring the warranty because all of this started while it was under warranty, and will work with the new dealer to either find the problem or send it in to the service center. So, it's good and bad.  While I am happy that at least I didn't have to pay for thi...

The only thing worse than having a math problem that you can't find on a sweater is FINDING the math problem on the sweater..........

So, it turns out I wasn't just being a lazy slob who didn't keep the sewing room clean.  Subconsciously I must have understood that there is a point where the sewing room is so clean that I don't want to sew because I might make a mess.   Well, there will be no more of THAT sort of behavior in my future!

The sewing room is actually clean.   Like really clean--you can actually see the tables because things are put away and everything.  Combining spring cleaning with friends coming to visit was more motivating than I had dared hope.  Of course, all that cleaning did interfere with crafting time, but there has been some crafting since the last post.  There was some quilting until I had "help,"  and I have finished another Crest of the Waves scarf, which is the last of the mohair blend in my stash-dash basket.  Andy's sweater is still waiting for me to redo the collar, and I now have a 30-inch zipper, which is the largest size I can get without getting creative, so I hope it works.  There's a new chemo cap in progress, with what I think is one of the last 4 skeins of the chemo cap yarn.  I made a change in the stash-dash basket, replacing the two skeins of pink baby cashmere left over from Fleur with two similar skeins left over from a baby swe...

Our regular knitting blog broadcast has been interrupted by housecleaning.  This mad obsession by the blog owner will certainly pass quickly and probably won't recur for at least a year or more.  Please stand by for our host to regain her sanity.

So, I thought I would run a few errands around town, then drive Jeeves down to the repair guy 142 miles away.  I had even stopped to pick up an audio book to listen to during the 3+ hour round trip drive, and had even driven about 30 miles when I decided to stop for coffee.  About this time, the starter on my car also decided to stop, but not so much for coffee.  Luckily, this was at a truck stop, and after two attempts to jump start the car which ruled out a dead battery, two very nice men were able to give me enough of a push so I could start the car that way (thank heavens my car is a manual transmission, or my car and I would still  be at the truck stop, but I would have probably have moved on from coffee to hard liquor or whatever one can get at truck stops).  Knowing that I would never get my car restarted unless I made a point of always parking on steep hills (which Twin Falls is spectacularly devoid of), I called my mechanic and said I was on my way back...