A Little Yarn On The Side

According to this article from Threads magazine: Color Coordination - Threads I predicted the "Color of the Year." Apparently what I have often referred to as "Pepto-Bismal pink" may in reality be "Honeysuckle" and THE color for fall. Um, yeah. I knew that.....

So some months doing the stash tally is quite exciting. This, however, isn't one of them. For May, I have the following sad, little, pathetic report: Projects finished: 3 Yards of fabric used: none Yards of yarn used: 1543 skeins of yarn used: 6 May was only 2 weeks long this year, right?

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes, though I guess I should have explained that I actually turned 40 in September, and Andy's sister and her family had lined up the birthday adventure for when we joined them in Colorado for our niece's graduation.  We were there 5 action-packed days, and I think I just caught up on my sleep last night.  :) It technically wasn't my first white water rafting trip, but it was certainly my first one involving Class III or Class IV rapids.  I believe the technical classifications involve something about water per square foot or speed, but for we laymen, I'd say Class III is when you start thinking you could die, Class IV is when you think you really might die, and Class V is when you start converting.  We were with a brilliant guide who didn't tell us until we were through it that one of the first rapids we went through was a Class IV, so that made it much easier to do the rest of the trip.  I'll admit, I was quite nervous ab...

I can knit while doing a lot of things, but this isn't one of them.   This, however, was my 40th birthday present from Andy's sister and her family, hereby dubbed our Adventure Family.  How entirely cool is that??

*  Theo took a break from digging up the vegetable garden long enough to eat my knitting *  The planets were aligned in such a way that the magnetic pull on my metal needles was just too strong *  I found that cleaning the house was actually more fun than knitting. *  I've been struggling with the philosophical question, "Why spend all this time and money making a sweater, when everyone assures me they saw the exact same sweater  at Walmart for $20 OR.............. There actually has been knitting, but Blogger continues to have issues every time I try to update, so you'll just have to take my word for it for a while.

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...