A Little Yarn On The Side

With less than a month left in the stash-dash challenge, the pink sweater now has a back, there's another shower cloth, and the last chemo cap is in progress,  leaving me with just this: left to use up. This weekend I hope to work on Andy's sweater and maybe even finish it, but I don't think it will take all of the remaining black yarn. I'm not sure exactly how to account for that as far as the stash-dash challenge, but maybe I'll see if Andy would be interested in a matching hat..... There has finally been actual sewing: and Theo is just beside himself with joy over the new projects to fur. The placemats and napkins are either 1/3 or 1/4 of a gift for some close friends coming over on Saturday.  They recently redecorated their dining room using primary colors, so I'm making 2 yellow, 2 red, and 2 blue placemat/napkin sets (and will throw in green if I have the time).  This is the first real sewing I've done since cleaning the sewing room, and ...

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.