A Little Yarn On The Side

I suppose it's possible to get a cold in the summer, but I think we can't rule out the shock of the Husqvarna saga finally being over.  I'm planning to drive down to get Jeeves tomorrow, so I hope I feel better then. In the mean time, I finished the blue scarf!  I have another Finished Project!   Only 58 more to go..... Rats, that doesn't sound nearly as exciting.............

It's been more than a year since the problems with my Husqvarna Platinum 950e surfaced, and after 10 months of working with the incompetent and rude Holland's Sew Shoppe, the lovely people at the Twin Falls Sewing Center finally have found the problem (the one that Holland's continually asserted didn't exist) and have fixed it.  I have asked the new dealer to report the exact details to the dealer manager from the VSM parent company.  Not that I think they actually are that concerned about how dealers treat customers, but I'd like them to have to go forward KNOWING how I was treated. In the meantime, I have been so discouraged with all of this that I haven't even considered the possibility that I'd have a working  embroidery machine again, so I can't even think what to embroider first.  Towels?

I have a new obsession, and it is called the Foreign Correspondent's Scarf .  Possibly my fascination is just because it's not pink , but I spent all of Finishing Friday with it.  It's other big draw might be that the yarn for it (besides being delightfully soft and blue), comes in 109-yard balls, which would normally irritate me to no end because it means lots of splicing, but I can only change that stash tally on the right when I use UP a skein, so I am willing to splice in order to be able to brag that I have already knit up 109 yards from my "Dead Heat" stash-dash basket.  and if I'm knit that much already, maybe I really could knit it all up in two months....................

Today is a significant day.  Want to know why? 1.  It is the start of the mid-point of the year, which shows us that I am behind  on my 111 projects goal, and probably impossibly behind on my 25,000 yards of yarn goal.  I might  have to start considering being--and I shudder to say this--"realistic." 2.  It starts the "Dead Heat" stashdash on Ravelry, which will run until August 31, and I have compiled an impressively crazy  optimistic basket of yarn to knit up in two months. 3.  In the crafting world, it is time to get serious  about Christmas crafting, which in my world usually means that it's time to decide I should make 5 quilts and 3 sweaters between now and Christmas.  Stand by for insanity updates. 4.  It is Finishing Friday, so I am crafting to my little heart's content.  Which is knitting today, because it's easier to knit outside than it is to sew.  It's only 83 today, so I am enjoying nice weather while I c...

About one hour ago, I finished the last seam on this baby..... and it's a bit big.  I think I'll eventually redo the collar seam at the "V" and I'll see what blocking does for it.  If that doesn't solve the problem, I'll be frogging and making something else with this yarn.  I've hung onto it for possibly 10 years now--I'm getting a sweater out of it, dang it! Of course, it might be fine once I fix the neck.  It was 95 degrees yesterday and today, and thanks to a mouse that Theo brought in and lost when it crawled into a crack underneath the bathroom cabinets where we can't get at it, we have eau de dead mouse permeating the upstairs of the house.  If we close the windows so we can turn on the air conditioning, the stink is unbelievable.  So, we have all the windows open and roast, we're hot but it doesn't stink.  I wouldn't have automatically guessed it, but it seems hot beats stinky hands down.  So, I had this sweater on for ...

And I'm onto the seams: which is really the worst part of the whole thing, and if I didn't have an absurd goal for the number of projects I can finish this year, there's a good chance this sweater would be remaining in this stage for an extended period of time.  Partially to reward myself and partially to preserve my sanity, I cast on a pair of socks last night: They're going to be relatively plain toe-up socks for Andy.  The yarn has been in my stash for at least 5 years, and I think could be accounted for in my I-just-learned-to-knit-socks buying frenzy.  It's not bad yarn (Schachenma  Nomotta Regia Strato), but I'm not wild enough about the colorway to explain why I had enough of it for 3 pairs of socks.  Thankfully, one pair was made some time ago, so I'll make a pair for Andy and one for me and can get to that "44 all used up" mark in Ravelry.   I am going to give myself credit for reaching my stashdash goal.  I went from this to th...

The pink sweater.  Still.  And I'll be working on it tomorrow as well.  The same pink sweater I worked on yesterday.  And the day before. NOW I know why I work on so many projects at once.  It's not really  my knitterly ADD.....it's really so I don't bore my blog readers to death. See, isn't that nice of me?