A Little Yarn On The Side

After cherry-picking yesterday, I finally had a chance to give Jeeves a test run, and decided it would be fitting to try to finish the summer towels that I had started a year ago  when I found out that Holland's Sew Shoppe had sent Jeeves home with more problems than he went in with.  I stabilized, hooped, and everything was going along swimmingly until I apologize for the blurry pictures, but until I actually take the time to A) find my camera manual and B) figure out how to focus said camera, I take a lot of blurry zoomed pictures.  It's a much smaller jump, but it's still a jump.  Now, I have a LOT of faith in Larry at the Twin Falls Sewing Center, and Jeeves had certainly improved, so I took several pictures, explained the problem, and emailed them to Larry so he could look at it when he came in today.  I turned Jeeves off and set everything aside, because I wanted to confirm with Larry what he might need to see if I had to take Jeeves back to Twin Falls. ...

 .....is the guilt-free knitting time.  The blue Foreign Correspondent scarf is done, and I'm already a little over halfway on a scarf for another niece: which means I've already used up FOUR balls of yarn in my Dead Heat stash-dash basket, which has me giddily thinking that I just might get through all of this: before the end of August.  Boy, good thing I decided to be more realistic about my goals, isn't it?????

Jeeves is home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  But, after 4 hours of driving it's actually too late to set him up for a test run, and tomorrow morning EARLY we're going to pick cherries with a friend, so stand by for test-embroidering Sunday night!

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...