A Little Yarn On The Side

There are 59 days left in the year. The holiday season is coming. Canning season is still going. I need to finish 17 more projects by the end of the year.  Okay, now might be the time to start panicking........... 

And time for a new Project of the Month bag: Cotton washcloths!  That works out nicely, because it fits in with the Christmas basket stashdash AND the fact that there are 60 days left in the year and 17 projects to go, and I am starting to freak out just a bit.  So, the new washcloth is already cast on: and I'm thinking I can get two washcloths and a tribble out of this, so that would be 1 1/2 projects, leaving me with 15 and a half to go.  Still "yikes." The Christmas stockings are moving along, but I thought I was about to have a major issue on the second heel flap:  I ran out of red yarn.  I'm moving about more, but I still can't really sit, so I was contemplating how to send Andy around town looking for a yarn that I knew the make of but not the colorway, and decided to simplify things by looking on the internet....................only to find the darn stuff (Bernat Berella) has been discontinued.  Who discontinues acrylic afghan yarn?????...

Have you ever noticed that technology gets all sorts of features that you don't need, but never the one that you do need?  I can change the sound effects my camera makes when I turn it on, take a picture, turn it off, and probably all sorts of other things, but what it doesn't do and the one sound option that I would frankly care about is if it had a little "find me" feature like cordless phones, so when I set the stupid thing down somewhere I would have some help finding it later.  Really, wouldn't that be a helpful feature? At any rate, since I have the camera, the new finished BSJ: and lest there be any interruptions in the projects-in-progress-but-not-finished status here, immediately cast on a new scarf: and even some progress on the new socks for me:   So the recuperation is at least sort of productive, even if I am getting a bit stir crazy.   The hip is improving, but I keep tensing up and aggravating my back, which makes me tense up even MOR...

So, when faced with an overwhelming amount of canning to be done, one option open to an intrepid knitter is to do something so spectacularly stupid that she ends up with a massively bruised hip and strained back, so she has no CHOICE but to rest for a few days--mostly in a completely flat position.  As it turns out, this works pretty well, and the BSJ is now finished and sewn together, and the second Christmas stocking is now at the trees.  And when I figure out where I put my camera, there will be proof of all of this.........except the bruising.  This isn't that sort of blog.........

......but the garden was finally killed off by frost last night, so while there is a crazy amount of canning happening NOW, the end is finally in sight.  Whew!  Though one good thing about our new weather pattern is that I'm canning much, much later in the year now than even 3 years ago, and it's a lot cooler.  Today it was probably as pleasant as standing over a hot stove could ever be as the rest of the house was rather chilly much of the day.  Not that I'm crazy enough to keep this up all winter......

If you do not see me on this blog for the next weeks, you can be certain that the green tomatoes got me. Frost comes on Tuesday night........finally!

 One down, one to go!  My sidekick has agreed to hang out while I knit, but judging from the muffled growling and twitching, it seems to be giving him nightmares.  Guess I'm not the one who hates colorwork most in the house after all...............