A Little Yarn On The Side

The new Christmas stockings are DONE! And there is a finished towel that needs to be removed from Jeeves, and if I can get a second one done before having to call it a night, I could have project 100 done today as well! 111 projects might not be so insane after all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 They're done!!!!!! And fortunately the picture doesn't show that all the white of the "Allan" stocking except the very last 2 rows are a tiny bit more of an off-white than the other stocking or stripe that one can see in natural light on the bottom of the stocking.  DANG!  If I had the remotest idea what the yarn dye lot was or if this weren't a discontinued yarn I would have fixed the bottom rows, but as it stands, I would have to knit the entire stocking over which I'm not sure I have enough yarn for.......so I'm just going to hope that my friends are very forgiving or can't distinguish shades of white.  Rats. And the first Project of the Month washcloth is done: and since I'm counting 2 as a finished project, I'm halfway to having project 98 done.  Then I think I need to think about a few hats or caps to pad out my project numbers.  54 days isn't very many...................

Today has only been half a Finishing Friday, as my morning was taken up with canning (again!), but I have managed to finish one ornament that I'm happy with  finished the one I'm not overly thrilled with, but which can hang on the back of the tree,  and made one that counts as a whole Finished Object by itself because it was such a blasted pain in the neck: It's less in a state of "finished" than "in the Ornament Protection Program for its own safety."  I think I will be spending the evening with something less irritating.......which could be anything really..

So, today on Ravelry there was a discussion in the Stashdown group about what challenges we're going to have next year, and one of our REALLY optimistic members suggested finishing 12 12s in 2012.  I should not encounter such wild ideas while having morning coffee, because after having convinced myself that 12 sweaters would be totally doable, it isn't too much of a stretch for me to make it exponentially harder.  Just in theory (sort of), what if I did: 1.  12 sweaters 2.  12 Christmas ornaments 3.  12 embroidered towels 4.  12 hats 5.  12 place mats 6.  12 gift bags 7.  12 pen sleeves 8.  12 washcloths 9.  12 sewing WIPS 10. 12 chair covers/decorations 11. 12 coasters 12. One more category....sewing would be a good idea, or maybe 12 scarves, some of which could be sewing? Too crazy?  By which I of course mean, too crazy for ME even?

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?????...