A Little Yarn On The Side

In an ordinary week, I would have perhaps finished some knitting.........or done some knitting.  But as anyone who has been seeing Idaho in the national news lately will probably know, this is not an ordinary week.  I've been posting the details on my other blog so I won't do so here, but I mention it here as the only excuse I have for having only made it to here on the spring tank top.  One tiny front piece and then just the neck and arm holes and it's done.  So like 5 stitches more than last time.  Sheesh--if I were knitting any slower I'd be tinking. The good news is that Andy has not been such a slug, so I helped him glue the first shelves together: They're made from oak and oak plywood, and will be stained a reddish-brown--sort of to look like cherry office furniture.  We've been trying out different colors of stain and wood combinations and found redder hues look best against the green paint.  We talked about using nicer wood, but with th...

Just when I'm down to knitting the last part of the tank---just ready to divide for the front--that what I really want to do is cast on a new project?

Really, I swear  I almost have a finished sweater.  Honest.  The back of the tank top is done, the front is on the needles.........and I am posting late at night because I thought I might have a finished sweater to show you if I just kept knitting........ Dang that pesky need for sleep...

Andy had another idea for storage for the sewing room, so he added a thin piece of plywood to the underside of the new sewing desk and now it's the perfect place to store long skinny things--yardstick, blocking wires, that long flat pressing thing, and also seems to provide a LOT of kitty entertainment on rainy days: Because my back was hurting a bit more (gym, lifting boxes, sitting--image that),  I spent most of Finishing Friday working on the new sweater, which has now divided for the armholes and I'm working on just the back.  I also finished picking up the button band for the blue sweater, but I want to edit that pattern to add buttons and button holes, which I thought would be best to do while NOT back on pain pills.   No progress on the green dress yet, but I have actually located a sewing project I can do as soon as the dress is finished. Same jean-type jacket pattern I keep making, but this one in purple corduroy, so one that would be great for...

It took almost all day, but I finally was able to convince myself that there were 3 entire tubs that I probably wouldn't be getting to in the next 12 months, so the stereo has a place to sit.  Call it the "music for the delusional" project, as it really was hard to admit that there is ANY yarn in my possession that I won't knit this year.  If you'll notice, I couldn't even commit to 3 yarn tubs.  There are 3--I think there are actually 6 or 7--but I struggled with not just saying there is yarn I won't get to for a while, I also have the tubs sorted by weight and didn't want to combine them, but I also don't want to have tubs around that are only partially full. Maybe the less-full ones can be moved to the shelves when they are done?  Or maybe at least I can pretend for a little while longer that the stash is really going to be tamed by those shelves................ Robin and Gaidig had some great ideas for the stash bin, so I've starte...

*  When trying to sort out the yarn I will  be knitting in the next 12 months and the yarn I won't  get to in the next year, I have discovered that some part of me really still believes I can knit a 10-year supply of yarn in the next 12 months. *  If one has big rubber tubs full of yarn, until one has actually emptied out every single tub of yarn  and double-checked it, one should not boast that one finally  has one's entire stash on Ravelry....unless one wants to be blindsided by 15 unaccounted for skeins lurking in the depths of the stash. *  Getting the sewing machines and computer all set up on the new sewing table would be even MORE exciting if I knew where my patterns, pin cushions, extra needles, marking pencils, and hem gauges were and could actually start sewing . *  If one can't find a knitting group that one likes, a clever knitter offers to teach all her friends to knit.

For now, the stereo-sitting-on-a-stack-of-yarn-filled-Rubbermade-tubs scheme is probably going to need to be continued in the sewing room, which means 1.  I can move a few things back into the sewing room and out of the bedroom 2.  This would be an excellent time to decide what I want to knit in the next 12 months so I don't discover that the next project is going to require moving a whole bunch of stuff. So, what if  I had two tubs to hold what I planned to knit in the next 12 months.  Could I stick to it?  And could I actually empty two entire tubs in one year?  Could my rise-to-the-challenge-no-matter-how-insane tendencies override the I-don't-want-to-knit-it-if-it's-planned-ahead stubbornness?  Or am I just saying this so I can play with yarn all day and really feel like I'm "cleaning?"