A Little Yarn On The Side

Finished socks: for 330 yards, and finished but unstuffed Mr. Flurry: who will get his eyes when he gets his stuffing, and maybe some scarf fringe--haven't decided on that part--for another 393 yards according to someone else's yardage estimates, but which seems about right, so......... I have just crossed the 20,000 yard mark for the year!!!!!!!!!! If only that were a sizable dent in my stash.............

As I prepare for my sixth year of Cold Sheeping, I am just tickled to death at how widespread the term "cold sheeping" is in the knitting world now.  I didn't start the Cold Sheeping thread in the Ravelry Stashdown group until I was starting my second year of cold sheeping, so the thread will be in it's 5th year, and the Stashdown group is one of the 10 most active threads on Ravelry with more than 4300 members, and the Cold Sheeping thread is always either THE most active or second most active thread each year.  It's become so popular, in fact, that one of our members spun off and started a Cold Sheeping group on Ravelry and now it's made it to Facebook.  I love the online knitting community, and to have contributed anything, even something so simple as a term, is just thrilling.  It's like I've been able to give something back to a world that has been so welcoming and menat so much to me.  I've made so many friends through knitting blogs and Ra...

Have you ever had to explain to anyone--perhaps the person you live with--that the really loud "YES!!!!!" resounding through the house was because you proved you are not a robot on the very first try?

We have a finished scarf!!!!!!!!!!! It's not blocked, but it's done and I now need only 640 yards in the next 15 days!  Thank heavens for this: The second Magic Stripe sock is past the heel and I'm working the gusset.  I'll still need another 300 yards when I finish the socks, but I'll be closer!!!!  And then when THOSE 300 yards are done......... I can obsess about something else! Like maybe...... I have NO idea what the ornaments are going to look like, but I had so much fun with the thread/stippling adventure that I had to try it again today.  This time I used more blue hues: which I thought turned out well--or was at least fun.  So much fun, in fact, that: I had to do another.  This is my favorite version so far.  I can't wait until I'm totally off the pain pills so I can clarify whether or not this really looks good or if there are more side effects than I thought.  Maybe it's just distracting right now because I'm really cl...

there has been crafting.  The brioche scarf is almost done: as is a 440-yard ball of lace weight yarn in one of my favorite color ways of all time.  The second sock is at the heel turning, and I'm beginning to think I'm going to make it to 20,000 yards of yarn for the year after all.  WHOO HOO!!!! I've been resting and exercising mostly, but today I did venture into the sewing room for a bit.  As a break from movies, books, and audio books, I've been watching "Sewing With Nancy" videos online.  It's been nice, as I've gotten new ideas for sewing and ornaments for next year, though the unfortunate side effect is a "wish list" at Nancy's Notions of over $100.  I suppose if one is going to make a living having a show on PBS, one probably has to have a sideline income and one that you can integrate with your show is really clever, but thank heavens for the buying ban! I decided to experiment with a technique she called a "pizza...

*  One finished sock! (which looks a bit odd, but does actually fit) *  Sport weight sock yarn! *  No Valium needed since last night! *  The invention of Valium (since it really was needed last night) *  Having NOT done anything stupid which would set my recovery back *  Being on a spending ban while laid up and bored with access to the internet *  That we never feed our cats tuna or anything else that results in a sidekick with bad breath. *  Theo leaving his "get well" gifts on the floor rather than bringing them onto the bed *  All the get-well gifts from Theo thus far have been dead *  Having a hobby like knitting that I can do to entice myself to rest my back muscles--probably preventing me from going completely and utterly bonkers.

I spend most my days knitting right now.  This would be a more enjoyable state of affairs if it wasn't because my back is fried, but as weird as it sounds (considering I've spent most of the day laying flat), I think I'm finally on the mend. What I have is called "sacroiliac joint dysfunction."  I'd provide a link to something helpful if I could, but while it is the first thing I've ever looked up on Web MD that didn't say death was likely or even eminent, I don't recognize anything they describe.  In layman's terms (and thank heavens I was referred to a specialist who speaks Layman fluently), this is the most common cause of back pain for women.  If you look at your pelvic bones (which is sort of impossible, I realize, so maybe visualizing the bones would be better) there's not really anything to hold them in place except muscle.  Because women often have children, our pelvic bones are designed to be more prone to movement.  It makes s...