A Little Yarn On The Side

My little sidekick seems to have gotten back to his usual self, including one of his favorite games, which we refer to as "trip the human."  He's still on a de-stress medication and the glucosamine blend for bladder health, but the longer he can go without a relapse, the more likely it is that it won't reoccur.  So I keep a close eye on him, but it's harder than one thinks to de-stress a cat. Monday I had warned him that this   was a bad place for a nap.  But you know pets--you can talk until you're blue in the face and they just won't listen.  So Tuesday, he fell off.  He did actually land on his feet, which I thought was just an old wives' tale, but I wasn't sure if it was stressful for him or not.  If I fell 3-feet out of bed while asleep, I don't think MY stress level would be great, so we had an extra petting session.  All seemed fine and then.. Wednesday, he got locked in the garage.   Not realizing how much we would re...

This might be surprising, but I have actually been following my doctor's instructions to not do anything that hurts my back.  However, my back made no such promises.  Driving down to the physiatrist's office on Monday, it started to hurt, and by Monday night had wound up my muscles enough again to set me back about a week when I went in for therapy on Tuesday.  While the soft tissue work is quite painful, it really seems to be helping, but after pretty much two years of pain, I've made quite a knot in my muscles, and it's going to take a while to unwind it.  Especially if it's going to hurt for random things.  I am keeping the Valium close, just in case.  It can ache a bit from being tired (which it does), but as soon as the muscles start to clench up from the pain, I'm in trouble.  So, there's been lots of heating pad time, as well as,  lots of canning because it's August.  Canning gives one some "waiting while....." time, but not any lo...

I would be showing you the new scarf with a little spot of steam blocking, except My little sidekick has commandeered (and furred) the ironing board.  I thought I might get it back earlier today, as he almost rolled off, but he caught himself in time.  He seems to be doing better with the stress issues, but falling off the ironing board probably wouldn't have helped.  So, it isn't blocked.  I almost tried for one final pattern repeat, but I'm glad I didn't.  There isn't enough yarn there for a whole pattern, which makes me rather pleased with my guessing. I am back to working on the sweater now, which will be the most time-intensive WIP I have, I think.  I thought if I finished THIS one first, everything else would be fast comparatively, but monogamous knitting has never been my strongest point.  Maybe if I get some progress done on this, I can swoop in and finish off something else when I get tired of this, and then when I come back to thi...

There is a finished Ostrich Plume Scarf with beads! I have now knit up more than 5000 yards of yarn from my stash! I have finished TWO whole WIPs and only have 13 more to go............ Dang, that started out better than it ended.................

I probably need a different term for Fridays that don't really involve anything being finished, although I did finally make a lace ornament to feel like I've done something today.  The never-ending scarf with the magic ball of yarn continue to defy progress, so we are ignoring each other today.  Instead, I've been designing some Halloween trick or treat bags that are mostly overdue for birthday gifts and which could be redeemed if I get them done before Halloween.  I also did a bit of work on some new ornaments, which are ready for beads.  Unfortunately, I'm a little tired of beads right now.  So, I am losing my lead in ornaments, being beaten up by one of the smaller WIPs in my bag, and I've done as much sitting at the computer as I can take right now, so I am about to do the unthinkable:  I am going to go do laundry willingly.  I know--it's a sad, sad day here at Chateau Sutton-Goar..............

Okay--I really, really, REALLY hoped I would be showing you finished WIP number two tonight, but I have reached the magic point in the beaded scarf:  no matter how much I knit, it doesn't get any longer or the skein get any smaller.  So, while I have achieved a rather interesting achievement in physics, I have nothing to show you................. Do you think one can win a Nobel Prize in yarn????????????

.....but to add just a bit of variety, and to potentially finish something in the near future, I have been working on the beaded Ostrich Plume scarf: One good thing about having a lot of WIPs is one does have a lot of variety on a WIP marathon.  My new physical therapist seems to be really helping, but she's doing some soft tissue work on me, and it's a bit tender to sit, so I have been finishing sugar cookie ornaments.  Now that my craft table has been raised, it's the perfect height for someone with a tender derriere.  Now there's a description one doesn't see in furniture catalogs very often........ Still,  it has allowed me to get a few more ornaments ahead today.  I may be cookied-out for a while, but this last one makes ornament 236 and today is the 221st day of the year, so IF I were foolish enough to say such things within the hearing of the Crafting Gods, I would be bragging about being 15 ornaments ahead.  However, long experienc...