A Little Yarn On The Side

I have a big, heavy cardboard tube and I am throwing it away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I did sew today..... No, I'm not ready to talk about it..............

Okay--even I have admitted that I won't finish the month at 50 finished projects.  I'm an optimist....and a pretty deluded one most of the time....but I need 7 projects in 5 days when we have plans for most of those days does seem a stretch--even to me.  However, the second beaded scarf might have been preempted by the Saroyan scarf, which is on size 10 needles and is currently half finished and has at least some chance of being finished object 44 before the end of the month.  I'd still be behind, but not quite as far.  These things matter,  at least to some of us............

ONE OF THEM IS DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Which is great, because the next kit just arrived today.  Oops.  I have to say, I still miss having yarn arrive at my door, but having sequins and beads arriving monthly is a great consolation prize. I think I put the wrong hanger on the cross, but since I know that I put the sequins on upside-down, I am not going to change it.  There was a little package of hangers, so I grabbed one, wrestled the knot of the cord into it, managed to stick it on the ornament without knocking off any of the beads, then noticed the instructions said to use the 14 mm hanger versus the 16 mm hanger.  REALLY?  I just got my first bifocals and can't even see the stairs clearly, much less a 2 millimeter difference in something.  They must be kidding.......

Or will be if the printer ever spits out the shipping label.  I honestly wonder sometimes if technology has truly sped things up or just added new things to go wrong.  At any rate, the wedding gift for our niece getting married is finished, wrapped, and packed!  Andy made the napkin rings, which he made with thin sheets of aluminum between the layers of wood to get a thin silver band.  We saw this technique used at the Woodturner's Association show earlier this year, and while it took a few attempts to get it right, I love how they turned out. The table runner was a last-minute idea.  Originally, I had intended to do this which was in the current issue of Sew News ,  which is a nice magazine and worth checking out if, like me, you maybe aren't up to the level of Threads yet.  I even picked up the ribbon for it, but ran into a little difficulty over the directions.  They use water-soluble stabilizer with paper backing, which I d...

Heavens! It's been a week.  How did that happen?  In no particular order, a little catching up: *  The beaded scarf is done!!!  It isn't blocked yet, so it looks like a big noodle-y mess with beads right now, but yesterday I dug out my bead stash to find beads for the second one, and have narrowed it down to three choices.  The yarn is more maroon than it looks here, and the pink would blend the most, the clear are a safe choice, but the ones in the center are where I'm leaning right now.  To put it in the most unclear way possible, I'm looking for "contrast, but not too much contrast."  Thank heavens I'm not having to torture a sales clerk with this decision. *  Needing a break from beads, yesterday I cast on Saroyan , which is a scarf in worsted weight on size 10 needles.  I'm using a ball of cotton yarn I'd purchased years ago to make dishcloths with, but all of my knitted dishcloths have been absolutely shredded since I got mar...