A Little Yarn On The Side

Saroyan is done! It used up almost every bit of the Aunt Lydia's worsted weight denim I was using, which is where the cool cardboard tube came from.  It actually found a home protecting one of my pepper plants from my little helper so it turned out as sort of a win-win.  I did use it and it IS doing something helpful, but it isn't in my craft room.  Which is good, because basically everything else IS.... ...which is why I am joining in a 2-month basket dash on Ravelry, starting July 1.  I have made 45 things this year so far, but it doesn't really feel like I've used up much of my stash, so I thought I needed a little visual reminder.  I'm putting together a stack of things to use up in the next 2 months. I think sewing and I are back on speaking terms after this: I've had a yard of this adorable froggy fleece fabric for several years, and had just taken it out of a shelf to make room for this which is seven yards of some sort of suiting mater...

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...