A Little Yarn On The Side

With all the cleaning I've been doing--and feeling like maybe I should rest a bit if I'm ever going to get rid of this cold--I took a REAL Finishing Friday today.  Originally, I was moving things around to maybe start a new project, but since one of the items I was moving was a table runner all pinned and ready to be quilted, the tiny rational side of me thought, "Hey, maybe I should finish a project before starting a new one..."  After wondering where THAT little voice has been all my life, I picked out another variegated thread to play with, and can I just say that I'm not sure if the stronger draw is that I think it will look nice OR that I want to justify having bought several variegated threads and because I'd like to justify eventually buying more of them.  It has been 27 days since my last fabric purchase, and I have come so close to caving at least 3 times already that I am currently bribing myself with a Sulky Blendables Dream Assortment if I ...

It took a few hours to feel like doing anything yesterday, but once the Sudafed kicked in, I cleaned like a maniac. After four years of dealing with a bad back/hip, lots of things had been neglected, so the house needed it.  However, I had to be a bit more sparing in my Sudafed use today, because it's just a bit much for me.  I was finally calm enough to use my wooden knitting needles without starting a fire Boy-Scout-style, so the body of Sitcom Chic is done!  The sleeves were joined raglan-style, so the only seams are the underarms, which is nice.  Next will be to pick up the front edgings, so it's really close to being done.....and it's about where it would get set aside for a faster, easier project if I didn't need 20 finished items to wear this year.  If you can't overcome your weaknesses, at least find a way to work around them.  I was even calm enough to finish this: which was surprising.  I used a simple thin zig-zag and my walking foot...

So the cold is still hanging on, and Dayquil was doing so little for me yesterday that I switched to Andy's Sudafed--just the 4-hour ones.  We're never going down that 12-hour path again.  I have to say, I felt great.  Not only did it really clear up my stuffy head, the crazy-energy spike REALLY came in handy.  Not only did I get the Christmas decorations all finally put away and the winter ones out, the living room is spotless .  Of course, I couldn't sit still long enough to sew, but I did some tidying in the back room, sorted a few cookbooks out for donations, and continued my war on cold germs and dust on the baseboards, crown molding, and anything else I could reach without destroying my back.  Of course, I didn't sleep very well last night, but dang!  I did get a lot done. Today the cold doesn't seem to be much better, but I'm hoping to be a little less spastic today.  It's a good thing I never got into recreational drugs--I have the ...

The shock of walking out of Joanns for less than $6 must have been too much for my system, because I now have a cold !  Seriously, two months dragging around with bronchitis, and I get a cold.  AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHH! I still did Me Made Monday yesterday while dragging myself to my annual "women's wellness" exam.  I thought about rescheduling, but why ruin a perfectly good day with THAT exam?  So, I wore one of my favorite sweaters--after I steamed the wrinkles out of it.  I made this in 2010 with an alpaca/tencel blend that I bought in BAGS from Elann.com, probably in 2006.  This is the third sweater I've made with this yarn, and I think I have enough still in my stash to make 5 more--luckily, not all in this color.  It is nice yarn, but WARM.  I made Andy a sweater from it, and he almost never wears it because it's so warm, so there are 5 more sweaters FOR ME with this yarn.  Ahem....... I came home and slept after my appointment, bu...

I managed to go to a fabric store for this: and didn't even look at the fabric!  I know!!!!!!  I did pick up a few Christmas closeout floral picks, but I still walked out of Joann Fabrics having spent less than $6!!!!  Originally, I had planned to buy NO crafting supplies at all this year, but thread to finish a project seems reasonable, and over the weekend we ran across these at a thrift store, for $3, so let's just say I'm not spending MUCH on crafting.  I can't say that I even know what to do with this one,  and there are 4 of these,  which I may never do anything with, but now that 1.) I've come to terms with the bifocals/reading glasses and can see well enough to paint details, and 2.) I'm not frantically trying to finish a huge bunch of gifts, I hope to break out the paints and tackle some ornaments soon.  I'm not good at it, but I enjoy it. Interestingly, even though I really only opted to wear handmade things on Mondays, the w...

  I haven't purchased yarn in 6 months!!!!!!!!!!!!  

So yesterday I woke up with serious chest congestion and a sore throat.  NO!!!!!!!!!! I didn't even want to contemplate another 2 months of bronchitis, so with the aid of Nyquil, I slept most of the day and am feeling much better today.  I almost used one of my pajama days, but I was cold so instead I opted for this fleece shirt and pant set I made a few years ago.  I have no idea what one would really call this--dressy sweats?--but they're really warm.  The pants have an inexplicable flair to the hem, so they're really as close to bell-bottom sweats as one can ever [hopefully] get, and I'm always just a tad self-conscious wearing them out in public, but they were great for napping.  I had some crafting time on Sunday, and there was a brief period when I actually thought the purple jacket might be finished for Monday, but if I had any true sense of how long things take, my sewing room would NOT look like a craft store threw up, so I didn't make it....