A Little Yarn On The Side

I'll change later for my interview, but it's cool enough this morning for my new socks! I'm thinking they're a bit bright for a job interview, but you never know.  Maybe they'd make a good ice-breaker?

I LOVE not working on Saturdays--have I mentioned that yet?  And I have an interview on Monday, so on the list of Things I Want to Get Done Before Returning To Work, I spent the first half of it cleaning out my closet.  It's not exactly "clean," but my summer clothes are put away, my winter clothes are out, and there's a pretty big pile for the donation bin.  And, I gathered up several bunch of plastic hangers that hadn't yet gotten hot glue dots, and I am happy to report that I have used that blasted glue gun AGAIN without burning myself.  Positively cocky, I tried my luck with wine cork Christmas trees.  Okay--I did burn myself at this point, but I got two of the things glued up.  That's something.   Also on that list is this: which is a great fabric that I thought would make fun birthday decorations, starting with figuring out a way to make a fabric pennant banner.  I used a stiff craft interfacing between the layers then st...

I'm sort of back on track with Me Made Mondays with this I actually wear this quite frequently, which is good.  It's good to make things that become favorites, though that still leaves me needing 6 more "unworn" things before the end of the year...

So, I started out with good intentions.  I was going through my scrap bin cutting fabric into usable shapes/strips.  But, after cutting up some red fabric, I picked up the black and white fabric from my dress earlier this year, and.... suddenly I was hooked.  And I mean hooked.   I usually don't finish a fabric & rope bowl in a single day, but I love this bowl!  It matches nothing, it should be a gift, I have no use for a bowl, I have bowls...and I want to keep this one.  I don't even know what I would do with it, but I'm so pleased with it!!!!!!!!!!  Well, SOMEONE obviously needs to work on their sharing............

In spite of yesterday hitting a sweltering 92 degrees, fall is in the air and eventually the weather will catch on, so it's knitting season and I suddenly have a mad desire to Seriously, I have the biggest case of starteritis I've had in a long time.  How does this happen?  I spent an hour--an HOUR--of prime crafting time last night searching Ravelry for patterns.  Do I not have a queue?  Of course I do.  But Me Made Monday has almost ruined knitting for me.  Now, not only do I have to want to knit the item, I need to want to wear it.  When did THAT happen?  I have thousands of yards of yarn stashed, and NOW I'm going to start being sensible?  That's going to RUIN crafting for me!

Having FINALLY finished the socks I've been working on, and the two floral jackets, I've made my goal of 50 finished projects for the year!  Of course, I'm still quite a way from reaching any other goal--like 100-yards of fabric for the year--and Me Made Mondays took a bit of a hit recently, but I am back on track with this for yesterday.  It's a crafting jacket I made years ago, and aside from the pockets being so far down the jacket that I can't reach all the way into them, this has been a pretty successful project.  I wear it a lot, which doesn't always happen with projects. The big news is.....I quit my job and last Tuesday was my last day.  Ideally, I would have lined up another one before resigning, but my hours were so long, and with the frequency of the last-minute meetings scheduled in my personal time in the mornings, I wasn't able to do interviews.  This was the first weekend I'd had off in months, and since it happened to be our TE...

So, you might have noticed that I disappeared entirely for a while.  Something I didn't know about the new job was what is nicely called "band season," which in reality meant really long, exhausting hours (and without extra pay because I'm salaried, not hourly), so not only has there been little crafting, there's been little of anything except work and sleep.  The extended hours ended Friday, so I've had enough breathing room to at least turn on my computer.  And to remember that it's Me Made Monday, and it's cool enough for this today: To be fair, this fabric is so lightweight that this probably has no warmth at all, but I do love how it looks.  And how is everyone else doing?