A Little Yarn On The Side

I MADE IT!!!!!!! I haven't bought fabric in 366 days!!!  I finally did it! And I've been up for 2 hours already and haven't yet ordered any fabric-- which amazes even me. 

Happy Holidays from Château Sutton-Goar! 2016 marked our 10 th wedding anniversary, and we celebrated by buying new rings. While it was tempting to do the traditional tin/aluminum, we thought they might be more meaningful if they DIDN'T come out of a gumball machine (if they still have those). It also shamed me into sorting through more of the garage in case any of those remaining boxes were ALSO celebrating a 10 th anniversary, though I'm not sure what a box buys to celebrate. New packing tape? While “done” with physical therapy seems to be something I'm never going to really ever achieve, my hip/back does continue to improve, and we were able to go cross-country skiing this year, which was very exciting. Even bigger news—I was able to go back to work for most of the year. For about 7 months, I worked as the store manager at Dunkley Music's Nampa store, which was fun—except maybe for what is known as “rental season,” which is a three-wee...

Two days until Christmas and there are 14 emails from yarn or fabric merchants in my inbox. I think I'm a legend in my own lifetime........

Considering next week I'll probably convince myself that 2017 really WILL be the year I get that sewing room cleaned up and organized, a flying fat man in a sleigh isn't really that much of a stretch...........

Normal people do not care about such things, but I am now within 10.6 yards of hitting my goal with 10 days left in the year.  I could still make it! Of course, I could stop being such an idiot and say "close enough," possibly involving some sort of medication, but until I find it, the two black runners are done, and I think I'm going to try Anita's suggestion for doing the designs in green, then I was also thinking of using black fabric instead of white and trying gold.  I have 10 days, after all. The latest obsession really started because we couldn't find a gift bag that would fit for one of the gifts Andy made, and I have a BIG box of felt, so two problems solved.  Then for once I actually remembered that I had a bin of bags in progress, and found 5 in need of just finishing, (one not pictured), and as not being finished means the fabric has never been counted, BINGO!  Then since I was one such a roll I've been testing out some of the...

So I'm working on the third table runner, using black thread, and now I can't decide whether I should do the last one in red or black.  I'm kind of leaning toward black.  Then, on to anything else. I finally remembered to post pictures of the bowl that used up the VERY last of my green batik pack, and the tractor pillow that I'm only half-happy with: I didn't have all the exact colors, and the closest green I had is a bit too neon-lime, but it's December 15 and it's good enough.  This is what I keep telling myself and WILL keep telling myself until I get it packaged and out in the mail.    I also washed the stabilizer off the newest ornaments,  so I can get some of them wrapped up and put the rest on the tree before Christmas.  Being only 10 days away, I thought it time.......