A Little Yarn On The Side

Thanks everyone!  I have to admit, I didn't think I'd make it a full year without buying fabric as my previous attempts have failed spectacularly.  I'm struggling to make it to 100 yards for the year, but today I'm at 92.76 yards used up so far, and with NOTHING coming in all year, that's a dent.  Maybe not a big dent, but a dent all the same.  In case you were wondering why I haven't made more progress this week, I have taken up a new hobby called "snow shoveling."  We have a corner lot and a 3-car garage, plus some older neighbors who can't shovel snow, so it's become a time-consuming hobby.  While I can do it without injuring my back/hip, it does wear it out pretty thoroughly, and Mother Nature being a bit of a jerk, we get the most snow when Andy isn't here, so it's often a solo hobby.  I think I'll be giving it up as soon as possible.  Boise gets snow, but it rarely sticks around this long, and until a heat-wave of 30 de...

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...