A Little Yarn On The Side

It's now been 600 days since I last purchased yarn.  I think because I've been so busy with work, job hunting, and everything else, I haven't really felt the yarn-buying urge yet, which is surprising.  Shocking, really.  Okay--astounding.  Now if I just did more knitting............

If one is cutting out a thick fabric--say, a thinner fleece perhaps--if the layout instructions say to cut out 2 matching pieces on the fold, the squishiness of the fabric could be an even bigger factor than one originally thinks.  Between the two collar pieces and the interfacing, I have three separate sizes here.  REALLY separate sizes.  Luckily, if I can get it away from Callisto, I have enough fabric to cut out more collar pieces, and this time laying the pattern piece flat so the two pieces will, I assume, come out to be the same size.  One never knows for sure with sewing, but there's always hope in my heart that the Sewing Gods are in a good mood.  Or have someone else to bother. Aside from this fairly major collar issue, Andy's Valentine Shirt progresses,  and could actually be done by Saint Patrick's Day.  We're flexible like that with holidays. So, I might have gotten so excited about all the cool new designs that I ordered more...

As I'm sure all of you know, looking for a job can be a very depressing and frustrating process, and I think it's made far worse than it need be by receiving no notification or acknowledgement at all when one has taken the time to apply for a job.  I'm always grateful to receive notice when a position has been filled, but today's made my week: " After considering your submitted application materials, we have decided to offer the position to another candidate." Ha!  Glad I could help.  And tell that other candidate he/she owes me lunch. :)

Yesterday was the last day of the "Race to the Bottom" challenge on Ravelry, which I helped moderate.  An 18-month challenge to potentially use up all one's stash (if possible) or an estimated 30,000.  Several people cleared out over 100,000 yards of yarn.  Me, I did an astounding 7,474.1 yards over a total of 18 months.  415 yards a month--that's just pathetic.  It did earn me the funniest badge ever, The Dryer Lint Level participation badge!  We'll be starting another 18-month challenge on May 1, and at least I'll have nowhere to go but up.

  And ready for Me Made Monday tomorrow .  And since I can't remember if I already did one for last week, I had a chance to wear my new yellow floral jacket for the very first time ye sterday: so I'm feeling a bit Amish this week.  I even started Andy's Valentine's Day gift.  I KNOW!  It isn't even March yet.  Aren't I just speedy...............?

So 2 weeks ago I got a message from an old boss that there were a couple openings with her group in Oregon that she wanted to talk to me about and would follow up on the following Monday.  Granted, we'd already decided that I'd start looking for a job in Oregon, but that kicked us into high gear because of the possible short time frame--hence all the frantic cleaning/sorting.  And then I never heard back from her.  It's kind of weird and disappointing, but I'm more worried that she'll feel bad and potentially draw back as a friend, because she's far more important to me as a person than any job is.  And it DID get some tidying of the sewing room accomplished, so I'm kind of grateful for that with or without a job. I am still pursuing jobs outside of Idaho, and with that in mind, I decided to cancel my Vogue Knitting subscription.  I had canceled all knitting magazine subscriptions several years ago, but there was recently a pretty tempting offer for t...

If you think I've fallen behind on this blog, some of these are Christmas gifts that hadn't yet been shipped, and this is the current status of Andy's Valentine's day gift.  Ahem............ There has been crafting.  Remember the stack of new towels to embroider? 9 out of 12 are now embroidered.  These are all new designs, which is really fun.  We give away embroidered towels as host/hostess gifts, and I've been doing it for so long that it's fun to have new designs that I know no one has even seen before.  And I'm NOT just saying that to try to rationalize all the new designs.  I'd need more towels for that.  I have also finished two of the small University of Idaho table runners, and I'm ready to bind the next one: On this one I added a little decorative stitching for quilting, but it isn't really necessary as I used fleece for the backing.  I think I'll do a decorative stitch "tie" with the two larger ru...