Well I just found a new fun site, the daily knitter, thanks to Tracy! The only thing so far that I had to smirk at a bit was the following statement:
“And finally, swear to put yourself on a yarn diet. No more new yarn purchases until everything you already have is used up. “
Everything….I just don’t think that is possible! I think it is reasonable to say go a month or two with no new purchases but hey if I am finishing a dozen projects and I feel I deserve something new & pretty you better believe it’s gonna be new yarn! Although I could just make my yarn stash into some kind of store where it’s all organized prettily and ready to use instead of on cones or all shoved in plastic ziplocs inside their canvas cubes. But that just means more organizing & cleaning & I am done with that!
On to knitting. I took time this morning, on the first day of the kids summer break, and organized all my loose patterns. I have two 3″ binders with just knit adult sweaters/tops, six 2″ binders organized as follows; kids, hats/scarves/ponchos/shawls, crochet & knit afghans, gloves & socks, my patterns and finally a binder with instructional materials ie knitting guild info, stitch patterns, specialty techniques, blahblahblah.
After all that I decided to use a sweet folder I got from Thuy as my upcoming project folder. So I put the pattern & swatch in the plastic sleeve together so now when I want to start that next project all the info is there at my fingertips. Grab the pattern, yarn & go! I love it! Unfortunately with how many projects I like to have going I am afraid my folder will fill up fast. It’s like my eyes being bigger than my stomach but with knitting. So what would that be….got it, kinda lame though…my folder being bigger than my entire needle collection. I will run out of needles to have everything on well before I run out of yarn or patterns!
Today was a stockinette day. Just working on Sadie’s bedspread. Got another 4″ or so done in an hour. I didn’t knit much, I found myself either folding laundry, cleaning the kitchen, telling the kids to clean up the play-doh or the pirate ship that moved from room to room or out here mindlessly looking at crap online. See? I knew I was more productive when the computer was at the office & my pc was broken! Damn technology! Too bad I don’t make any money off of this stupid thing! It just sucks money out of me, how is that right?? Oh well, such is the American way!
Happy Solstice tomorrow everyone & Happy birthday to my mom!!