I’ve been knitting a lot this week, but haven’t finished anything! I’ve been knitting on a pair of socks that I bought the yarn for several weeks ago. You may remember reading about it. It’s the Strata yarn from Red Heart. I’m saving the knitting to do at work on my breaks and lunch hour. I need to keep my fingers busy, so I don’t EAT! I’m almost finished with the first sock, and it’s really turning out pretty! I love this yarn!
At home I’m knitting on the baby afghan out of the varigated pastel-colored yarn that I talked about last week. I didn’t have enough of it to make up the pattern I wanted to, so I came up with a pattern of my own using some white yarn too. It’s a variation of the multi-colored block pattern that I made a few weeks ago. It’s slow-going, but it keeps my fingers busy in the evening, so I’m not EATING!
I still haven’t gotten back to working on the 30-minute-a-day UFO’s. I did get rid of a couple of projects just by frogging them and putting the yarn back into my stash to be used for something else, so I guess you could say I accomplished a little on the UFO’s. I took a count of how many I have and would tell you, but I would be a little embarrassed. Suffice it to say, you could call me the “Mother of UFO’s!”
I also went through my yarn stash in the garage, (yes, it never ends!), and re-arranged some things so I could put the yarn on shelves that would be more convenient to get to. I had them against a back wall and had to climb over hubby’s truck to get to them when I needed something. This way, I can open the door and all my yarn is right there waiting to be grabbed and knit into something! The only problem with this arrangement is people can look in when the garage door is open and see what a “stasher” their neighbor is. (Maybe this will give me some incentive to get a lot of it used up!)
I got all of my recent knitting projects steam-blocked and ready to sew together. Now, getting that done may be easier said than done! I doubt I’ll get too much knitting or crafting done this week, though. Next weekend is Easter and I NEED to get some house cleaning done. We’re having a Barbeque this year for our Easter dinner (this is something new!), and most of the kids and grandkids will be here. Not that they’re not used to seeing my yarn all over the place, but my daughter will be sleeping in the sewing room, and she probably wouldn’t want to sleep with yarn and projects all over her bed! She could get lost and we’d never see her again! Same thing for the living room. If we all sit in there and try to visit, we’d have to peek between skeins of yarn just to be seen!
You all have a great Easter and keep those needles clicking!
