Things move slowly

My heel has made no progress, it is still only half turned and my other projects are only dreams in my head. I do however have a child that has longer and longer periods of not screaming, this is blessing enough. I have high hopes that soon the screaming will be minimal and I can do some knitting too. And maybe eventually I'll be able to work in my other hobbies too! This prospect is very exciting for me.

Progress...Or Lack thereof

It's amazing how little knitting I've done lately. The time flies by but very little of it is dedicated to making super great warm fuzzies. What a bummer! My sock is languishing in my knitting basket with a half turned heel, and the other projects I was going to start have not even been pulled out of the yarn stash. I keep thinking of things I want to do but somehow they don't get done, I actually feel proud of getting my heel half turned. Soon though, things will calm down and I will again make headway in turning the mountain of yarn in my house into warm wearables.

Best Project Ever

So I haven't been writing much over the past year, mostly because I've been bone tired, and the reason I've been so tired is because I was working on the best project I could ever have started, this guy:



Right from the get go I was amazed at how much energy it takes to make a baby and that hasn't changed after he was born.He's tiny, he's cute, and he's demanding. Seven pounds of bottled up scream will sure take the energy out of a normal knitter. So I haven't been doing much but tending to him, hopefully I will get more energy/time/sleep in the future so I can write more.

Lame

How'd I get to be so lame? I last published a post over three months ago. To my three loyal readers I apologize. I will be better.

On that note, here are my new year's resolutions:

1. Pick up after myself
2. Write a 2nd draft of my story "George"
3. Eat vegetables (this used to have "more" in it but I figure my chances are better at completion if i just keep it simple, i.e. I ate broccoli today! One down.)
4. Exercise
5. Blog (one more done!!)
6. Practice piano
7. Clean basement
8. Plant garden
9. Decorate for the holidays (just Christmas, not all of them)
10. Read books
11. Vacuum
12. Sweep

I made 12 because chances are better that I'll do something about 12 small ones than 1 big one. It's all about the small accomplishments.

Disorganized!!

I realized that part of my inspiration problem lately is my utter lack of organization when it comes to my yarn and notions.

Not long ago I had all of my yarn stocked in an orderly fashion by project in a dresser and my needles were all in one spot and, well, kind of a jumbled mess but they were all together anyway. Now my system is all in disarray because of two things, one: a disgusting and destructive moth infestation. Those squirmy fuzzy creeps did not get to the bulk of my yarn but I took preventative measures and put it all in the deep freeze anyway. And two: a remodel of the room in which I stored all of my yarn.

It happened like this: I took my yarn out of the dresser to put in the freezer and as it sat in the freezer with all of the cruddy moths dying from cold we started to remodel the room that the dresser was in. So the dresser got moved to another room, there it sat inviting me to put stuff in it that needed to go somewhere that wasn't the couch or the floor, so I did. Now the dresser is half full of other stuff and my yarn is in plastic bags in several different spots in the basement. Plastic bags are not as easily accessible as a dresser or as good for taking a quick inventory. I also happen to be paranoid about taking the yarn out of the plastic bags in case the moths should decide to revisit their old home, which doesn't help the situation.

Now I'm not sure what to do. Maybe I'll re-channel my organizational energy and clean out a closet instead.

Just Cinch It!

So I completed this sweater and I knew it was big as soon as I finished it, but I had hoped that blocking would help. Unfortunately it did not. I tried it on and it appears to be perfect for a person about two rungs up on the size scale from me. Hmm...I think this will be okay because parts of me are about to scale up thanks to the baby boy hiding in my belly but it still kind of droops and sags in a weird way. The pattern calls for putting in hook and eye closures to keep the front together invisibly and I'm not a big fan of adding them to knitting. What to do?

Just cinch it!

I think a belt is the answer. The pattern has a lovely reversible cable on the plackets that I can adapt to make a nice matching belt, and I think that it will afford me the flexibility I need while camouflaging the largeness of the sweater. BRILLIANT! I'll keep you posted on the outcome. Sometimes my great ideas are much better in my imagination than in reality. :)

Hmmm...

I finished my sweater and I find myself with no big projects to work on. This doesn't happen very frequently and I'm kind of lost. I started some socks but those don't count as a real project. Socks are filler they're what you work on when you don't want to figure out how you got that extra stitch in the cable pattern five rows ago. Usually when I'm in this situation I have a million ideas about things I want to try or items I need (mittens) but this time nothing interests me. Hmmm...what to do. I think I had better take a good look at my yarn and see what I've got. Looking at the yarn always gives me ideas, plus I just like looking at it.