This is the most practical purchase I made at Stitches South. The heels of my Tofutsies socks have worn thin, and for a long time I’ve wanted a really pretty wooden darning egg to help with the mending. This hand-carved beauty is made of walnut and came from the Knitting Notions booth. Their store is located in Nashville and they have an online storefront as well.
I love this. It’s something beautiful that I’ll actually use, making it an easy purchase to justify.
Stitches was fun, but I seem to have come down with some kind of post-convention crud. I’ll try and post tomorrow.
I’m going to Stitches South on a bus with the Charlotte Knitting guild. The bus is sponsored by Universal Yarn, so props to them.
To whittle down the clutter in the house, I’ve been maintaining a strict one in / one out policy on my stash for a while now, and that’s not going to change just because I’m going to be in a giant convention center filled with indie yarn vendors. Five skeins have been sold from my stash this week, and tonight I’m going to try to foist off some more on a friend. If I come back from Atlanta with a crazy amount of yarn, I’ll be clearing out my stash like I’m shoveling snow off the driveway.
Not that I would do that. I love snow. And yarn.
Well, I didn’t say it would be easy.
Em’s hayfever is in full swing. I’ve bought an air purifier, am drying the clothes in the dryer instead of hanging them out, and am basically letting Em do what she always wants to do anyway, which is hang around the house and do nothing. Like mother like daughter.
Her allergy is to oak pollen. It affects me some years too, but not this year and not like her, poor kid. We have a giant oak tree in the back yard so it’s hard to get away from. Claritin or the other long-lasting medications seem to have no effect on either of us, so mainly we take preventive measures and suffer.
I sent her to school this morning, sniffling and tanked up on Bendryl, with instructions to the teacher to treat it like an illness and call me if she thinks Em needs to come home. If she’s not learning anything, then she might as well not learn it here in our hermetically sealed bubble.
Em drew this picture this morning and is giving it to a girl in another class whom she wants to get to know better. I’ve blurred out her last name and her teacher’s last name, just in case. First she left off the final line and said, “This will show Yohayra that I want to be her friend.” Then, while brushing her teeth, she came tearing out of the bathroom and added the final line. I think that was a good call. It’s kind of a “If you liked Cats, you’ll LOVE Les Mis!” sales pitch, but bashful. It worked on me – I like Em, so now I want to know who this Allyson kid is who’s so similar to my girl.
I’m off to run some really quick errands before coming home and staying by the phone, just in case.
It’s IEP meeting time! In a half hour, we’ll meet with Em’s “dream team” of specialists from her school. They’re wonderful people and we’ve always had a good relationship, but these meetings are still exhausting because of the laser focus on an emotional issue – our child and how best to help her.
Wish us luck!
ETA: It went well. Thanks, y’all!
Today is my husband’s and my fifteenth wedding anniversary. It’s been fantastic and I’ve never regretted it for a moment. I can’t wait to see what the next forty five years will bring.
Why forty five? Because we agreed up front to re-negotiate after sixty years and I’m pretty sure I need to throw something into the vows about not stealing the covers.
I kid! Love you, honey!
Hey, Charlotte knitting crew! I’ve got a few spare bare-root strawberry plants, leftover from planting a strawberry jar. If you want some and will be at Books-A-Million tonight, let me know so I can save you one.
I’ll let Veracity sum up where we were when we left off.
Veracity: So. Two enchanters. Four spearmen. Val on the far side of the room untying captives.
Palin: I’m going to try to kill a spearman.
GM Vaschon: Ok, make the attempt!
onlinehost drtvini rolled 1 20-sided die: 4
Palin: sigh. Let the sucking begin.
More sucking below the cut.
FO: Little Spring legwarmers
Yarn: About 95 yards handdyed Dale Falk superwash wool.
Needles: Size 3US / 3.25mm
Pattern: CO 30. k1p1 for 3/4″, stockinette for about 8.5 inches, k1p1 for 3/4″. Bind off.
Ravelry project page.
Notes: These were for ‘s little girl. She received them today, so it’s safe to post about them now. asked a while back for legwarmers in a variety of colors, and I’m doing them as I find time in the knitting schedule. These were fun because I used my box of 1/2 inch pipe, also known as the yarn-o-matic, to dye the yarn specifically in these colors to make this stripe repeat for this pattern.
This was my second stab at this yarn. The first is the ball at left, which was too fluorescent for what I was looking for, and the second was the ball on the right. Also, the stripe repeats were too long as seen in this post. The second take turned out just as I hoped. So can say that not only are there no legwarmers like these in the world, there’s not even any yarn like it in the world. That’s only fitting, because is one of a kind!
These legwarmers are a fun little project and I always enjoy making them.
