Happy Pi Day

In honor of Pi Day is served chicken pot pie for dinner. I might have gotten burned out on hats. In other news I started working on another UFO project. I have 4 Modular Baby Blankets in various stages. When I finish those I should have 2 more empty project bags. The pattern is available on Raverly and Iloveknitting.com. I would love to see your finished blankets.

Stash Busting Part 2

Another day another project completed. Today at lunch I started hat 11 - 2020 and finished it before bedtime. As long as I am home and curtailing my outside activities, to be read both The Tucson Festival of Books and the 4th Avenue Street fair have been cancelled do to concerns about the current pandemic.

I figure this is a really good time to knit, sew, weave and spin.  I know I will not completely empty my backlog of projects. I hope to make a sizable dent.  I also know that for somethings they will land in xxl storage bags for a few months until they are delivered. That’s ok, because they will be ready to leave the house.

It’s time to call it a night so I can be productive tomorrow.

Stash Busting

My goal this year is stash busting. Today was an exceptional day. I got two stash busting projects finished. So here are the details. Hat number 10 - 2020 was finished first. Followed by another shawl using leftover yarn from The NH Shawl pattern. I had 1 1/2 skeins leftover, so I made a 1 of 3 A Shawl Study using Neve yarn by Juniper Moon Farms.  On the shawl you might wonder why I pictured the shawl with a tiny bit of leftover yarn. This means that I won the yarn chicken game tonight and did not have to tink* out a whole row and re knit it as my cast off row.

This means that my 18th and 19th projects for the year are finished.  Since this is the 11th week of the year I might just make my goal of 100 finished projects this year.  This works out to almost 2 projects a week.

*tink is knitting spelled backwards.  To un knit a row of knitting.

A Day Off

I took a day off today.  I slept until noon.  Took a leisurely walk around my neighborhood. Then spent the rest of the day relaxing.  I should really do this more often.  

Food

I have developed a love hate relationship with my food since last Thursday. I really hurts to eat even something as soft as grilled salmon. Yet I can’t get a balanced diet eating only soft food.  I find myself staying up way to late so I can take aspirin right before bed so I can get 4 or 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep. Have I mentioned that I am the most impatient person when it comes to pain. So forgive me while am am grumpy.

Fifty Fifty

My days have progressed form being totally out of it to being out of it only fifty percent of the time. I can’t wait for the stitches to come out next week. Although I think I can get use to having soup for my main meals very easily.  I guess I am like my dad in that way. Give me a good hearty soup and a slice of bread and margarine and I am golden.  Throw in a piece of fruit for dessert.

I am taking advantage of when I am feeling good to get house work done. Then I go and take a two or three hour nap.  I am trying very hard not to over do things, but I have a very bad track record.  I am trying to get to bed early tonight.  So I will cut this short.

Feeling Better

I am feeling better tonight. I did not sleep well last night,but got caught up on sleep today.  I am hoping for a higher energy day tomorrow.

On the knitting front I finished the brim on hat number 10 and accomplished the increase row plus 1/2 of an inch.  I am getting better at the Russian join in knitting. It is now to the point that I can not see it once the join is knitted in.

It time to turn the music on and go to sleep.