Today was pretty good. I spent some time working on the new pattern. Finished one scarf, pictures to come later. Fix someone’s blanket and taught the difference between leading and lagging legs. If you are a knitter and don’t know what this is we need to talk.
Came home and made dinner. Turkey burgers, yummy. My hands were too tired to do much knitting tonight, but there is always tomorrow.
So I will call it a day.
Not my best day. I let the stress get to me. Although I did manage to reorganize part of craft rooms 1 & 2. Tomorrow will be better.
Today I had more plans than energy. So after an early morning run to get groceries, putting together dinner and putting the rest of the food away it was nap time. I was really to tired to even eat lunch before my nap. So the rest of the day I did small chores in little sprints.
On the good news side, I finished the first 3 sections of my new pattern. Now that I don’t have to do the math for every row, it should go much faster. Yes it’s one of those geometric patterns that I like to walk, talk and knit at the same time it’s easier that way.
We had a good Halloween day. We did just in time decorating. The Halloween decorations were out for less than 12 hours before they were put away for next year. We only had 3 bags of candy leftover, so John agreed to take them to work to leave by the coffee pot. I also found out that kids don’t like marshmallows for Halloween candy treats. They still loved the pencils, pens, animal erasers, bubbles and assorted Halloween toys. We had about 40 kids this year.
I have enough pens, pencils and assorted Halloween toys for next year. All I need to do is buy more candy. Hopefully next year we will be back to normal for Halloween. I really like handing out the candy and treats. I have had enough of this no contact Halloween stuff. This was my Halloween set up for tonight. I kept putting out more candy and bags.
I was in the mood to clean today. So I am filling up a few trash and recycling bags. I also included 2 loads of hand wash and 3 machine loads of laundry. I am still not 100% so I took breaks for knitting. I also found my box of stitch markers to repair, so that will be added to my to do list. I also put a few things away, but more is leaving than staying.
Since we are not on a busy street I made 50 Halloween gift bags and have the candy ready to put out. We are doing a no contact trick or treat again this year. John will decorate in the morning. I have decided that John will bring all the left over candy to work with him to leave by the coffee pot. I just have not told him yet. I am sure it won’t be a problem.
Since I over did things yesterday, I tried to take it easy and have a slow day. I almost seceded. Unless I am sleeping my inclination is to keep moving and going. To that end I used a bag of poly fill in the craft room as a desk. I then proceeded to empty and throw away or recycle most thing. I did find a pair of circular knitting needles that I did not realize that I had lost. Filled up the to be shredded basket that I just emptied on Wednesday.
I did a little knitting on 2 different projects. One were finished. We also tried not to watch every show that dropped today. We did save a few for tomorrow. Well it’s getting late and I am going to call it a day.
Almost everything that I have worked on since January is leaving the house today. The count is as follows: 50 hand knit hats, 21 hand knit scarfs, 4 hand woven scarfs. I acquired 33 pairs of socks and 12 backpacks. I really think the volume of items Surprised John this morning. I know that I fell short of my yearly goal of 60 hats, but I must face the fact that it was a bad hand year. The fact that my hats are knit on US size 6 & 8’s verses the scarfs which were knit on no smaller than a US size 11. By the way the larger the number the bigger the knitting needles are. This makes them easier to hold on a bad hand day too.
I used John’s couch to lay out everything for one last picture before they left the house. I almost covered the entire couch. Everything is now packed up to drop off at The Flowing Wells School District Clothing Bank. It makes me very happy that I can use my idle time like this.
