This is what craft room number one aka the guest room looks like when all the crafts are finely put away. The room is dusted and vacuumed. John did the dusting and vacuuming. This is usually the only time you can see all the carpet
On the left side of the room is the Murphy Bed. It folds down to a queen size bed. A nice cozy spot to hang out in.
The sewing tables have been folded up. The sewing machine put away. I am leaving John in charge of vacuuming and dusting. I just have to find a home for some blankets. They are washed and bagged. They are too small for the V.A. , Project Linus does not take cotton blankets. So I will call a friend tomorrow.
I just need to wrap a few things , put some baskets away, fold up one table, sweep and mop the floor’s, clean the bathrooms along with my usual chores and we will be ready for company. I am exhausted just thinking about it.
The best part of this companies coming is that I tossed a lot of things rather than just put them in boxes and baskets for later. I hope that this puts me ahead of the curve.
Sometimes the perils in pattern writing is the the letters and numbers dance around the page like a Conga line dances through a room. My current pattern fits this to an exact T as in T Square. Today I tried to figure out if I hit that magic sweet spot of pattern section repeats. I simply could not figure it out. So I will keep knitting and working the pattern out row by row. I just have to have things add up to my magic number and maintain the angles, it’s really not that hard until I can no longer walk, talk and knit at the same time. This sitting down to write patterns down is sometimes very hard work.
If I take this pattern row by row it is a very delightful knit. Just enough change from row to row to keep the pattern interesting. My student whom I am writing it for, loves the pattern so far. She is on section 2 around row 8. She likes the fact that after so few rows knit and purled stitches a pattern is visible. That makes me so happy. I am only 2 full sections ahead of her so I have to find more time to finish this.
In other news the bathroom is now painted. I just have to pull the tape off the grab bar. Give it a few days to dry. This is where a second shower is very helpful. Then put everything back where it belongs. Also just a few projects to go before craft room 1 is ready to become the guest room. My new storage containers for craft room 2 are somewhere in Phoenix. Hopefully they will arrive tomorrow, they were supposed to be here today, alas this is the season of shipping hiccups.
I also came up with an innovative way to put my shoes away. I slip on one pair and walk to my closet Take the shoes off and put them away. I repeated this process until all my shoes were put away while bring laundry from the clothes line to the closet’s. I got 2 chores done at once and added steps to boot.
I am hoping despite be sore all over, all day that I will sleep tonight. Wish me luck.
Here I sit at 2 a.m. waiting for the aspirin to kick in. All because I. choose not to wear my tendon isolation band while knitting last night. As you know I have chronic tendonitis do to arthritis. It just seems to jump all around my body. Currently I have knitting elbow also know as tennis elbow. Since I do not play tennis anymore, I call it knitting elbow.
My arm was feeling good all day. So I thought that I was lucky That it went away very quickly. Yeah, I am not that lucky. So here I sit at 2 a.m. waiting for the aspirin to kick in. I am wide awake.Pain has away of doing that to me. So I might just do some chores while I wait. Since I did not get many things done yesterday. I was having a bad body day except for my elbow. Then again I can feel the aspirin starting to kick in, so I just might be lucky enough to go back to sleep. So maybe I will just get a jump on the day and start a load of. By the way, I am so predictable that the prediction program on my blog had picked out I was going to start a load of laundry before I even had it typed in. A very good algorithm, way to go programmers.
Will the deep cleaning ever stop? That is a question that I have been asking myself a lot lately. It seems the more I organize and the more I get rid of the more there is to organize and get rid of. It seems like when I get one layer removed another layer pops up.
I was very clever in my organizing today. I managed to combine 2 boxes of quilting supplies into one box. That gave me a free box to bring sewing supplies to the garage. I also combined all my fabric into one box that already had a space in the house. That leaves the odds and ends to land in the right shoe box storage containers. Then I can find a place for them. I also started a new box for Goodwill. No new boxes were needed today which is a very good thing. Less boxes equals less stuff. Which equals more organization. Which equals more progress. Which equals more time to make and creat more donations and new patterns.
For the other room, I have ordered 2 storage chests with 3 huge drawers each. That will give me room for my spinning supplies and other loose fiber related items. One is almost a direct transfer, the other will hold additional items. I hope by Friday I can have both rooms finished.
I am 1/3 of the way Into a new scarf and have already used 6 skeins of yarn. I must admit that 2 of those skeins were started tonight so I still have at least 6 skeins more to finish this scarf. Hopefully it will be finished soon
Then maybe I can take an online course Saturday and play with some beads after I put other rooms in order.
This is my 86th completed project for this year. I really like the colors. The pattern is They Stash Dive Scarf by Summer Lee Designs. This scarf is over 5 feet long. It’s meant ti be folded in half which makes it great for my knitting guild project. It’s going to northern Arizona where it gets really cold. This also brings up the question: can I finish 13 more projects by December 31st? This year I might not make my goal of 100 completed knitting and weaving projects in 2021.
I really don’t know why I am still using a to do list. Lately I am half way through and have no more energy to finish my list. It seems lately that it is wishful thinking that I can get everything done in a timely manner. I think it is more appropriate to call it my wishful thinking list of things that need to be done. I know some things need to be done in a timely fashion and other things not so much.
I know that I am supposed to give it a month or so for my latest life style changes to kick in. Let’s face it, the last change was 3 days ago snd I should in my humble opinion be up to full speed and then some. My family would say give it time. I am just to impatient.
So I am wondering if I should return to setting priorities and ranking items. I will have to think about that. In the meantime I think that I will call it a day.
