Works In Progress

 These are my current couch works in progress. These are the projects that I work on at night while watching television.  One wash cloth,  One drop spinning project. One shawl in the Indigodragonfly bag that I am making with hand spun yarn. One scarf destined to be 60 inches long, yes I have a bit to go.  

My stitch markers and darning needles are in the Altoids tin.  A great way to recycle them. 

It’s Finally Finshed Plus Commentary

 I delivered this completed baby blanket to the mom to be today.  Just 2 weeks before the baby is due.  

Commentary

My only issue was with the chiaogoo knitting needles. The workmanship of the knitting needles was, not up to my standards.  On one side the yarn kept getting stuck and would not slide like the knitting is supposed to.  I had to stop and free the yarn every 30 or so stitches. I could not replace the knitting  needles part way through the project because even though they are labeled the same size there can be a tiny variation in fractions to small for my eyes to see that can change the size of the knitting gauge.  I could not visually see where it was snagging.  This slowed down my knitting. Now that they are used I doubt that they can be returned or replaced.   Even though they are more expensive and do not have a curl free cord, I like workmanship on my Addi turbos and Lykke knitting needles better. I have never had this problem with any Addi turbo or Lykke Knitting needles.  I doubt that I will buy chiaogoo knitting needles again. 

Finished

 The baby blanket is finished. I will show pictures tomorrow.  I did ein at yarn chicken.  

Dog Pillows

 I had an incredibly bad night, followed by a BBD with a pain level of crying.  I still managed to sew 2 pillows to be filled and filled 2. This leaves me with one pillow to add my yarn scraps to.  The pillows are loaded in the back of my car.  Yes this is the 3rd  charity trip in the last 7 days.  I am on a roll.  I thought I would be able to make more pillows but the green one is very large.  There is just no comparison on the sizes.  Off to the shelter they go tomorrow. 

Less is More

 Getting rid of 2 car fulls of unwanted stuff combined with the yard sale has freed up space in the house and my head.  I now find myself wondering around the house putting things away or in the appropriate trash or recycling place.  

 Have also done some more fiber arts. Tonight I spun a little yarn, about a 1/2 ounce.  Finished project 14 for the year.  And worked on a hat.  

I am becoming a firm believer in less is more.  It’s just so hard to look at all the new spring yarn colors or look at the holiday Boxes for December and not order more yarn.  So I am in make more buy less mode.  It is so hard.  

I think I will drag the sewing machine out and bring it to the knitting room to make some dog pillows this week.  That should fill up my car one more time.  An free up more space.  

Well I Was Going Too

 Well I was going to show you the picture below and say this was the highlight of my day and I did not cry.  They were delighted to receive the box of arts and craft supplies, snacks and other goodies. Yes the art supplies included yarn.  

I was going to tell you about the lovely lunch we had downtown at Cup Cafe in the Hotel Congress named after the street it is on. For crime buffs this is where John Dillinger and his gang were arrested. The hallway to the bathrooms is lined with everything you need to know about this piece of Tucson history. 

Speaking of the hallway to the restrooms. There is a high step that you really need to look out for.  I tripped on that very step today and did a knee plant. Nothing is broken one toe looks wonky but I can bend it so it is not broken.  I have a few bumps. I expect to be a little more sore tomorrow. This is also the day I became an old geezer. I was suddenly surrounded by people checking on me.  I took a minute to pull my self together and let other people help me up.  Thank goodness I was wearing an ankle length dress so nothing showed. After getting up I headed to my original destination.  A young girl was very concerned about me and opened all the doors for me.  Sadly I don’t know her name , but to her mom and dad you are doing a wonderful job. She also walked me down the hall to make sure that I did not fall again.

I then found John in the Cup Cafe outdoor dining area. Told him about my adventure. We ordered lunch. It was very good. Then a stroll around downtown. Then a little sightseeing. Yes, Downtown has changed that much.  We did make the mistake of trying to take Broadway out of downtown, that turns into a parking lot because of the Broadway repaying project. It really looks like they are doing a sub par job at best.  I wonder what has happened to the work ethic of days gone by.  Yup even talking like an old geezer. 

Going,Going,Gone

 I promised myself that what did not sell at the yard sale would be leaving the house on Monday. Well I was exhausted yesterday. So I organized the things to go today.  John graciously load up my car so I could drop everything off at Goodwill.  At Goodwill the very nice employee unloaded my car.  It looks like I was not the only one doing spring cleaning.  There was a constant stream of cars  

Because it was the beginning of rush hour, a misnomer in Tucson.  Rush hour starts at 3:00pm and ends around dinner time.  I decided to turn right instead of left.  It was a good choice in the end.  I took Glen to Stone and went north on Stone.  Right at Prince a couple of fire trucks and an ambulance started turning on to Prince.  My guess there was an accident at 1st Avenue and Prince.  This is because the fire station is at 1st and River.  The accident must have messed up southbound traffic too.  I was so glad that everyone pulled over and we all let each other back into traffic.  This is rare in Tucson.  

I came home and vacuumed the back of my car. John loaded the back of my car for tomorrow’s charity drop off.  I am too tired to do much.  I hope that there will be knitting tonight.

Here is the picture from today.  The car is a lot smaller than the van, but I still got a full load in.