little bit of crazy leaking out

Over at Knit Once, Purl Forever we are being encouraged to reflect on the past year . . . in yarn. I will post mine on Jan 1st, gotta have some time to contemplate.

I’ve been looking around my house, and I say house because lately it is not feeling like a home, and all I see is clutter and wasted money. Things are tight right now, they always are at this time of year, as Hubby has no overtime right now, and I always seem to block this fact out of my mind until December rolls around again and I’m left juggling. Things being tight make it worse to see all the waste.

I am going to go thru my fabric stash and see if I can get rid of some of it, I’m not sure how though; e-bay, etsy, on the blog, garage sale . . . who knows. I just need to cull some of the craft supplies. I am a bit of a craft-a-holic . . . crochet, scrapbooking, sewing, tatting, knitting . . . what’s next? The biggest problem right now is the fabric stash . . . heck, let’s call it what it is . . . hording, I have to get rid of at least 1/2 of my fabric, now.

Just when I thought things were getting better, crash, Hubby called and told me he had shattered a tooth.

“SHATTERED!? What do you mean shattered?”

“Well, it’s all jagged and missing pieces. But, it doesn’t hurt yet, and the bleeding stopped.”

Very large sigh, “I’ll call the dentist.”

Needless to say (but I will anyway), he is at the dentist. He swung by the house to pick up a check and show me the tooth . . . it doesn’t look good . . . I’m guessing he’ll need a crown and hopefully not much more than that. We have dental insurance, but I don’t know where we are going to come up with our 20% (at the min).

Today is the last day of the Esther William Syncronized Knitting. I was able to finish one hat during the official KAL and start another. I will finish the second hat this weekend so I can send it out on Monday to DH’s aunt in NY.

I am far from finished knitting hats from this pattern. My daughter has requested one, in purple, for herself and one of my knitting friends has requested one for her b’day in February. Yes, I know, she should knit it herself, but she is afraid of anthing other than knit and purl. I have told her it is easy to knit up but I don’t think she’s buying it. “Easy for you or easy for me?” she asked . . . sigh. I will prolly end up making her one for her b’day, I have some pretty Mountian Colors Mountian Goat in pretty pastels and I will see how it looks.

I am now officially down to 1 item on my knitting list. Tonight I finished 2 neck warmers for Daughter’s bus drivers, tomorrow is the last day of school before the winter break, just in time.

pattern: Neckwarmer at the blue blog
yarn: On-line Linie 60 - Tondo (100% wool)
needles: US17 bright pink plastic Susan Bates
notes: I used the neckwarmer pattern for the basis of my neckwarmers, but adjusted for the polar (or close to it) weight yarn I was using. On the bottom neckwarmer I actually sewed on 3 buttons so it could be worn 3 different ways.