I started another project. This time a sweater coat based on an old leaflet I've had for at least 25 years. Just a plain cardigan only longer. My store-bought sweater coat is fast deteriorating and I need a new one. I practically live in them during the winter. I plan on digging out Zach's sweater to get back to work on and if I can't find the pattern, start over with another one. I haven't gotten that far on it so it wouldn't be devastating if I had to. Still working on socks, as always. I'm discovering I'm not a huge fan of self-striping yarn after all. One skein was wound completely backwards from the other one so the patterns are reversed. I wasn't arsed enough to fix it by rewinding the skein though.
Zach wants to learn how to crochet. I've had my crochet books and magazines out looking through them because of the massive stash I've got to use up so I have room to actually live in this tiny house and he got interested. He knows the basics of knitting but it bores him so he thought crochet might interest him more. His first project is a crochet bag for his hooks. They're $10 at the store and no way am I paying that much for something he can crochet on his own. I've got one I made years ago but I have twice as many hooks in it. Way too many for it to hold. He can have half my hooks easily and I'll still end up with too many. I'm still looking for a project for me as well. I was thinking of an afghan since I can use up a lot of single skeins of yarn.
It's cold now. Unseasonably cold. I should turn the heat on but I don't have the plastic on the windows and I'm adverse to heating up the outside so I'm just wearing more clothes. I need to dig out my fingerless mitts so I can knit with warm hands. But it's not too bad in here. Yet. I think it will warm up again before we need to turn on the furnace. I never keep it warm in here anyway. I don't think we've had the furnace over 62 in a decade. I prefer 60 actually, unless it's really wet outside, then I'll kick it up to around 62 or so. And I love to sleep cold so we keep it around 50 or so at night. Although I might keep it at 55 now that I have congestive heart failure. I can't afford to get sick anymore. Not with a tendency to accumulate fluids in my chest.
We got the storm windows on over the weekend so it is a lot warmer inside. Once I get the plastic on the windows it will be even warmer. This year I'm putting plastic on the newer windows as well. They showed some signs of air leakage last year. Can't hurt. Maybe $5 a year extra for that.
I'm going to finish up supper and then crawl into bed under my warm covers. I don't have a blanket on the bed yet but I do have a throw on top of the comforter. I got a new comforter on sale this summer. It was $60, nice and heavy, for $26. Always look in the clearance aisles before buying anything. Back to being as frugal as I can since the overtime has dried up. His pay without overtime is a lot less than his pay as a foreman so it's going to be a tight winter. Just when I could focus on being frugal, after my cardiac rehab was over, the overtime went away so I never had a chance to get ahead. Now it's going to be a struggle just to stay where we are.
Baked spaghetti is a pretty economical meal for the guys. Don't know what I'll have but it will be healthy and not enough to eat. I haven't lost a pound in a month even eating under 1500 calories as a rule. Sometimes less but never over. Sigh.
Zach wants to learn how to crochet. I've had my crochet books and magazines out looking through them because of the massive stash I've got to use up so I have room to actually live in this tiny house and he got interested. He knows the basics of knitting but it bores him so he thought crochet might interest him more. His first project is a crochet bag for his hooks. They're $10 at the store and no way am I paying that much for something he can crochet on his own. I've got one I made years ago but I have twice as many hooks in it. Way too many for it to hold. He can have half my hooks easily and I'll still end up with too many. I'm still looking for a project for me as well. I was thinking of an afghan since I can use up a lot of single skeins of yarn.
It's cold now. Unseasonably cold. I should turn the heat on but I don't have the plastic on the windows and I'm adverse to heating up the outside so I'm just wearing more clothes. I need to dig out my fingerless mitts so I can knit with warm hands. But it's not too bad in here. Yet. I think it will warm up again before we need to turn on the furnace. I never keep it warm in here anyway. I don't think we've had the furnace over 62 in a decade. I prefer 60 actually, unless it's really wet outside, then I'll kick it up to around 62 or so. And I love to sleep cold so we keep it around 50 or so at night. Although I might keep it at 55 now that I have congestive heart failure. I can't afford to get sick anymore. Not with a tendency to accumulate fluids in my chest.
We got the storm windows on over the weekend so it is a lot warmer inside. Once I get the plastic on the windows it will be even warmer. This year I'm putting plastic on the newer windows as well. They showed some signs of air leakage last year. Can't hurt. Maybe $5 a year extra for that.
I'm going to finish up supper and then crawl into bed under my warm covers. I don't have a blanket on the bed yet but I do have a throw on top of the comforter. I got a new comforter on sale this summer. It was $60, nice and heavy, for $26. Always look in the clearance aisles before buying anything. Back to being as frugal as I can since the overtime has dried up. His pay without overtime is a lot less than his pay as a foreman so it's going to be a tight winter. Just when I could focus on being frugal, after my cardiac rehab was over, the overtime went away so I never had a chance to get ahead. Now it's going to be a struggle just to stay where we are.
Baked spaghetti is a pretty economical meal for the guys. Don't know what I'll have but it will be healthy and not enough to eat. I haven't lost a pound in a month even eating under 1500 calories as a rule. Sometimes less but never over. Sigh.
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