...arsed to rewind the backward self-striping skein of sock yarn after all. It just didn't look good at all as a second sock so I frogged it and rewound it. Only to find a knot fairly soon into the skein. I just snipped it and kept winding. I'll add the two together when I get there. It won't cause too much discrepancy between the socks. I hope. I do hate knots though.
Zach is wanting to learn to crochet so tonight we're going to sit down and get started. I'm thinking of doing some crochet myself. A blanket of some kind, to use up the single skeins I have all over the house. It would be nice to keep my stash down to manageable proportions. It's not that I've bought all of this yarn. A lot of those single skeins were given to me by well-meaning people who saw that I did a lot of charitable knitting and wanted to donate what they had stored for 30+ years. And I can't say no apparently. I'm thinking some blankets for the animal shelter since color wouldn't be so important there.
I got some plastic on my living room/bedroom window last night. I'll get two more today. It's hard work for me so I can't just do it all. I don't plan on using the furnace yet anyway. It's still not too bad in here if we dress warmly. Around 58F right now and I'm getting ready to start a load of clothes so when they go in the dryer it will vent into the house (with an old piece of panty hose on the vent.) Zach is going to tear out the tile in the foyer so we can put a rug down there this year. I wasn't thinking too clearly when I had Tom put down some ceramic tiles there. We can't put a rug down because there's no room and the tiles get so slick when you walk in with wet shoes from the snow, we've had near misses with falls and such. Especially when carrying groceries in.
Had a bit of sunshine this morning but it's looking gloomy out there again today. I haven't seen the extended forecast yet. I hope it warms up a bit so we can mow again and get the weather stripping on the front door. I thought we had more time for that. Apparently not.
I'm still working on the sweater coat and the sock. I've got a couple of baby blankets going that I should finish up. One is in candy corn colors. Just a garter stitch patchwork thing but it's pretty nice and soft. Not sure where these baby blankets will go. Maybe the food pantry or if I see a charity for donations of blankets for winter. I'll keep looking.
Time to get up off and get something done though. It's dark enough for lights in the house but I'm in my super tightwad mode right now so unless I need to read or knit, I'm not turning the lights on. Off to do laundry.
Zach is wanting to learn to crochet so tonight we're going to sit down and get started. I'm thinking of doing some crochet myself. A blanket of some kind, to use up the single skeins I have all over the house. It would be nice to keep my stash down to manageable proportions. It's not that I've bought all of this yarn. A lot of those single skeins were given to me by well-meaning people who saw that I did a lot of charitable knitting and wanted to donate what they had stored for 30+ years. And I can't say no apparently. I'm thinking some blankets for the animal shelter since color wouldn't be so important there.
I got some plastic on my living room/bedroom window last night. I'll get two more today. It's hard work for me so I can't just do it all. I don't plan on using the furnace yet anyway. It's still not too bad in here if we dress warmly. Around 58F right now and I'm getting ready to start a load of clothes so when they go in the dryer it will vent into the house (with an old piece of panty hose on the vent.) Zach is going to tear out the tile in the foyer so we can put a rug down there this year. I wasn't thinking too clearly when I had Tom put down some ceramic tiles there. We can't put a rug down because there's no room and the tiles get so slick when you walk in with wet shoes from the snow, we've had near misses with falls and such. Especially when carrying groceries in.
Had a bit of sunshine this morning but it's looking gloomy out there again today. I haven't seen the extended forecast yet. I hope it warms up a bit so we can mow again and get the weather stripping on the front door. I thought we had more time for that. Apparently not.
I'm still working on the sweater coat and the sock. I've got a couple of baby blankets going that I should finish up. One is in candy corn colors. Just a garter stitch patchwork thing but it's pretty nice and soft. Not sure where these baby blankets will go. Maybe the food pantry or if I see a charity for donations of blankets for winter. I'll keep looking.
Time to get up off and get something done though. It's dark enough for lights in the house but I'm in my super tightwad mode right now so unless I need to read or knit, I'm not turning the lights on. Off to do laundry.
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