A lot has happened since I last checked in. I honestly don't know where to start. It's like, suddenly having a close friend, or relative phone you up, out of the blue asking "so tell me what you have been up to for the past 6 months..." ugh .. .where to start?
I am going to start off small, and slow. ANd hopefully I will build some momentum over the next few weeks/days, and get this Blog Ball rolling again!
1) We finally resuscitated our local S'n'B (yey!). We have been meeting every Friday, and all I can say is I have needed this so much! I love the consistency! I love the camaraderie!
2) We are carpooling to the Greencastle Indiana Fiber Event this Saturday. This reminds me that I need to charge up the camera so I can take some pics so I have something fun to talk about after this weekend!
3) I frogged the Rhiannon socks (Cookie A). I was a good 10 inches into them too. BOTH of them. GOne. I love the pattern, as it is flawless, beautiful, and a tangy knit. But I got bored. I don't know why. I think it is my frame of mind right now, with spring, and it's bursting energy. I just needed something "faster", and more "changing". The cables got monotonous for me ... frogged, but not forgotten. I will start this project again, with different yarn, perhaps next fall, or winter.
4) In Rhiannon's place, I started two new projects -- the lace socks from Spring Summer Vogue, and the Jeans Empire Tunic from the most recent Tahki Yarns Terra Collection book. I am a little bit P.O'ed because the VK website has not yet uploaded the very charts I need to continue knitting the socks. I KNOW that I was being a total keener when I started knitting the damned socks the VERY NIGHT I got the magazine ... but c'mon. If you are going to make it necessary for me to go online to print out the charts I need to finish the project, at least have them posted by the time your new issues are distributed to the public! I'm jus' sayin'! Here I am all excited to knit these beautiful socks, and damnit, I have to wait now? I am making them out of the very yarn that Rhiannon was made from, and I feel as though THIS is a much better fit for the yarn.
This weekend is Easter, and although we do not celebrate the religious aspect of it, both sets of grandparents are coming to town for a visit, and a little Easter egg hunt. I will somehow get dinner and eggs dyed after I get home Saturday night (yeah, right!). I wonder how the in-laws would feel about Kraft mac and cheese, and a couple of Hungry Man frozen dinners for Easter Dinner?
I am beyond tired.
Doing the single parenting thing again this week (and next ... and the one after that too).
I am going to go check the VK site, and then hopefully, head to bed.
