Tiny Needle Tuesday

 

You can count the new additions to my Garden to see how many quiet sit down days I had last week. Four. Bathroom painting, migraines, yard work and a sick Pup (she's fine now) ate up all my time.

I can also blame this goat. It's the middle goat from Goat Load and I had a devil of a time figuring out the colors. The pattern colors don't always work for me so there was a lot of trial and error. I'm still not sure about that white ear. That might need to change. 

I did some more appliqueing on the Patchwork blocks. I'll be ready to add another row soon.

Funky Flowers got a green center ring finished and the white ring started. I wish I could say I was getting better at this but I'm not. I think I'll have to learn to live with the wonkiness or finally admit that needlepoint is not my thing.

Poor Dear Jane has been languishing for so long that I forget about her. I did get two of her lattice pieces sewn on and made the next two. She's still far from getting finished. The hard part is still to come. 

Bagged

 

The new Connecting Threads catalog came out last week and I was sorely tempted to buy more material to make some simple project bags but then I remembered I still had this sitting there giving me the side eye in the sewing room. 

Instead of hitting that purchase button I unloaded my cart and got to work on a lined knot bag.

With a bit of drama and a lot of cursing, I got one bag finished. The best thing I can say about my sewing skills is that I got the sheep going in the right direction. I found a coordinating ball of yarn and set out to get two socks cast on out on the deck in front of a fire. 

By the time it was too dark to see, I had two socks on one needle. I cheated and cast them on separately, worked the cuff and then transferred them onto one long circular. I hate casting on twofers on the same needle. It's for crazy people imho. 

Yesterday I hobbled myself to a shady park bench with my new bag and sat and knit while The Mister walked Pup. My nasty case of Plantar Fasciitis wasn't helped by spending hours on a ladder painting that bathroom. Luckily for me, sitting and knitting is pretty much the only cure. 

Mum's the Word

 

Do you miss yours as much as I miss mine?

Happy Mother's Day.

You Can't Always Get What You Want

 

I was really excited about getting tile for the bathroom. With all that white, I thought something with some character would be in order. Didn't happen.

I couldn't talk The Mister into anything but the same old, same old. Now we've got three bathrooms and a laundry room that all have pretty much the same tile. The difference? This tile is 13 by 13 inches while the ones we have already put down are 12 by 12. That little difference made the The Mister have a crisis of indecision in the store. I'd had enough hemming and hawing by then-and so did Pup so he decided to take a chance on that extra inch. Men.

Friday Fluff

 

Buoyed by inspiration from the MDSW,  the fluff corner saw a bit of action this week. I'd forgotten about the hat I started last winter. I'll have it finished soon.

The Pi Shawl survived its cat attack and is back in progress. In order to get one 500 plus stitch round done a day I'm playing a game with a stitch marker. I move it along in big chunks as I knit and I try to guess how many stitches I've marked off. It keeps my brain from going belly up and makes the whole round go faster-in my mind. 

Something new is a granny square afghan being made from....

...my TdF fluff from 2023. It's BFL in a colorway I dyed called Barbie's Dream House. I wish I knew where that BFL came from. I'll have to investigate. I've never crocheted with my handspun before and it's...interesting. It's a bit splitty. If I ever spin for crochet again I'll have to be fierce with the plying.

And....coat number one went on without a hitch yesterday morning. Coat number two is going on this morning and then we are off to buy tile for the floor. Is it really possible this project may soon be coming to an end? I can't wait. I'm at the point where the clutter is starting to get to me. I can't wait to have those shower doors out of my living room and all that concrete board out of the hall. 

Auxiliary Check In

 

My auxiliary projects haven't had much love this week. Wolf Pup has had the most seeing that I had to thread the reed three times in order to get it right. In my defense, we are now canopy covered which means I get very little sunlight until those leaves fall again. I can't see a thing in here. I did buy myself a floor lamp with natural light hence all the re-doing from finally being able to see my mistakes. 

I was really on a roll with Patchwork of the Crosses but even it's slowed down because we are finally painting the bathroom and it's going to take a lot of coats. 

Spiral Chicken says hi. I did get another corner done. I admit to being fired up again when I saw the table of projects the rug hooking guild were working on at the MDSW. 

In case you are wondering what color the room will be, it's the third one down. We call it "drywall gray" but it's real name is Bunny Gray. The entire rest of the house is painted the top one, Distant Gray but we thought with the new white shower and white cabinetry we better go a bit darker. Every home magazine declares gray interiors over but we still like it. It goes really well with clutter. 

Wednesday WIPs

 

Thanks to sitting in traffic coming and going from the MDSW on Saturday I got a big chunk of work done on the Static twins. The more I get done on these, the more I dislike them. What's with that big speckly section in the middle? It's an ugh, for sure. 

Since I finished all the knitting on Bon Amie I thought I better pick up some more colorwork to keep my mojo going and a pair of socks seemed like a good idea for summer. Since the fit of colorwork socks is always an issue I made a swatch in the biggest size so I could try it on and figure out the best size for me. Now that that's done I got started on the ribbing. 

The big news is that I finished weaving in all the ends in the body of Bon Amie. Now I've got those sleeves to tackle. I thought this would be a terrible chore but it turns out it isn't nearly as bad as I thought.