Weathering the Storm

I suspect The Weather Channel has been playing us for suckers. That big Atlantic snow storm we were eagerly expecting yesterday looked like this.

We did get some major accumulation but it wasn't the fluffy kind.

 The bay was pretty angry about the whole thing too. Expecting tons of snow, the entire region was shut down- schools, government, pretty much everything.

 The guys who are working on the new whatchamacallit out in the water were probably glad to have a day off. It would have been no fun facing those waves.

In anticipation of winter's late arrival, I had started another pair of Lopi's for a friend and....

  ...added a few more rows to my thrummed mitts.
One can dream.

Woolly Wednesday

There is a lot of woolly things happening around here but I've already posted about those projects many times. The only new thing I have going is actually an old thing. Two years ago, I made this little batt from some Merino I had in the stash. I started to spin it and then lost interest. For no good reason I picked it up again the other day and began to finish spinning it.

Some of my favorite spinning projects are those that I just spin for no good reason-just spinning for the sake of getting to play with a spindle.

Got Snow?

No, you are not crazy. You may have seen this post before. I wrote in on February 27 and meant it to be published on March 5th, then I went and clicked the button so it was published on February 5th by mistake. I tried to fix it but it published instead on February 28th still with the date of March 5th so I deleted the whole darn thing and started over.

Jeesh. All I wanted to do was to show off some crocus I found growing in the woods but the whole thing seems a little anti-climatic now after all that drama.
Oh, and guess what they are calling for here tomorrow? Snow. Lots of it. Of course, I'll believe it when I see it.

Another Slippery Slope

 Two years ago at the MDSW, The Mister bought these do-dads for making primitive hooked rugs. Being a latch hook kind of guy, he never warmed up to any of it.

I'm not going to say I picked it up out of boredom because with all I have to do every day I never get bored. I picked it up because I am...well, um...insane. It's the only reasonable explanation.

I was actually trying to convince a bored Mister that this was fun. It is-but I don't want him to think it is fun anymore because I want to do it. Me.

He bought all these lovely wool pieces that you have to cut into narrow strips to use like yarn and you can put them anywhere you want, It's like painting with wool.

What's not to like about this?

Crazy

The crazy sweater now has a crazy sleeve. Of course those stripes were going to do crazy things once the circumference grew smaller.

You know it is only going to get even crazier when the other sleeve turns out with completely different stripes. It's going to be one crazy rainbow explosion.

Thrumming Along

 I finally found a quiet minute to figure out this thrumming thing but I needed a little help.

The You Tube video walked me through every step.

It was very helpful.

Before I knew it I had a small pile of slightly wonky thrums.

I didn't really have enough thrums to get very far but I was eager to see if they worked.

To my surprise, they did.

 Aren't they cute?

Look at that cozy inside. I'm betting that next winter I will be making lots more of these.

In Like a Lion

I hate March. It is a long month full of bad weather, bad tempers and for the most part mud and wind.
I am trying to stay as positive as possible by focusing on the one and only thing to look forward to-St Patrick's Day. No, I'm not Irish but I pretend I am on March 17th.

Ages ago Daddio filled a bucket with Irish flag colored paper pieces so I am slowly but surely working my way through them while dreaming of warmer weather.There is nothing fancy going on with them. I am just putting blocks together for a simple table runner that will most likely be done by next St Patrick's Day.

 If you haven't caught the paper piecing bug yet and have no idea what I am talking about, take a look at the back and it becomes clear. Daddio covers the stock paper squares and then we I whip stitch them together to create quilt blocks that fit together without any fancy math or sewing. It's relaxing and portable quilting which for knitters would be like making plain socks-only with fabric and much sharper needles.