New Discoveries

Tuesday I had to go to the dentist office and have some work done on my teeth. Afterwards I could only eat soft food and was told not to do anything strenuous. I had a lot of yarn laying around in baskets that needed to be put away so instead of knitting I organized my knitting.

In the process I discovered I had a lot of yarn. I keep giving away boxes of it but I still have a lot. I have enough yarn to knit 3 or 4 pairs of socks, unending shawls and scarfs and numerous sheep, Alan dart patterns and loads of knitted toys and animals. I have numerous projects set aside with the pattern and yarn ready to go and somewhere along the line I've misplaced some of my needles but I think they are just in with those UFOs in the other closet.

In the end all of the yarn went into large tubs grouped together by

cottons
sock yarns
fuzzy and decorative yarns
dk weights
heavy and bulky weights

It's amazing to me that I have an entire tub just for sock yarn. Lot's of it is the leftover remnants of socks previously knitted but I still can't get rid of it. It might turn into baby socks.

Now all of the tubs are in the utility room, ready but out of sight. The current projects are in the picnic basket hanging out in my bedroom closet, close at hand and at the ready.

Timmy the sheep

Today was Sunday and after cleaning the house yesterday I cleared my desk for an assembly party in the work room. Timmy the sheep went together wonderfully. I also finished another party mouse and a Christmas tree. Lots of accessories for the party mice still need to be knitted before they are complete.

At the same time I'm knitting on an eight hour baby blanket. I figure if I can do 18 rows (one repeat of the pattern) than the blanket will be done in a week. The Plymouth Encore worsted weight yarn feels nice and soft and knitting with 2 strands held together on size 13's also help in the speediness.

So many projects I want to knit on but one does have to balance them all out.

Artists show

I just learned last week that I'm going to be the featured artist for the summer at my local library. It's going to be all of my knitted mice, sheep and assorted characters in 3 large cases. I've been given lots of advice on how to display them (backrounds, flooring etc) so I'll have to get cracking on it.

I have a few more bags of animal body parts that need assembling so they can be in the show too.