Here’s my little knitter in training! Drama helped me while I was winding those mini skeins of yarn yesterday. The first time, I asked her to help, and she was quite willing, so we began, I was winding along, and she wanted to take her hands out. Of course, I said no, and she said, “but my hands will be tied up in there”. I assured her that this was not the case, and that her hands would be free shortly, but I could tell she didn’t quite believe me. She was very relieved when I got through winding to find out this was true and her hands were her very own again. This picture was taken later in the evening, when she’s had a little more yarn holding experience.

Now, if I could just get DaBaby interested in yarn instead of the dog food, my pet supplies might last a bit longer.

Hehehe. I spend entirely too much time thinking about craft supplies, and how to acquire then. And I pretty much have reached SABLE, but, still, it never hurts to think scheme plan appropriately for future acquisitions. After all, there are projects out there that cost as much or more than Luminox watches. So, I know about Elann and Herrschner’s. Where else do you guys find phenomenal deals? Because, what if I live to be 200 instead of just 150? I might need more yarn, ykwim?

Nope, not yet. Sorry. Maybe tonight, unless I decide to actually go to bed at a decent hour. Umm, guess I picked up in the middle of a thought there. I’m talking about the second sock.

What I did do in a fiber way today was to pull my sock yarns out of the bin they were in, and put them back on a shelf so I could enjoy them again. I, umm, noticed that I have a lot less than I used to have, and I know I haven’t knit it all, so………yeah. What’s up with that????? Ok, scratch that. I guess I’ve made more socks than I thought. I just checked the stash page, and it’s all here. I guess I have more in the project spectrum basket than I thought I did.

Wow, can you tell from this post that I really need a nap? I figured you could. Not that I’ll get one, just that I need one.

And then, after all that knitting, I decided I’d had enough of pink, yellow and green and that it was time to re-pack my knitting basket. The new Project Spectrum colors are black, red and metallics, so I have gathered those up. You’ll see several sock yarns here that contain those colors, and I have just remembered that I could also pull the solid red and the black/white to make myself that pair of socks I’ve been planning for a couple of years, too: The ones like I made my sock pal forever ago. There is also a ball in there to represent finishing the sweater for DS#2 and one for my Sonnet. Finally there is a ball of black feathery stuff to make DD#2 a hat.

So, fresh yarn, fresh ideas, fresh air–I may sit outside and knit this afternoon, lack of teak outdoor furniture not withstanding. I’m thinking the first thing I want to do is a pair of feather and fan socks from that black/brown/white you see in the middle, but you know as well as I do that I won’t make up my mind until I am actually ready to knit.

What have we here? This segment of project spectrum is heading to a close, and I have pulled various pink, yellow and green yarns to make some scrap projects. There will be at least one buttonhole bag out of this, and maybe a scarf. Or two button hole bags, or………..yeah, the wool is fine and the possibilities are endless. I am avoiding the urge to cast on another pair of socks for myself with great difficulty. the only thing holding me back is the sure and certain knowledge that I could not finish them within the next 9 days. But oh, the yarns I saw when I was digging to find this stuff, so soft, so pretty, so me. Sigh.

Hmm, almost mid-May and the next segment of Project Spectrum starts in June. I’m pretty sure I will finish my socks before the end of the month, if I can tear myself from this new computer long enough to knit. Speaking of the new computer, here is a picture of my socks-in-progress that I just took with the built in camera.

The colors for June and July are red/black and metallic. That means Sonota(!!), probably a hat for DD#2, and if I get through with those, I have some red lullaby here as well. One of the benefits of having enough yarn here to pay for an Orlando vacation rental is that I will be able to play along all year and never have to buy yarn, LOL. Sometimes it pays to be a yarn ho.

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Have I shared with you the plan for the poncho I am working on? DD#3 wants it trimmed in fun fur. Have I mentioned that I have a real dis-taste for fun fur? I mean, it’s ok in small doses, a little bling on an otherwise plain garment, but, over-all, I think it’s highly over-rated. She however loves the stuff, and happily makes scarf after scarf out of it, for herself and friends. I let her use it whenever she wants to, except for the one ball I am holding back for this poncho. She thinks I am just being generous and easy with my stash. But all the while I am secretly thinking “another successful hair transplant“.

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