Waiting for a plane…
At last check, temperature at home is 49 degrees. It’s 75 here. I really don’t want to leave, but all this sun is starting to get to me. I guess we’re used to that grey and drizzle at home.
See you on the flip side.
Month: January 2014
Kauai!
We’ve been in Hawaii all week, but I just haven’t gotten around to posting about it. I have been taking photos, though. We’ve had a great time, it’s good to get out of the gloom that is the Pacific NW this time of year. We leave for home and reality tomorrow. For today, I’m going to enjoy every moment of this tropical paradise. Here are some photos.
A nice sunset, one of several.
That’s a monkey pod tree. I think the canopy against the sky looks like lace.
John just having fun, drinking something that looks radioactive.
Jurassic Park! Actually it’s the Allerton Botanical Gardens, but this is the tree in the movie where the little girl found the dinosaur eggs.
The Spouting Horn.
And of course some knitting! Aloha!
90 Days!
90 Days without buying yarn! On to 120!
Holy Moley!
Or,
337,666 meters is a lot of yarn!
Those aren’t actually the exact words I used this week, but I figured I’d try to keep the public swearing to a minimum around here.
I mentioned my Just Knit It campaign a few posts back. As part of that, I joined a Ravelry group called Stash Knit Down. I got inspired to update my yarn database, and have spent the past few weeks digging through boxes and reorganizing a bit, deleting yarns I’ve used or given away, adding a few that hadn’t been accounted for.
Then I copied the meterage into a spreadsheet and added it all up.
337,666 meters. That’s 201 miles of yarn, people.That includes about 11,000 meters of handspun, but STILL.
Holy Moley, indeed.
So I’m not only in the Stash Knit Down group, I’m Cold Sheeping, meaning I’m buying no yarn for awhile. I’m at 89 days so far, and counting. Tomorrow I get my 90-day badge.
And I’ve started a few new things to celebrate. (From stash!! Go figure!!)
This is my Alexandra Shawl, a pattern by Dee O’Keefe. The cool thing is that yarn is my handspun, vintage 2009. Please ignore all the dog and cat hair on my carpet.
Here are a few old photos of the yarn in progress and done.
There’s about 550 meters of that, which will definitely help decrease that big number up there.
And I started another sock. No, I haven’t finished the last pair. Sue me.
Mountain Colors Weaver’s Wool Quarters, in Crazy Woman, which I find somewhat fitting.
How about all of you? Anybody else dare to post their yarn meter/yard totals? Anybody else need to go Cold Sheep on buying yarn?
22 Little Clouds, Finished!
Well, this one’s been finished for awhile, I just never got around to getting a photo of it. Here you go.
All pinned out!
And done!
Project Details:
Pattern: 22 Little Clouds
Needles: Chiaogoo circulars, size 3.75
Yarn: Classic Elite Inca Alpaca, deep olive brown, 4 skeins. From Deep Stash, Bin #1. I used almost all of it
For: Me.
What I Learned: I’m discovering the joy of small projects. Instant gratification! I started this on December 8th and finished on the 13th. It’s actually a few more than 22 clouds around the edge, since I made it a bit bigger to use up as much yarn as possible. This is a terrifically easy pattern, perfect for knitting in a meeting where you are supposed to be paying attention. It would be good TV knitting. I’ll wear this one a lot.