A Few Sheep Shy of a Farm

Ahh!!!!

I had a nice long post for you and blogger had an error when I tried to post and lost it all!

Son of a . . . .

an attempt at recreating what blogger just lost on me:

Weather report:

Its a whole 1? outside right now!!!!

Okay, this just isnt’ fun anymore. I want to go to a tropical island and sip drinks with the little umbrellas in them! oh, well! That isn’t going to happen so I guess I’ll just turn up the space heater and get another cup of coffee!

What are you doing to stay warm?

Our furnace has decided to play games, it keeps shutting off and not coming back on by itself. It only restarts if you go down and do a little dance and press buttons. Not much fun, esp. at 4:00 in the morning which seems to be its favorite time to stop working, 2 night in a row now! It sure doesn’t take long for a room to cool to the low 60s or upper 50s in this weather! YUCK!!!

Knitting update:

I did two repeats of the lace edging last night. It would have been more, but I got distracted and messed it up somewhere and couldn’t figure out what I had done so I backtracked one stitch at a time until I found a row that was right and then redid that repeat. Very slow going. I also made a photocopy enlargement of the chart which seems to help, much easier to see the little squares and count them out. I’ll be doing the same with the other charts as I go. The first piece of edging is now 1/2 done and the goal for this week is to finish it by Saturday and start the border on Sunday. If I can do 2 repeats tonight, 3 on Friday night and 4 on Saturday I should be able to get it done. Then next week with the border the goal will be to do 6 rows on Sunday and another 6 on Monday since I have the day off which will leave 6 to do the rest of the week. If I do 2 rows each Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday I should be finished early and be able to work on mittens and hats etc.

I’m also working on the socks from the trip. I had realized most of the way through the 2nd sock that they were actually a bit too short in the foot so I had ripped out a couple of inches of leg and the heel on the 2nd sock, added about 3/4 of an inch to the foot, and then reknit the heel and the leg. So the 2nd sock is finished. Tuesday I ripped the entire leg of the first sock and the heel and I’ve added the other 3/4 of an inch to that foot and I’m working on the heel of that sock. I’m mostly working on these when I’m at lunch or waiting somewhere but they are going quick so I should be finished with them in a few days. This pair will be my third pair of handknit socks for myself!

Spinning update:

I had written a nice long entry here, but since blogger decided to eat it and I just don’t feel up to rewriting it I’ll keep this short. I worked on the Romney last night for a while, about 45 min. and managed to get almost a 1/4 of an ounce done. I expect to finish spinning this weeks assignment by Friday night. I might even find myself (temporarily) ahead of schedule on this!



Blogging update:

I’ve added some new stuff in the right hand column to track progress on both the shawl and the spinning and some notes on where the New Year’s Resolutions stand. I’ll keep them updated as there is anything to report.