Sweater Grrrl
Why aren’t my links working? Why? Why??!!!
I guess I am going to be tinkering around with them more tonight. For those of you who keep looking at the SNB page, please don’t despair. I need to go through my code and figure out where I goofed.
Ahem. If you do want to see the pictures, go to http://www.snbfresno.freewebpage.org/pictures.html . See, it’s uploaded, it’s ON the server, and so is the links page. But for some reason, the link on the main page doesn’t work. Can you tell it’s making me CRAZY?
OK, I will stop obsessing now.
I tried out a new café- Piazza Del Pane. It’s at Cedar and Nees. I wanted to see how it would be for Stitch N’ Bitch, or for the Meetup group, for that matter. It would definitely work for a smaller crowd than we’ve got- but right now it’s new, and therefore busy.
Lo and behold, when we sat down at our table, there were 4 women sitting in the comfy chairs by the fireplace, knitting and chatting and eating and just generally having a good time. And of course, one of them was Virginia from SN’B! And here I thought I was the first one to scope the new place out…! We had a nice chat and both kind of agreed that a smaller group would work there, but not the initial crowd we got at the first meeting.
Dog sweater is finito, happily. I just need to see the doggie before I sew the buttons on, in case the fit is off. I am a little paranoid: the area that his legs need to go through looks a little skimpy, and I hate sewing on buttons. So I am determined to get it right the first time.
I actually have quite a few projects going on right now- Not strictly knitting related, but as they will hopefully give me more free time in which to knit or increase my chances to be creative, I think they count.
Organizing my laundry space in the garage is one of them. I am taking the laundry equation out of my bedroom completely: since the floor turns (almost immediately) into a sea of clothing. See, it’s like this- I pull something out of the closet, decide that I am not feelin’ that outfit today, and lay it out on the bed. Hubby wants to sleep in the bed, throws the clean, unworn outfit on the floor. Dogs come inside, sleep on formerly clean laundry. Argh!
Repeat cycle about a million times, and you’ve got one hell of a mess, not to mention going through an unholy amount of Tide, electricity, frustration, and wasted time that I could have spent knitting. Or sleeping.
So there are now multiple dirty laundry bins in the garage, for ease of sorting. There’s also one “restocking” bin for clean clothing in the bedroom closet. Hooray! Now I just need to start sorting through clothing, weeding out the stuff that doesn’t fit (me) or is falling apart (Alan).
I am also determined to make my garage laundry space more functional by adding a drying rack, additional shelving, and a fold-away ironing board. I wish I could think of some way to make it less- well, like a garage in there! Short of finishing the whole thing, (which will happen eventually, but not in the near future), I am at a loss. Somehow, I don’t think that scented candles or café curtains are going to do it. Particularly since there are no windows in there…
I went to JoAnn Fabrics and bought a bunch of sewing patterns on impulse- there was a 99 cent sale. Yes, I know that I'm a sucker, but I miss sewing considerably- and I figured that both dogs and the cats need beds, so I am going to whip a few of those out. I also found a great retro apron pattern, and a pattern for a fantastic knitting bag. And I am going to make a new needle case for my Lantern Moons.
Other than that- operation pink and black scarf is underway as of today. I think I am going to do solid pink, with the yummy yarn I got from Meg’s shop, with black edging and fringies all the way around. Very glam. I plan to make a matching head band if I have enough yarn left over. And uh….I bought different yarn for my sister-in-law’s scarf. I know, I know- it was just time to make something for myself!
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