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List part too

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I forgot to title yesterday’s post.

What I accomplished from yesterday’s list:

  1. Dinner √
  2. Clean up dinner mess √
  3. Clean computer armoire in living room. 
  4. Clean, empty and move small desk in living room.  2/3 of a √  Cleaned and emptied.  Moving it yesterday would have just gotten in the way.
  5. Find a place for the three boxes of music to live that currently reside beside the piano.  This has been something I’ve needed to do since we moved into this house.  I don’t have the right piece of furniture for this but I don’t know what is the right piece.
  6. Relocate bagpipes that also reside next to the piano.
  7. Take art down in the living room and spackle nail holes.   1/2 √  Art down, spackle today?
  8. Run a clean swiffer over the walls to get rid of any dust before painting this weekend.
  9. Finish Ms Ida mittens.
  10. Work on soaker.
  11. Knit myself a pair of seamless slippers. √ Started.

I also changed the water filter in the refrigerator.   Mr. Aitch wasn’t home and I thought it would be easy.   You wouldn’t think it would take 20 minutes.  Evidently I have no strength in my hands anymore and could not get a good grip to turn it a quarter turn and pull it down.  I almost broke the shelf.   Plus the angle was all wrong.  This filter is in the back on the top right side.  See it?  I’m only 5 foot 5 inches so I had to stand on my tippy toes to even reach the darn thing.

My refrigerator

Fortunately we only have to change it twice a year.

I was beat by 9:30 and had about an hour before bedtime.  So I took Wool and Chocolate’s advice and started on #11.

Today’s goals: # 3, 5, 6, 7 and 11.

After all, tomorrow is another day and another list…

Train FOs and WIP

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I went to a conference (work related)  in Philadelphia this past week.  Knitting on the train was great. 

 Unfortunately I didn’t get to any yarn shops.  The closest yarn shops hours didn’t work out with my schedule.  I packed enough yarn for several projects but not enough clothes.  In fact I ran out of clothes.  Oops! 

 FOs: 2 swiffer covers, an apple cosy.   All made from Sugar ‘n Cream cotton yarn in Black, Cottage Twists, and Hot Green. 

 WIP: A very good start on a soaker (using this and this)  for one of my granddaughters using Cascade 220 (Green color???) and Sensations Kashmira (Aqua, discontinued). 

Swiffer covers, apple cosy, soaker

 

The apple cosy has a red bag in it as I didn’t have any apples.  The leaf is a felt cut out that I sewed on instead of the knitted one in the directions.  I also found a cute lady bug button.  The one swiffer cover in the center is truly made from leftover yarn from all the other things I made from that yarn.   I do see a pattern with my color choices.  I like green.  

I needed the dpns from the Ruffled Bottle Sleeve (Knitted Gifts) for the soaker so I finished it Sunday afternoon.  I used about 10 yards of leftover sock yarn for each.  

Ruffled Bottle Sleeves

 

Nothing like a well dressed wine bottle.

WWYD?

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I really wanted to post this while I was away but my internet access was foiled.  I’ll post about my accomplishments in another post.  I know, you can’t wait.  🙂 

I’ve been working off and on knitting Ms Ida Chain Link mittens since the beginning of August.  I was seriously thinking of keeping them for myself.  In fact I was going to work on them while riding the train.  Did not happen. 

They are, unfortunately, too big.  Really, really big.  My entire hand including the thumb fits in there and they are way too long.  I even ripped part of the top back as I didn’t like how pointy they were. 

Ms Ida Chain Link mittens size: adult medium

 

They are not 100% complete.  No thumb and no flip top yet. 

Mr. Aitch suggested I try to shrink them.  Neither of the yarns are feltable so does that mean they won’t shrink?  Plus they are two different yarns.  One is Knit Picks City Tweed (55% Merino wool, 25% superfine alpaca, 20% Donegal tweed) and the other is Knit Picks Andean Silk ( 55% Super Fine Alpaca, 23% Silk, 22% Merino Wool).   I really don’t want to take the chance and ruin them. 

I see three options: 

  1. Rip them out and make a smaller size.  I made the adult medium.
  2. Finish them and find someone with larger hands to gift them.
  3. Put them away with the other WIPs I don’t know what to do with.

What would you do?

She’s got a ticket to ride…

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I leave Monday morning for four days to a conference in Philadelphia.  I’m looking forward to both the journey and the destination.  I’m riding the train and should have twelve travel hours to knit.

So this morning I planned to decide what yarn, needles and projects to take with me.  What I did instead was look at my yarn stash.  I didn’t write down any of the acrylic yarns so I didn’t have as much as I thought I did.  And that’s a good thing.

I need to get over to Ravelry and update my stuff.

Two WIPs are going to be tinked or rather totally ripped out, yarn soaked and unkinked, and repurposed into something else.  I have two sweaters I started for my grandson that will not fit him now.   I’m not sure what to do with:

  1. One almost completed sock for Mr. Aitch and not enough yarn for sock #2.
  2. One orange and green (Yeah, the yarn was on sale) mitten missing the thumb and enough yarn to make the second one but do I really want to?
  3. One self-striping sock yarn wrist warmer but no info on how I made it so making the second one probably won’t happen.

I did decide to take Ms Ida long with me hoping I’ll finish them.  I’m also taking some cotton for a few more swiffer covers, some wool for the Curly Purly soakers, and some miscellaneous yarn for some seamless slippers.

I suppose I’ll need to pack some clothes, too.