Quickie

Driving for seven hours in one day is tiring.  And I didn’t drive at all this extended weekend.  I rode everywhere.  I’m still tired!

Mrs. Professor liked her slippers.  I started another pair of the seamless slippers for Dr. Professor but didn’t get both of them finished.  I was knitting in the car and discovered a major flaw about ten rows back on the second one.  I couldn’t correct the mistake while riding (motion sickness issues) so I will work on them this week.  Dr. and Mrs Professor will be in our area over Thanksgiving (next week) and I hope to give them to him then.

Another Swiffer cover is about half way finished.  I didn’t get as much knitting done as I anticipated.  I did have to stop and look at the scenery.

We toured Biltmore in Ashville, North Carolina.  Have you been there?  Awesome to say the least.  We also traveled a bit on the Blue Ridge Parkway.  The views were breathtaking!

Mr. Aitch did a fabulous job with his portion of the program.

If I can get home from work tomorrow while it’s still daylight, I will show you my latest yarn order and the plans for the yarn.  I’ve already discovered I didn’t order enough yarn for one project 😦 and must see if they can send me more yarn in the same dye lot.  Substituting one yarn for another has always been a problem for me.

I have a lot of Christmas knitting to do and I will save the socks for after-Christmas-knitting.

It’s here!

Yay!  My yarn arrived this afternoon just in time for me to pack something new for our road trip.  Of course, the yarn already has 1,286 miles on it.  Almost 1,000 more than it should.

It was dark by the time I got home from work so I don’t have a picture to show you the yarn I bought.  I did glance through the sock book (Around the World in Knitted Socks) and discovered I didn’t have the size 1 needles to start any of the socks.  Of course I didn’t look at all the patterns but the first few definitely use size 1.  I may regret my plan to knit every sock in the book.  Size 1 needles are small!

I’m taking the soakers and Swiffer covers to work on in the car.  I still have to sew on the soles for the seamless slippers I’m gifting to Mrs. Professor.  I’m also taking yarn for the Musica Mitts and a fabulous hat pattern from Spud and Chloe to make for the some little heads that will need to be covered this winter.

I probably won’t get to post until Tuesday. 

I must finish packing.

 Have a great weekend!

MIA: yarn

This winter I thought about following in cpeezers footsteps (pun intended) and knit my way through the book: Around the World in Knitted Socks.  She’s knitting her way through the Joy of Sox.

Last week I ordered some yarn and the book (Around the World in Knitted Socks) from Knit Picks.   Ship date: November 3.  Estimated delivery date: November 8.

I got the tracking info and watched my yarn get closer and closer, then farther and farther away.  The process started near Columbus, Ohio (point A).  I’m only 299 miles from Columbus (point E).

Where’s my yarn?

From point A (Columbus, Ohio) to point B (Martinsburg, West Virginia) to point C (Capital Heights, Maryland) to point D (Greensboro, North Carolina)  to point E (me) is a total of 1,093 miles.  Over three times longer than it needed to be.  Of course, I don’t know for sure if my yarn is on its way to me yet.  Greensboro, North Carolina is the last known location I have.

They practically went right passed my house!  They could have called me and I’d have met them somewhere along the road!!

I was hoping to have this yarn and pattern book by Wednesday.  I’m not too optimistic right now.

No hide was (permanently) harmed

I am making another pair of seamless slippers using the same heathered green and variegated autumn yarn combination.  These need to be finished by Wednesday evening.  I had gotten to the ribbing part and use dpns (double-pointed needles).  I left them on the leather sofa when I got up to do something.  And when I came back to work on the slippers, I sat on the needles.

OUCH!!!

I was lucky neither I nor the cowhide sofa got punctured. 

Boy oh boy, do I have a sore spot on the back of my leg!