You are Merino Wool.You are very easygoing and sweet. People like to keep you close because you are so softhearted. You love to be comfortable and warm from your head to your toes.
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Gosh, that has been nagging me foever now! Now, I can sleep nights a lot more peacefully, knowing I am Merino yarn. LOL
Life has been slowing down a teensy bit, yet seems busy still. Eye Dr. appointments for everyone, Christmas shopping, parties for the kids with all of their different activities going on. I have been making time for my knitting. I take advantage of all and any time that I can. I think people are sick of seeing me with knitting in hand everywhere I go, but I really could care less.
Recently, my hubby told me that his business partner was quite upset with me about my knitting. WHAT?! Yup, when we had the Open House/Party for our rehab house, I sat in a corner quietly knitting away on a baby shower gift. A beautiful and lusciuosly soft, yellow hoodie sweater. I had people (a young model/actress) sit and talk for a very long time with me. Everyone felt "comfortable" being near me and talking. I think his business partner felt like I was monopolizing too much time with the model and that had I not been there knitting, she would have been flirting and making over him. Yeah, he's an arrogant, pig headed egotist. Besides, no one was interested in buying the house, they were there for the free booze and food...who are we kidding anyway?
His business partner said, "Tell your wife, next time to leave that crap at home. She's there to mingle with the potential buyers (where? as I look at all of the people coming through getting snockered and eating themselves silly) NOT sitting around knitting." He was very haughty and arrogant about it.
My husband looked at him and said, "Well, you won't have to worry about that again...(long pause while his partner puffs up, thinking he has laid down the law)Because I told her she didn't have to come to any more Open Houses if she didn't want to. She doesn't want to be anywhere near you and neither do the kids."
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I guess he got all flustered and stuttering, trying to find a response to that statement. He started apologizing and trying to make excuses. My husband said it was comical.
I really don't see the problem. I am not smoking or doing something bad. I am being productive with my spare time, making something practical and beautiful...possibly even a gift for someone. So, get over it.
So far, I have learned to knit mittens on my circulars, just like I do my socks, toe up. So far so good. The thumb took me a bit to figure out and then finally it clicked and I am on a roll. I made a pair for my son (proto types) but have altered the pattern to improve it. The part where your fingertips are were too square and did not have that nice rounding that we associate with mittens. I need to make longer cuffs though. I used some of my handspun yarn for the main part and some left over Mountain Color wool for the fair isle pattern,(oh yeah! I learned how to do fair isle knitting too!) thumb and cuffs. It looked very home spun and cozy. My son has a Christmas Party for his scouts and they play "Dirty Santa" so he needed a gift for that. Ok, the price limit for the gift was $10 and I am sure we can all agree, handspun yarn and Mountain Color wool yarn is NOT cheap, but these were basically in my left overs basket, and they took me 2-3 days to knit, but I had to cook and clean Thanksgiving Day and the day before, so really I only had a few hours into them. Also, I think it will make their game all the more interesting, becasue some of those boys KNOW I knit and had seen Taylor's mittens. Several of them were coveting them and trying to talk my son out of his. LOL
My son has big hands for 14 so they should fit MOST everyone. So now the game becomes very interesting,
1. Do they fit?
2. Can you keep the other guys from getting their hands on (or in this case "in") the mittens?
3. Pray they don't fit the Scout master, he'll be all over them!
I took a break from mitten knitting to do a little decorating. I can't find the tree! How can you lose a tree??? Well, if it's possible, I can. So, I am out back in the shed, looking for the tree when I see a double polly wrapped and duct taped box on top of some things....I had to wade thru the boxes and furniture to get a closer look and what did I see? NO, NOT THE DEAD SPIDERS!!!
The box had YARN it! I snatched it down, all but ran back to the house and tore into it. There must have been 10 or more skeins of handspun and hand dyed wool from 2 years or more ago! YEAH BABY!!!!!!
So now what to do with all of that splendiferous yarn??? more mittens? nah...maybe with the left overs...Scarves? yaaaawnnnn...I know! A felted bag....yeah, I have been wanting to do one of those forever...so I have started working on that. I have to knit it bigger than what it will really be. So it needs to be longer than it is wide. It shrinks up more in the heighth than in the width. I will post pictures tomorrow with some rather vague directions. LOL Being this is not a store brand of yarn that can be easily purchased, I can only give you generalizations. I have the link for the felted bag that I got the idea from. I'll post that soon too.
There was some acrylic yarn in there too. A skein of black (must have been from my granny square days) and a skein of white (from when my oldest daughter learned to knit). My daughter (who no longer knits and now refers to it as a "GRANNY SPORT")wants one of those extra looooooooooooong black and white skinny scarves. I have half a mind to tell her to knit it herself. LOL but we all know what a pushover we mom's can be, I'll probably start it for her when I am done with my purse.
The day is getting away from me and I am missing out on valuable knitting time...LOL
so I better go rotate some laundry and check on the kiddos. They are working on their school work now and have some catching up to do. They are volunteer workers at the local library (they have to put in 3 hours a week) and had to work yesterday, so it cut into some of their "school time".
I'll post pics soon and some links.
katcha
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