Year of Projects: Week 13

     I've started my "new" job/contract.  I've worked for this company before, just not at this site.  I brought a few projects with me, but I quickly ran out of yarn.  I've been working on a dishtowel.  I'm combining two patterns to make it.  I'm using the premise of Stay Put Kitchen Towel with the stitch pattern of Lizard Ridge Dishcloth.  I, of course, don't have a picture yet of the towel.  I took my book of postcards and colored pencils with me.  I've colored in two of the postcards in between knitting.

    When I got home at the end of the week, I had two packages waiting for me.  I received an angel package for one of the swaps I did a few months ago.

The cowl and headband are made from handspun yarn.  They are very soft and pretty.  My angel got me a lanyard set perfect for fall.  The black kitty looks alot like Jangles and the flowers are very fall colored.  There's a pair of snippy style scissors.  I love this style of scissors, I keep a pair in each of my notions bags.  She also sent me a whole slew of gummy bears and the icing on the cake:

gummy bear stitch markers!  It was a lovely mini swap package and worth the wait.  I also received the yarn I bought for the current swap I'm in.  I'll show off the yarn but I'll keep everything else a secret for now.  I got two skeins of Briggs & Little Heritage.

Its a very rustic yarn that's minimally processed.  It smells so sheepy, but I really like that.  It's a little rough feeling but I'm hoping it will soften once I wash and block the finished item.  

    On Saturday I reorganized my craft closet.  A bunch of non crafty stuff had been stowed in there so I couldn't get to my stuff easily.  Here is the before:

The entire pile in the very front and the wrapping paper doesn't belong in this closet.  I still don't have a place for all those items to go so it might get stuffed back in, but now there will be room for it.  This is after:

I wanted to have all my knitting books accessible.  All I had to do was take out the tote of sheets that didn't belong in there anyway.  I went through everything else that just got tossed in there.  I measured whatever leftovers hadn't been weighted, emptied out a few project bags, then put the new yarn I had gotten into my new yarn tote in the other closet in this same room.  I'd been just tossing things in there since June.  The yarn I got at the CNY Fiber Fest was still in a bag.  The items from the fair were still tagged and piled in the project bag I submitted.  So I went through all that and put everything where it belonged.  I also got the things I want with me in Syracuse all boxed or bagged up, so I'll have plenty to work on for the foreseeable future.

     Today we had a very impromptu get together with my parents and one of my cousins who moved back to the area recently.  It was really nice catching up a little bit.  I didn't live in the area for a little over a decade after college so I lost touch with a large chunk of my extended family.  I was hoping to get some sewing done this weekend but spending time with family was much better.

Until later.  Happy crafting!

-Q