Knitting, Sci-fi and other stuff...

      I found another skein of Mal Rios in the Cucumber colorway in a Ravelry destash.  It arrived Friday so I wound it and worked a little more on my  Killer Queen Cowl .  I had to tink back a row because reading is hard.  I finally finished section 2 and have started decreasing.  The rows were starting to feel very long when I was at the widest part.       My county fair board has finally put the 2024 handbook online.  I've been checking the last few weeks and now it's finally there!  It seems like quite a few classes have been removed, likely due to low participation in those classes.  I've done a preliminary submission plan.  I tried to fit things I've already completed into categories because there are only 8 weeks until the fair.  Two of the items I want to submit are in progress and three potential entries haven't been started yet.  I'm probably being overambitious, but that's half the fun for me.  Last year I was finishing one of my items the morning

     I made some progress on my Holden shawl this past week.  I completed another 1 and a half repeats of the lace pattern.  I've run myself out of another bead mix as well.  The rows are starting to get pretty long now.      I got my front flower bed mulched in between rain storms.  It's been raining here alot and is supposed to continue this coming week.  I got a few things washed up yesterday.  I ended up with three bags in my yarn allotment from Grandma's house.  I washed up two of them.      This one was either sewn by my grandmother or one of my aunts.  Its just a simple tote bag, but it will hold my current WIP project bags.  The other one I got washed up is a Thirty One bag.  I have a different style in this same print.  The handles are broken so my aunt had it in the trash but I rescued it.  Its in pristine condition other than the handles.  I'm going to either use it in my craft closet as is, or sew on new webbing handles.             We went over to my parent

    No post last week as we were all down with a nasty stomach bug.  I finally started feeling better on Friday.  I didn't get very much done because of it.  I didn't even get out of bed last Sunday.  I was able to finish the  Sunset Hat .   I think it turned out nicely.  I was worried the Glitter and the Sunset colorways would be too similar, which is why I put the English Rose in between them, but I think the combo works pretty well.  I finished up one more dish cloth; another Star Fish type so I won't post another identical picture.  I've made one more dishcloth since the Nerdopolis tournament ended on the 30th.  We're in a break month now.  I had hoped to get a few rows done on my Holden shawl, but that didn't happen.  I'm going to try to get it done this month.     There is a fiber festival in June, the CNY Fiber Fest, so I'm starting to plan for that.  I went last year and it was very fun.  I've perused the vendor list already.  Many of the one