Oh! I nearly forgot about the other sweaters. One used a combination of Noro and Cascade yarns, each wool, and the red one was made with Classic Silk cotton yarn.

While I was cleaning out a few spots in the house, I came across some of my wood carvings from about 20 yrs. ago. It was a fun and challenging hobby while it lasted and, then, years later scrap booking put this house in such disarray it was intolerable. Knitting causes much less mess so I'll stick with it until the A.D.D. forces me into yet another turn. Variety could be the spice of my life if it weren't for the "curse" but, "I'll get by with a little help from my, (uh... er...), friends". La da di da........

Stepping forward

One step forward - two back....I got side-tracked after my last post a year ago. Going forward now I've finished a few projects - a bulky wool sweater pattern that caught my eye using Vero yarn and now that it's finished I don't care for the way it looks on me. Maybe it would make a nice bed jacket if I can bring myself to rip out all that work and forget the time it took to make it. The yellow scarf seen in a previous post, "Good Intentions", somehow got finished last January in the midst of hospital visits after my 89 yr. old mother fell and had surgery on her skull. She bounced back to her old self at a moderate pace while I got busy once again with awaiting projects. For the green sweater, I used O-Wool, an organic light weight yarn. Maybe I should say a sweater is finished AFTER I weave in all the yarn ends, (or tape 'em to the inside due to my aversion to hand-sewing)

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Good intentions

Now that MOST of my good intentions are out where I can see them it's time to pick one and stick with it to the end. Tough decision. No wonder I keep running out of knitting needles. Some are with socks, different sweaters or scarves and the rest are finally in the bin.

Another day - another handcrafted necessity by my industrious DH. This is his version of a "swift". The spindles are adjustable by sliding their bases out and turning them around. It will be a blessing to him, (no human hands are needed), as it will be for me when I get a HANKerin' to wind one. (Yeah, I know..........sorry). All I "need" now is a ball winder - or not.

Again, my DH was busy crafting things to make life easier for both of us. Using the wall bin will keep me from misplacing projects and yarn so he won't have to take time to participate with a search party. Beneath the bin are other twiddly things in their assigned places - stitch markers, stitch holders, darning needles and other various small notions. In the plastic shoe box lies the circular needles. There just doesn't seem to be a better way to store them. Now, everything is easy to find. The little green basket is a catch-all for small things. (Have you noticed the picture of my DD, Sammy?)

Sweaters

The agenda for today is to lay out all zillion of my partially finished knitting projects to see which one I want to finish first. I often get side-tracked from one thing to start another due to you-know-what and/or the attraction of making something quick-to-knit from start to finish. I've given most of those things, (scarves, handbags, dish towels/cloths and hats), away. The third and only sweater I've finished is my trophy for persistence. The first sweater was too holey because I substituted, (mistakenly), yarn and needle size for a pattern that called for such expensive yarn that no beginning knitter would want to chance wasting. The second finished sweater turned out bigger than expected so I gave that one to my sister-in-law to wear. She rewarded me with a gift certificate to Yarnia, a way cool yarn shop that I frequent. This picture is of my third finished sweater that I wore to Jenn's for Christmas. The pattern is "The Perfect Tee, #67, by Ann Norling, using a cotton yarn, Ulmo Multy by Araucania. (The turtleneck came from a long lost and then found bin in the basement with tags still on it from the store). Maybe by next Christmas, I'll have made something to wear with more appropriate holiday colors.