Yes, Mom, I'm finally posti

I feel better today.  I think I made a mistake going for my morning walk back on Tuesday, but I did, and I felt terrible again all Tuesday and yesterday.  But YESTERDAY evening, Shari got me to go Avengers:Endgame with her and her group and that was fun.  It was exactly the type of movie I like, with great special effects, and wonderful explosions, just a little bit of comedy, but lots of action.  now, the plot could have used some work, but thats not typically why I watch movies.  I'm also glad I saw it on the big screen.

Today I woke up late and was slow starting, and I had to go up the hill and walk the neighbor's dogs twice.  their older dog was experiencing "intestinal distress" and they wanted to let her have extra chances to void.  I also ran into town because I kept dragging my feet, and their was a piece of mail I wanted mailed before the weekend and for some reason, I could never seem to get it in the mailbox before the post person dropped off mail!

I spent some time on house upkeep (running dishwasher, policing kitchen counters, doing a couple of small tasks there, getting the craft room ready for Roomba, finally starting to organize the shelves in the closets, running the Roomba in the craft room), but then I mostly spent time on craft stuff.  I think next week I want to spend a bunch of time actually sewing. I need 1)linen pants, 2)linen tops, 3)linen circle skirts, 4)some summer dresses -that Gertie dress from last summer, but because of my weight gain, I need to resize from what I did last year, 5)try and get a mock wrap dress in both woven and knit... I will probably focus on the pants and shirts,  I need to modify last year's shirt's pattern because it is too tight in the bust, again due to the weight gain over this last winter.

so...today, I kinda regrouped and reorganized my new "active project" shelf that I bugged Mike to put up a month or two ago.  I finished putting in the shelves today, and I redid the boxes for some of the projects.


I also worked on the latest Deep in the woods hat, the first one I made with 4x35 stitches would only fit over my head with my hair down, while I prefer my hats to by slouchy, and to go over my hair.  I also contacted the guy who sold me the yarn, and reordered more, because I still think I want to do another pair of mittens so I can put a lining in. I started the next hat, this time with 5x35 stitches.

The light blue yarn on the far left is some very light cashmere from colormart I got a long time ago, that I was supposed to make something for mom... and then never did.  I'm starting with the two small mittens, and putting in a very light weight lining (using two strands of the cashmere, and the 2.25 needles that those mittens were made of.  then I'll make the lining for the other pieces with the 2.75 needles that I used and am using for the other pieces.  as you can see from the picture above, I am almost out of the brown.  I think I would have enough of the colored yarns to make another hat, and possibly another pair of mittens... but not enough of the brown.  The guy said he won't be able to get to making more of the yarns until end of May, so everything except the linings will need to be put on hold until then.

I also reorginyiaez the Janesville sweater.  I finished the first one, and it is much wider then the original schematic called for.  even wider then I though it would be, as the fabric relaxed when I blocked it.  It was supposed to start at about 33', and before I wet it and laid it out to dry, it was about 38' wide.  but after blocking, it ended up being around 40 inches wide.  I started a new one with only 113 sts (I think) to start with, and going from there.  I got about 5 inches done in the movie last night!  I don't know if I will have enough yarn, but if I run out, I can order more.  Actually, once I started the first one, I thought I would need more black, so I ordered two more skeins, and I did not even need to start those for the first.  which is actually why I'm doing this one, because I wanted to use up the leftover yarn.  SO I hope I don't need to order more!

I finished off the evening with some weaving.  I have had this narrow weave going on with some leftover yarns from another project --actually, I ran out of the leftover, so the last half of it I have been using one of my old handspun as the weft.  I like how it looked.  One bit of the weave is going to be a jewelry hanging device...I'll post a picture when I get to that, and one bit is going to be for circular (and maybe even dpns) to hang in size order. we will see how that works out.  anyway, this has been on the loom forEVER it seems. But I wanted to finish this off as Shari has hopes of unearthing her loom (an 8 shaft that might be my new loom, we will see, but that is the plan), replacing my loom in my craft room, and shifting this loom to be a semi-permanent loan to a local spa aquantence.

  As you can see, I used up almost all of that warp.  Im going to see if the new person for the loom wants to see it set up before I cut the fabric off the loom.

Listened to: Kendra Elliot, A Merciful Fate.  this is the last of this series, I think she is planning to write more of them, but I have enjoyed this series, so I hope she writes more.  but I will probably like whatever she writes.  though I wish her females would keep their last names when they get married. or at least some of them.  I like this author's work, and they are good to listen too, and the audio is included in Kindle Unlimited, which is an addiotnal big plus. many of this author's books are included in the audio part of KU, which means I have hear them all.  but it has been I long while so I was thinking I might go back and listen to some of them again.

I have not read much because I have about 5 new books and I know as soon as I start to read them, I won't want to do ANYTHING else...so I keep putting off reading them. Silly, because I have been looking forward to these ones for a while.

Anyway, Its off to dinner - stew--which is a story in itself... For about the last two years, Mike has been very disapointed with my stew, so this time when he hinted he wanted me to make stew, I told him he should make it himself and write down what he did so he can be happy with what I make.  So he did, and we have had stew all week -he's been having it for lunches.  here is the recipe.

Oh! and here is a pict of me trying on that darned hat!