Currently Open Fiber Projects

Cross stitch started:
-Daffodil bowls (small, on linen)
-Daffodil bookmark (I think?0
-Poppy and cornflower needlebook and scissors keep (needs finishing, if nothing else)
-R. & M.'s wedding sampler
-Hardanger bookmark (needs finishing)
-Gigantic urn project (over 40 colors, I've been working on it for something like 10 years)

Knitting started:
-Pi shawl in sock wool.
-Slit up the front Cottage socks for E. I finally found them, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to get the edges not to curl. I may just rip these back, and make some nice slippers for E.
-Shrug - the neck ribbing was too tight, so I ripped it out, and will re-pick up the stitches and redo.
-Adjust the length of my cottage socks, since they're too long in the foot and I feel like I'm going to trip.

Sewing:
-L.'s dice bag
-M.'s dice bag
-M.'s furoshiki
-Various dresses
-Bloomers
-Roumanian blouse

Things to start soon:
-T.'s baby blanket
-crochet ball
-another knitted ball
-E. & T.'s cross stitch for the wedding


No wonder I feel overwhelmed!

Books I Have Read This Year

Bath Tangle - Georgette Heyer - decent. A nice romp.

Gigantic Post

I have been "blah" lately, and withdrawnish, so I haven't been posting.

That Michael Pollan books seems to fit nicely with the French Women Don't Get Fat book, which I am reading, and hoping to implement. The problem is that it seems to take so much time - learning what quality ingredients are, how to cook them, and how to savor the meal. I sometimes favor the food energy in, don't make me think about it method of eating, and this will be a big change. I'm sort of leery of it, yet fascinated.

I did 18 points of damage in one blow, as a 3rd level rogue on Saturday night. Way cool! (Crit hit, flanking sneak attack bonus)

I found the socks I'm working on for E., my baby blanket yarn (Lion Pound of Love), my missing tapestry bag that T. gave me and I have been looking for, and my nostepinne. They were all under the mending. I wanted to start doing some of my enormous pile of mending last Sunday, but was overwhelmed, so I embroidered instead.

I started a pi shawl on Saturday night, because I had not found the above yet, and I needed something brainless to knit during the game. In the Knitter's Almanac, the first lace pattern for the pi shawl, the decreases do not lean in the directions I want, and it took me a while to figure that out.

I am also reknitting the shrug collar, think I need to retoe some socks at a shorter foot length, and have decided to frog my first pair of socks, since I like the yarn a lot, but do not wear them because they are kneehighs, and do not stay up.

Major organizing project: ravelry: is going okay. I need to upload pictures, and sort out my groups, and I should be done.

This is a pretty good Austen fanfic recommended by someone at ML.

I had a problem with an Amazon.com order, and I talked to their customer service, which was a pleasant experience!