Yes, I jinxed it.
After a gorgeous day in the 60s that permitted a few moments of bare vitamin D-sucking arms in the yard…
We woke up to this, and a snow day:
And snow days are not the barrel of monkeys when you don’t get paid for them, and then have to go in to work on your normal day off, and have to reschedule the electrician, and everything gets pushed back a week, and it’s not that big of a deal but yet sets your nose out of joint for a bit.
But the snow was only half of what they predicted and over halfway gone now.
I broke my commitment to finish shit first and cast on for a new project.
In my defense, it is a gift, or might be a gift…
It will either be fabulous or fugly – if the later, it should breathe its last breath in a few more rows, but each row takes me about 20 minutes.
And my wrist is acting up again – I started another spin last week too – I need to find a good balance of a bit of spinning to keep my wrist strong, but not too much, or not to rough/hard/nasty wool to exacerbate it.
This is rough/hard/nasty wool – bit’s o’shit I’ve gotten for a buck or so at the fiber festivals – and a bit of some very lovely soft alpaca that I feel like I’m wasting, but I never had a good plan for it.
The plan for this is a bulky, uneven, rustic 2-ply yarn to be knitted up into mittens, and likely lined with an un-unravelable thrift cashmere sweater. At least that’s the plan now – I do need some mittens, but this yarn will be hell to knit up.
And does anyone need the bottom part of a Morse sewing machine case?
It’s a pretty standard case, so it would fit most average-sized vintage machines (I had a Singer 66 in it) but it won’t necessarily match up to other Morse tops – I had this issue – and it’s in semi-rough shape, but still sturdy. It’s free to a good home, but I’d appreciate shipping reimbursement or some sort of trade. I’ve offered it on ravelry too, and will likely drop it off at the ReStore (or possibly try to sell it online) by the end of February otherwise.
(And I’ll likely find a cheap-can’t-be-passed-by machine that needs a case right after I get rid of this… but that kind of thinking has left me with 25+ years of shit to purge/sell now…)
ASTITCHMATISM 