Its all true, the boogie girl is real, and you've found her. She knits, sews, spins, does pottery and writes it all down in this blog.
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Help!Help! I've been trapped by my yarn!
Yesterday I went to my mailbox and I had a surprise. Now I just think it's really nice to get a card or something for my birthday, but what did my friend Anj do, on her vacation none-the-less? She bought me some Rowanspun 4ply tweed in one of my most favorite colors. Its gorgeous. See: 
Immediately I try thinking of what am I going to do with this and I can't wait to cast on. I loved the idea of gloves suggested by Anj. So I was getting ready to start and what happened, the yarn attacked. It heard my plea from the other day (scroll down one entry) and said no more WIP's!!!! Then the other WIP's got up took a picture of me pleading to be released to remind me of how pitiful I am and that I need to really finish one of them. 
So now I've decided that since I can't put this yarn down that I will wear them as earrings for a while. Big earrings are in right?
Onto current projects. I was going to go spinning with a great group of ladies yesterday but it started to snow really hard and I turned around (its an hour drive) figuring no one would show up in the snow. I went to look for yarn to finish up this vest i'm working on. I needed one or 2 more skeins. Nope. All out. I got some other yarn to make a sweater. When I got home, it was no longer snowing and I was kicking myself for not going to the spinning thing, I searched the net for 2 skeins to finish this vest. I was so bad. I got 4 skeins of yarn (I'll make my brother something out of the left over) and the Rebecca number 26. But I did work on the vest and am almost done with the back. No pics until its done. What's the point, its just a big pile of grey yarn. Not that it ever stopped me before from taking a picture. But I do have one more picture for today. Last night we heard a bang out in the garage. I looked, no one there, maybe the wood pile is falling, I go back in side where its warm. This morning, the same thing happened. Now its been severely cold here. 20 degrees below zero in the sun with no wind. When I looked this morning I saw the culprit of all the noise. Our soda had blown up. I've always stored it out there with no problems this time cans split and one blew its top off and out of the carboard package. I haven't foudn the top yet. 
Its the stuff without caffeine so no real loss, at the cold didn't attack my root beer. The soda is now resting and thawing inside the house. Probably making a sticky mess on my kitchen tile.