It's St. Patrick's Day!
I have had a most productive weekend.
I finished the major knitting on my St. Brigid sweater, and the four pieces are now blocking on the guestroom floor. Once they are dry, I will do the seaming and then pick up the stitches for the neck and collar. It's nearly done!!!!!
I watched all my Netflix. (Lark Rise to Candleford, how I love you!)
I got five loads of laundry done (the last of which is in the dryer as I type).
I'm on the home stretch of knitting on my second Christmas sock. Guess I will be able to wear them NEXT Christmas :-D
I wove two more mug rugs on my loom.
I finished some photos that I took last weekend of hem stitching for weaving and emailed them off to my class teacher so he can use them, if he chooses, in his handout - and discovered that I remembered incorrectly from my class last week and was doing it wrong. Good thing I looked at them! (I don't think my error will make any difference on the mug rugs I wove.)
I got my Podcast put together, filmed, edited and uploaded.
I walked on the treadmill.
And I've cooked and eaten well all weekend long.
Setting the intention that I would love being an Ovo-Pescetarian was a good plan, because, so far, I do! It has already made a big difference in how I feel, in just under four days. Plus, I must have been holding on to a LOT of water in my system, because I've been peeing like a race horse for the past three days :-D (Sorry - probably TMI - oh well ;-D).
Here is a photo of my haul from last weekend. You'll notice how restrained I was :-) Last year's stash busting really had an effect on me, I guess. The only yarn in the photo is the skein I entered in the skein competition. I entered this one in "Best Use of Color," and I won that class! That was exciting!! The blue polar fleece socks were my door prize. I have no idea what I will do with them, but I thought they were pretty cute and they actually do fit my feet :-D
The black and purple is Merino/Bamboo from Gail White, and the blue/green/purple silk was from A Twist in Time, as was the glitz. The three cones are weaving yarn (Bamboo) that I got from Hillcrest Fibers, and that thing in the back? That's a hackle that I picked up from Diana Armes Wallace. I took her blending class last fall at Fiber Daze and have been wanting my own hackle ever since. The fibers I bought I bought specifically to try my hand at blending again :-)
The last thing is a little pin that is sitting on my yarn. You can't see it very well, but it's silk ribbon embroidery. I liked Carol Hagen's class so much last year that I took it again!
It took me all week to recover from being away for a few days - I didn't build in a recovery day this trip. Probably a mistake . . . still, I had a wonderful time. And I made up for any lost time with this weekend. I'm also making an effort to sleep more - which undoubtedly is having a good effect on me and my energy.
Like I said, I had a very productive weekend :-) And now I'm off to meet my crazy family at some Irish bar for St. Pat's. :-D
I finished the major knitting on my St. Brigid sweater, and the four pieces are now blocking on the guestroom floor. Once they are dry, I will do the seaming and then pick up the stitches for the neck and collar. It's nearly done!!!!!
I watched all my Netflix. (Lark Rise to Candleford, how I love you!)
I got five loads of laundry done (the last of which is in the dryer as I type).
I'm on the home stretch of knitting on my second Christmas sock. Guess I will be able to wear them NEXT Christmas :-D
I wove two more mug rugs on my loom.
I finished some photos that I took last weekend of hem stitching for weaving and emailed them off to my class teacher so he can use them, if he chooses, in his handout - and discovered that I remembered incorrectly from my class last week and was doing it wrong. Good thing I looked at them! (I don't think my error will make any difference on the mug rugs I wove.)
I got my Podcast put together, filmed, edited and uploaded.
I walked on the treadmill.
And I've cooked and eaten well all weekend long.
Setting the intention that I would love being an Ovo-Pescetarian was a good plan, because, so far, I do! It has already made a big difference in how I feel, in just under four days. Plus, I must have been holding on to a LOT of water in my system, because I've been peeing like a race horse for the past three days :-D (Sorry - probably TMI - oh well ;-D).
Here is a photo of my haul from last weekend. You'll notice how restrained I was :-) Last year's stash busting really had an effect on me, I guess. The only yarn in the photo is the skein I entered in the skein competition. I entered this one in "Best Use of Color," and I won that class! That was exciting!! The blue polar fleece socks were my door prize. I have no idea what I will do with them, but I thought they were pretty cute and they actually do fit my feet :-D
The black and purple is Merino/Bamboo from Gail White, and the blue/green/purple silk was from A Twist in Time, as was the glitz. The three cones are weaving yarn (Bamboo) that I got from Hillcrest Fibers, and that thing in the back? That's a hackle that I picked up from Diana Armes Wallace. I took her blending class last fall at Fiber Daze and have been wanting my own hackle ever since. The fibers I bought I bought specifically to try my hand at blending again :-)
The last thing is a little pin that is sitting on my yarn. You can't see it very well, but it's silk ribbon embroidery. I liked Carol Hagen's class so much last year that I took it again!
It took me all week to recover from being away for a few days - I didn't build in a recovery day this trip. Probably a mistake . . . still, I had a wonderful time. And I made up for any lost time with this weekend. I'm also making an effort to sleep more - which undoubtedly is having a good effect on me and my energy.
Like I said, I had a very productive weekend :-) And now I'm off to meet my crazy family at some Irish bar for St. Pat's. :-D
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