Moving on

Mid July saw my parents moving to a 55+ apartment (which they are loving) and my elder brother and I are renting their house with plans on purchasing the house if everyone likes the new living arrangement.  The week that my parents moved out was the hottest week (hopefully of the summer) and it was not so much fun. 

Earlier this week, had the realization that I may need to down size my craft belongings since my stuff will be living downstairs in the main part of the house and there are no lovely closets to stash things.  Currently have my yarn stashed in two chests plus one flat tote underneath the futon all in the living room, two cupboards in the dining room and in plastic totes underneath my bed (mind you there is still enough room for Rosie to hide out underneath the bed).  Still need to move down all the beading, sewing, stamping and scrapbooking supplies. 

While showing my cousin, who is an art teacher, my "new" living space, I asked her if she could use certain items from my crafting supplies.  She was very receptive to taking anything so there will be some purging of supplies going on over the next month or so and then I'll have her over to "shop" for things. 

This move has me seriously examining the items that I purchase and bring into the house because no matter how many bookcases, cupboards, etc you install it is nothing like a closet and if you don't have that space you need to either get very creative in how you store things, reduce what you purchase, use what you have, give some things up or in my case a combination of all of these!

The one that got away

Almost two months since my last post but I have written posts just never published them.  Here is my July 4th post...

Last weekend thought I had made headway on the Audubon shrug for my Mom (for me if it is too big for her).  It was rather nice outside so I was knitting out on the deck Sunday morning and had finished the first section of the back, and was ready to start sleeve one.  All I did was put the needle down on the metal table (prior to casting on) to do something and it slide off the table, down to the deck and poof! Went directly through a crack between two boards!!

Didn't mind so much loosing the needle, what I minded was that I had neglected to note what size needle I used to obtain gauge and had no clue so guessed that it was the size 7 the pattern called for (why I would think that have no clue as I NEVER use the needle size that patterns call for, my gauge is way different).

Well guess what?  Tuesday night was feeling the fabric of the back and comparing it to the sleeve.  That's right,  it wasn't a size 7 that fell through the crack.  Ripped out the sleeve (was almost to the 2nd increase) and restarted it using an 8 and will see how that feels.

In the meantime, if you want a free Addi Turbo probable size 8 US, all you have to do is figure out how to retrieve it (without removing any boards from the deck)!!