It’s been a long few months, with big personal changes and the utter chaos that those can bring. Now that things are closer to moving in some direction rather than just flailing about wildly, I wanted to return to the blog if for no other reason than to talk about all of the fun I’m having knitting in the few moments I can manage to steal in my current schedule. I recently finished my first pair of socks, for one thing, my first lace project is underway, and I finally made a trip to WEBS a few weeks ago.
Still have to kick the camera into working, but stay tuned…
I was hoping to end the year around here on a more inspired note, but there has just simply been so much going on in the non-blog, non-fiber world for me that I’ve got nothing to talk about here. I’m very much hoping that will change in 2009.
To anyone still wandering through: Happy New Year, and may the next year be kind to you and yours.
I’d forgotten just how exhausting it is to work retail at the holidays. Yikes.
Anyway, for kicks and to see how it works out (and because I think a little competition might be good for Etsy), I opened an ArtFire shop: Neatly Tangled. Had a sale already, which I’m going to take as a very good sign, seeing as how I’ve only managed to list two patterns.
I hope the holidays are bringing you joy rather than the appallingly common misery.
Has pretty much been a bust from the crafting perspective. Between the insanity of pre-Christmas retail work and trying to work through some things at home, it’s been more than wild. And now to add to the chaos I’m relocating my workspace to another room, so I’ll be ripping it all apart and putting it back together again and no matter how I try, that will take days. But we’re cruising along here pretty well, for all that. So yay! LOL.
~Chasing kids, mostly. The little booger-heads are hell to civilize. Stupid phases.
~Working an annoying mid-shift schedule at the Mega Lo Mart.
~Knitting a hat on my lunch break. Slowly, because knitting invites conversation and even though I can knit stockinette in the round and talk at the same time, the split in concentration slows me down.
~Not working on the ripple, because I need the kids to be in bed to haul that project out. I have a pic of the start of it, though:
~Made Evangeline:
and a New York Scarf:
and New York Hat that is too big to really be worn, but will have a photo taken eventually because it was my first hat knit in the round and so is cool anyway.
~Making sets of dishcloths for a friend.
~Did I mention chasing kids?
~Did I mention our schedule being all shot to hell?
~Oh, and I had some sort of flulike bug that knocked me out for a good solid week and is still hanging around a week after that. And I’ve been trying to finish winterizing the apartment. And trying to get things clean-clean instead of just barely good enough. And stressing out about Christmas, because we’re wicked broke and because the family shenanigans are exasperating. And…well, you get the picture…
Hopefully I’ll be able to find some sort of rhythm here soon.
But then this post would be as delayed as all the others around here. I keep thinking that I’ll post when I clear off the camera…
Anyway, my absolutest BFF, who has been putting up with me since I was 8 years old, sent me a birthday present. Janet Evanovich’s latest hidden in a huge box of odds and ends yarn. Seriously…the girl sent me a huge helping of random stash. The sort that takes years to accumulate. Scraps, but sizable ones. Nothing matches, and that’s the beauty of it…
Anyway, it’s almost all acrylic, and almost all worsted weight, so I’ve decided that it needs to be an afghan (or two!). And since I have never made one before, and this sort of assortment is perfect for it, I’ve decided that I’m going to make a ripple. And I’m so stupid excited that I think I’m going to set it up right now, instead of going to bed like a sensible person.
Yay!
A year ago I knit my very first little garter stitch rectangle. I’ve come a long way since then:
Crochet will always be my first love, but knitting is my wild crush. What can I say? I hope the next year is half as much fun as the first one. 
Its been a couple of weeks without any real forward progress. Going to work, back from work, didnt get to crochet at all…cant bear to report that every couple of days. So Ive been ignoring the blog instead. Heck, I havent even taken a trip down my blogroll in most of a week, probably. Im not sure whats going on…it just seems like suddenly life has filled up all the little bits of space I was previously using to blog and design and play yarny games in.
Im hoping to spend some time the next couple of days turning WIPs into FOs. Ill let you know how that goes.
It’s hard to write a blog about crochet when there is no crocheting going on.
I’m not sure what’s happened these last couple of weeks, but I can’t seem to make any time for working on any of my various projects. My work schedule has been alittle weird, which doesn’t help, but still…I look around myself and see all sorts of things that aren’t getting done just like they weren’t getting done before, only crochet has been added to that list somehow. Weird.
Anyway, there will be another pattern coming that was in the works before the crazy-whatever came to visit, and there’s another that’s nearing completion, ever so slowly. I suspect Im just ready to slow down for a little while, and that’s fine. All part of the cycle, you know? I am thinking that it is time to redesign this site, so I may tackle a project like that while the ideas aren’t coming as rapidly for designs.
One thing about even the tiniest business…There is always *something* that needs to get done…
I have all sorts of thoughts swirling in my head at the moment, but I’m short of time to make sense of them. It’s been a weird week. My work schedule was a mess because of our inventory and I’ve been under the influence of an on-again, off-again toothache that keeps popping up out of the blue to make me miserable. I honestly had no idea that it was possible for a freaking tooth to hurt this bad. As a matter of fact, I’m not even sure which one it is, because that whole side of my mouth goes nuts when I trigger the thing. I think I might have figured out what was setting it off, so I can at least avoid making the pain worse until I can get it fixed. But it’s sort of scary, because when it goes off it’s completely incapacitating until it calms down again. I’m worried it will go crazy at work and I’ll lose my mind right there in public.
Anyway, around all of this I’ve been working. My sample for my next pattern is almost done (if I can ever settle on a new border), and it ought to be out of testing in time to release it next week. I’ve been testing, too, and I can’t wait to be able to point you to the patterns I’ve gotten to test (well, I’ve only made it through one of them, but I have high hopes for tomorrow…heh).
It’s past my bedtime, but I wanted to check in. I feel bad updating this so seldom, because I have no attention span and tend to stop reading blogs that are as boring as I’ve been lately. With any luck, soon we’ll be out of the totally-focused-on-keeping-the-lights-on stage of our little financial catastrophe, and the words and the crochet will no doubt flow much better at that point. Crossed fingers, if you’re so inclined, and thanks for your patience.
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March 26, 2009 12:54 pm | 
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