meanwhile…

i think i want  to purchase this as a kit, with enough extra yarn to lengthen it appropriately.

first fall sock!

the mate is on the needles (no frost is on the pumpkins…)

it be fall

at last.  i’ve been knitting a bit recently:

a felted needle case

and a little triangle scarf out of silk garden stash

still working on finishing the chemise sleeves and got some blue cascade 220  to make a scots bonnet, dedicated some other stash cascade to some hand knit hose, and plan on completing the finishing on the summer tweed jacket i put by two years ago.  should i make a witch hat?  naaaaah.  but i seem to be stuck on accessories and such.

 

in related news, i wanted to cast on some socks, but i can’t find my yarn!! i used to have it out but put it somewhere, apparently:(

THE END OF PHASE C!

summer is over, i go back to work tomorrow, and i have effectively finished the outlined phases: digging out the fiber studio (spring) the painting space (july) and now the study (august)! i have put all the like with like and have still to arrange and load up the things that need to be put away, but at least they're in their correct vicinities and not in boxes lining the hall and iiving room, etc. now what's left is that putting away and arranging of the smaller closets and shelves (in the studio, the 2 hall closets, and my bedroom clothes closet) over the next few weeks (and labor day weekend?)

and then, when the weather cools, the next phase: clearing out the big storage closets--in the study, and the big one in the living room--so i can use them to pack away the last big things that are just stuffed in there now. thanksgiving week?

summer finale saturday :(

i needed oven mitts

so i made these yesterday and finished felting them this afternoon. no more burny holes with the batting coming out!

and last for today: tile answers needed!

i need ideas for what to do about this:

somehow, while i was storing my school boxes in the dining room, a piece of blue construction paper must have fallen out right under the skylight, and then gotten covered up by more boxes.  at any rate, it transfer printed to my saltillo/terra cotta tile floor:

that's a better isolated image of it.  i need to figure out what to use to get it off.  actually, it seems a bit fainter now than it did a few days ago when i first revealed it; since it's right under the skylight, will the same force that transferred it there eventually  make it disappear, you think?--you know how fugitive blue is, which is how it got there in the first place.  i don't want pristine tiles-- they're saltillo, after all and when i first put them in i even was hoping for the stray chicken footprint/goat hoof, but no-- and i usually relish whatever marks happen, but this purple blotch is just too...

i'm making tipper's pie!

i couldn't resist. the foolproof recipe she posted this morning looked so good i ran right out and bought what i suspect will be the end of this year's special sale blues.


what made it look so good is the tiny number of ready ingredieents called for in relation to such bounteous blueberries!
(i cut down a tad on the butter and sugar, added my own special ingredient to the sugar and egg white on top:)
o dear, look at all those blueberries i have left over. what a shame!

and the winner is:

me! mmmm, i'm eating tipper's pie!:)

this is how far i've gotten

it's all plain knitting from here up.

ty-dy

picked up the yarn for this tiered skirt while in b'town.  started it and ripped it out twice, then lost a needle for a week, then got the yarn bowl and brought it on home.  it's also going to take a very long time.  and i need to finish the skirt i'm already working on first!

teensy

it's bigger now, about 6" or so long.  it's going to take awhile.

ain't no cure for the summertime do's

well, i was in north carolina for four whole weeks, during which time i taught fiber arts, had two weeks to myself, and then took a watercolor class! it was glorious, and it even took me four more days to meander on home, mostly because i couldn't quite face it.

but face it i did, and eventually even opened up my new projects on ravelry, about which more in a subsequent post. but this post is to document what i've gotten done on the house so far, and what needs to be done (below, in bold) in the next two weeks, before i go back to school :(

today i really got a prodigious amount done, though. first, i dropped off five more boxes of books at the radio station, which i had culled from their temporary stoage in the study yesterday. then i reshelved the ones remaining (willy nilly, but organizing the things in things is another phase entirely!) and cleared away most of the detritus in the study. so we're back to this now:

turns out it will be a fine place to paint during the summer, when it's just too hot to paint here:

which is the painting space i'd carved out of the dining room a week ago, and is still my main repository for painting, but which turns into an oven on summer afternoon/evenings for the very same reason it's an ideal painting space in other seasons: the skylight.  The study, on the other hand, is darkened as old florida houses always were, and  has this:

a really lovely ceiling fan, one of only two in the house, as i replaced the one i'd put in the bedroom with a chandelier when i thought it had burned out, only to discover that it actually worked when the man took it down, but i had already bought the chandelier. still, it's a very pretty chandelier, as is the unwired one i tied to the fixture in the fiber studio, so i'm not really thinking about re-retrofitting either.

Anyway, the study will be good for taking my watercolors into to work on when the painting space becomes unbearable, and now just needs some more squaring away, and a good cleaning (dust 1/4 inch thick!)  I also ordered a shredder to arrive sometime next week, so i can turn the two decades worth of receipts presently in the study closet into excelsior to pack all the knick-nacks in the house away with, about which more later, so I think i will also clear out the study closet in this phase, to give me more storage room in this phase (even though most closets are definitely next phase!)

Once i got the study culled, i had some boxes of stuff to take back to school:

(the middle box, with no lid, is crammed with art supplies to be taken to school, while the back two are tapestry and heavy quilts that take up too much room; the front one contains knick-nacks to be packed up)

and a bunch of art stuff to go back into the studio:

This has got to happen right away (tomorrow) as the spiffy fiber studio now has got junk in it again! but! there is plenty of shelf space and empty closet space in there, so i just have to get it all put away before the whole thing disappears again!


The other thing that needs to happen is to pack away all the knitting projects currently piled on the hall tree

 as well as those hanging my my bedroom closet or in the chest of drawers, into the empty green tubs in the studio, so i can have room to unpack summer

and hang up the clothes i'll need to get ready for school again. Then i'll just need to figure out how to mask the tons of linens and such that i want but have no idea what to do with

and that will be the end of this phase.

Oh, and i don't want to spend more than two hours per day doing all this, so i can have my last two weeks of studio time, of course! So that's my to-do list.

where i was in july

pictures of the new home of my heart are here. i plan to spend every spare and possible week here forever!

memorial day progress

what was once five boxes of books flung into the study are now
three boxes of library donations

and two boxes of keepers.


and that's all for today.

tomorrow evening comes the 3-day weekend

what, oh what will i clear out next?  book boxes?

painting space?

what?

the chair

 brandon has posted a picture of the very chair that engendered my $199 celadon velvet wing chair circa 1988! (mine, vastly inferior, can still be seen down below in the new fiber studio.)

( i just love saying "new fiber studio!")

z.o.m.g! went into the new fiber studio to find a vk from 2006 and... there it was! right on the shelf! do you realize how huge this is??? :)

started a skirt.

thinking of pairing it with this jacket, from the same issue, which i made when it was new and then put away for a better time.  the pattern listing, inexplicably, seems to have disappeared completely from ravelry!

trying some habu.

slooow going, like knitting with excelsior.

et voila!

finally, finally, all done but the washing up! let me take you on a tour of my ancient demesne (but oh, the rest of the house!!!)

Location: my new 10 X 10 fiber studio!

GAH!

okay.  fell off wagon. fell off the whole train. climb back on, as jess says.  turn on Jazz Fest, get up, put on sweats, wade back into THE ROOM.

at least the mildew smell that was in there has gone.  sure, i can get that room squared away today, i think. can't i?  then i can think about the rest of the house.  some other day?  but not this day.

i'm thinking, around here? "day" = week...