here's where i stalled

we've a three-day weekend this week and i'm hoping to get the stuff put away in the unseen accordian-doored closet...and the rest of the green tubs switched out in a second stack on the other side of the window that is jus a glow here, to match the ones in the corner over there.

only an inch

an inch or so left to go on the lilac cuff and i'm over it.

just bought some habu gima from somebody's stash and am planning a gauze cotton tee with it (adding sleeves.)

put up my next four projects in my planned tab, refined my chemise interpretation some.

oh, i'm humming along!  gotta get that inch done, though, and in the eucalan bath...

more tubs

spring break is indeed over and i have to get ready to go back to work monday.  took another load (mostly old throw pillows and such) to goodwill today, and decided to load up the books back into the study (from whence i removed them a couple of years ago or so) in boxes, until i can figure out what i want to do with them. 

that will be plan c, and i'm not thinking about plan c until i finish plan b.

plan b will commence once i'm back at work, so i will do it gradually, cleaning and sorting boxes of things here or there and tossing/donating two boxes (each) a week--trash gets picked up again tomorrow.  that will get the stuff i've been working on this week finished up.

i also bought another half dozen lime green tubs today, and am storing all the stash in them, stacked five high, in the corners of the studio, which seems to be working out well.  i need to finish that up, and at least the temporary organizing of painting area and carpets, etc. in the sterlite tubs they'll replace--all tomorrow.

and that will have been spring break.  back to teaching on monday.  (i loaded up the car with school stuff to take back there, too.) never did make it down to the new baubles to pick up my shawls, although i tried.  in actual knitting (not studio) news, i still haven't finished the lilac sleeve, either, but i cast on for the chemise anyway...

but just now i need a bath.

tubs

running errands at last this morning, i discovered that HomeD has 18 gallon storage totes in lime green on for $3.44 each.  i bought four, since i already have four purple ones.  After sealing up their ventilation holes with elmer's so i can safely store stash in them, i think I'll go back and get four more, as that will give me a color coordinated stash wall and free up some more clear sterlite tubs to store fabric and tapestry pieces in.  somewhere.  probably in the studio closet,  which is shallow and shelf-lined, and which i cleared out yesterday.  i should do another run to goodwill with a bunch of throw pillows and etc. that i don't want on the way.  that will be accomplishment enough for today, don't you think?

tried to go by baubles, too (the new one) to pick up my cashmere shawls, but couldn't find it!  i did get flicker bulbs, though, after many months on the to do list--and s-hooks for the stained glass pieces!

planned chemise

who plans chemises?  chemeeses?  anyway, i've been wanting to do something with the wonderful anna gilmour's chemise plan, which she sent me a year ago, and have only now found a fabric i want to make it of, i think.  i'm enamored of marnie maclean's pas de valse and i'm just about done with my own version in (discontinued) rowanspun 4ply, of which i bought up just about as much as i could find before it went pffft.
when i felt the fabric that came out of this seamless pattern on us5 needles for me, i thought it might make a very nice chemise, and drew up a plan to make one in the color holly.  now all i hafta do before casting on is finish that last sleeve on the lilac...

small progressions made

1st load to goodwill; half-a-decade's new york reiews in the newly emptied dumper; the 6' closet i loaded up in the studio room when i moved in 20 years ago now 3/4 emptied. the big questions: 1)what to do with all the linens, hand-crocheted edgings and other ephemera that i want to keep, as well as all the antique persian carpet squares, and etc. how to store them, and where? 2) how do i want to set up my etsy store?


but i have bathed, and am sipping that lovely wine karen and rose gave me on new year's day, with strawberries floated in it,  and i can walk again, none of which are small things.  sufficient unto the day.  now to look up the best antique methods of mildew abatement.  i'm thinking vinegar.

massive spring studio clean

*1. put stuff from the room in piles. 2. put piles in their eventual vicinities. **3. cull piles. 4. toss. 5. pull out more stuff ***. 6. repeat from *until studio is studio. 7. switch to new vicinity and repeat from ** to *** until (vicinity) is (vicinity), then 7. ad nauseam. 8. decide to modify schedule better to coordinate with semi-weekly trash collection. 9. bathe.

at this rate i will not get into the studio during spring break, i fear, but it must be done.  plus it will give me time for something else without going on strike as i have been doing.  and it will not cripple me, unless i have done so already. and just maybe i will get something accomplished on it  before the weather makes continuing with it completely unbearable.  and i will flap my arms and fly to the moon.

well!

four years.  five since i started back knitting, it says over there under "whence defarge."  who knew?  i still haven't knit up the black water abbey yarn i bought to resume, and have lost touch with the woman who recommended it to me, and even let die the knitting blog once i started teaching art, it seems, first at the rec dept and then in the school district, where i'm in my, yes, fourth year, currently in the midst of spring break.  but it sure did take me somewhere after all, didn't it?

i liked the knitting chair picture yesterday.  i suspect a knitting blog is doa, and redundandant post-ravelry, but let's do a makeover here and see what comes of it, eh?

jo took a picture of the medication cozy

 

sam's first christmas

 

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for the knitter who kints everything...

new innards

Knitting joke

the new baby

i happened upon this in John's store and he said it had just arrived yesterday, complete with the hank of whatever it is (shrunken Paris Hilton?) looks like i'll be learning to spin.

need some FO pics here!

actually, i have quite a few, but i never get around to photographing them. naughty, naughty knitblogger...

pod pod

mit pod

mit pod et phone

remember the beginning?

here's the cast on...

finished!