One Crazy Fiber Lady

I know I posted already today, but I stumbled on this quiz and had to do it.  Is this really me?

You Are Bert

Extremely serious and a little eccentric, people find you loveable – even if you don’t love them! You are usually feeling: Logical – you rarely let your emotions rule you You are famous for: Being smart, a total neat freak, and maybe just a little evil How you live your life: With passion, even if your odd passions (like bottle caps and pigeons) are baffling to others

This past Saturday was the big day.  In an exhausting day of schlepping furniture, books, yarn and other necessities of daily life, I moved down the hall to the former master bedroom. 

A little odd if I might say so, though it was different enough with my own furniture and carpet-less floor that I wasn’t totally creeped out being in my parents’ room   The painters started yesterday converting the two tone brown walls into sunny yellow and white for me.  The second coat goes on today, which should bring an end to work in my new room.  Tomorrow, what will be Kat’s room gets a new coat to tone down the pepto-pink (all four walls, ceiling and trim in the same shade!) to something that shouldn’t make the kid sick living there.  There’s pink and then there’s PINK.   Alex’s room is being finished today too.  He got my parents’ old beige carpeting that I ripped in favor of the oak instead of the rose carpet.   Anyway, the end is definitely in sight and I believe this week marks the end of this whole process, which, other than Sara’s foot (fully healed) and her coat (growing back) was pretty much painless.

Needless to say that in the hub-bub that was this weekend, knitting was very much minimal.  That doesn’t mean that there was no knitting.  I still have the train and lunch to contend with.  I finished off the first of the Decadence socks last night during 24.

(Yes, that is my newly yellow wall with the white chair rail, and my Ikea dresser).  I’m using the lace pattern from Hedera on this sock.  I love it.  Kristen at Modern Yarn was knitting a pair of Hedera’s in Lorna’s or maybe Claudia Handpaint (short term memory is rather weak) this past Thursday at the SnB.  It really is a cute pattern and she thought it would look stunning in the solid yarn.  She’s absolutely right.  I cast on for the second sock immediately after finishing this one.  I have a lot of sock yarn to burn through

I might have mentioned a little sock yarn shopping last week.  I was a bit bummed by events at work and what does a girl do when she gets down?  The tough go shopping!  The two skeins at the bottom are Lornas Laces Shepherd Sock in Mineshaft (bottom)and I think Gold Hill.  They were in trade for the second skeins of the Black Purl and the Jeans.  Having discovered I only need one skein, MY was excellent enough to let me swap the second skeins for alternate colorways. 

The others, from left to right are, STR Lightweight in Lucy (which not so coincidentally is the same colors as my late and beloved Baron ), a lovely hand dyed merino sock yarn from fibersnthreads, Chocolate Pink Cherry from Fearless Fibers, and Neopolitan from Yarn Pirate.  Why yes, I spent some time on Etsy.  Nice.  Must knit faster!

Tomorrow is the hop-a-thon at the twins’ school (provided they aren’t snowed out!).  I want to thank everyone for their kind donations.  If anyone was thinking of donating and hadn’t, today is the last day I can take it.  I need to write a check out to send to school with them tomorrow.  As a reminder (and I don’t think I made this very clear in the initial posts), it is a flat donation.  Not a per hop pledge.  No way would I ask that!  Two hyper 3 year olds?  Who could count that! 

Time to go off and code something.

Craft on!