One Crazy Fiber Lady

Like so many others out there, today was a snow day at the old CFL household.   We didn’t get a great deal of snow, probably only a couple of inches but the frozen mix made things really messy.  The kids’ school was closed, making the decision to stay home very easy.

It wasn’t a big day off for me though.  In between trying to entertain the monkeys, I worked.  The up side of being a programmer is that I can really work anywhere.  All I need is a computer and an internet connection (both readily available here) and I can be productive.  The down side is that I can work anywhere.  I usually work a longer day at home than at the office as I can start earlier, take shorter breaks and work later.

At least it wasn’t an empty house.  The folks were home and the painters were here for the last day doing Kat’s room.  It is a lovely toned down pink, Princess Pink IIRC with white trim.  Very pretty.  Certainly better than the pepto it was before. 

After dinner last night, we moved Alex’s furniture into his own room.  At bed time, the pair of them insisted that they were both going to sleep in Alex’s bed.  I really didn’t expect any differently, honestly.  After 30 minutes of giggling and playing, compounded with giddiness induced by paint fumes, I moved them out of there.  They both piled into Kat’s bed.  Another 30 minutes later and they are still awake when I hear Kat throwing Alex out of her bed.  I quietly escorted him back to his very own bed and they finally went to sleep an hour late.  Good thing there was that snow day today!  There was a brief attempt at trying to sleep in the same bed this evening which quickly ended as I enticed Kat back her to bed with the "your special pink room".  It worked. 

I managed to get a picture of my room today.  While everything isn’t quite in place yet, and I need window treatments of some kind, I figured a quick glimpse for you all was better than nothing:

BTW, the trunk at the end of my bed is chock full of yarn.  Big surprise I know.  This weekend I will be picking up my Lendrum Saxony wheel from the storage unit and it should be going in my room between that drop leaf table and the rocking chair.  I also need to pick up an area rug of some kind as I found that the rocker has scratched the floor already and it only moved in last night.  I love my room.  I love the sunny yellow walls.  It feels feminine without being girly.

It isn’t all pretty around here tonight though:

I finished knitting the last sleeve for the Humdrum sweater last night.  Tonight I sat down to assemble (not coincidentally my favorite part of knitting) and discovered this.  This would be the raglan sleeve seam.  Anyone else noticing a problem here?  Yeah.  They aren’t the same length.  Both sleeves are the same.  The front and back match as well.  This ain’t going together.  I’m not feeling the love anymore. 

Here’s Humdrum now:

Not to worry.  The yarn won’t be going to waste.  I’m pretty sure it will become the Top-Down-Raglan Cardi from Cosmicpluto.  Kim (a fellow Modern Yarn SnB’er and a brand new blogger that you should all go and give some hellos to!) made this sweater and it is just fab.  I know she used Noro, but while I’d love to, all my Noro is earmarked for a project and I just don’t want to buy new yarn when I have bundles of it that would work.  Heck, I’d get more use out of a cardi than a pullover anyday.  I’ll probably go swatch as soon as this post is done.

And now, some tea and knitting before bed.

Craft on!