Well

I have a friend (okay, so I have several friends). She has depression and anxiety, and I wanted to do something to help her, if only in a little way. She is a crafter herself. So, it makes sense to me that she would understand the work that goes into a knitted gift. I gave her the option of a sweater or shawl, she told me it didn't really matter. I then choose a shawl because I figured it'd be faster than a sweater. But I mainly figured, she'd understand the time that went into this gift and maybe it could serve as a grounding point when she's going through a tough time.

My way of working on four projects in a day basically is Crazy Pants in the morning, Mom's socks and the rainbow carp while watching Netflix after work, and then one of my scrap blankets to get myself good and sleepy while I read before actually going to bed. I may switch out which scrap project from time to time. We'll see how I feel about it.

Bright Blessings!

A couple of things

1. The money problem resolved itself in a couple of ways. Mainly, I was using the wrong paychecks on which to base my usual pay. There's more, but I'm not fully comfortable talking about it.

2. I do want to be better at posting somewhat regularly. Maybe even getting some gumption on writing and selling some patterns. Extra money is rarely a bad thing.

3. Currently, I am knitting quite a bit. I've actually figured out a system so I can work or four projects a day. Maybe I canWiddle my project list down a bit.

Bright Blessings!

Mom's Present

I'm still trying to follow my outline in the planner that I showed earlier. So, now it's time to be working on my mom's birthday present. So, there's the start I've already gotten done. I was telling people at work that I had missed the start date by a couple of days, ending with a playful "oops." One of the ladies, even after hearing that I was planning socks and those typically take me 13 hours for a pair, told me I needed to get on it. I was perplexed. I wasn't worried about being short a few days. Heck, I had done the math and knew on that day that I would require 39 minutes of knitting on the socks a day to finish on time, this is a completely reasonable amount of time to work on that. I also told my coworker this, and she was unmoved. I don't get it. I had done all the work I could to see if I had really done a boo boo, I hadn't. So, I'm clearly not worried, why are you being so worried about it? Again, I don't get it.

Bright Blessings!

I'm Horrible

I'm again looking over my budget and just feeling like I'm not really making all that much money, or at least not all that much after all my expenses. I'm going to try again to keep this blog going, as well as working harder on getting patterns written up and selling them.

It's always at these times that I wish that we had a dungeon or the like that if one needed a bit extra money, one could just go and gather money or what not, fight things, and get money when you left. I don't know how it'd work, but it might be nice.

Bright Blessings!

Hello

I seemed to have worked out the kink in my shoulder that would cause it to knot up while knitting. At least Monday night while I knit with my friend I didn't feel my shoulder knotting up. I took the above hat band with me. I know I worked on the purple to the yellow at the least, maybe some of the blue. It's always nice to be able to sit around and talk with a friend who understands crafty stuff. She liked watching the colors change (except for the weird brown between the purple and yellow, until it turned to gold, then it was alright again). I can't say I'm overly impressed with the yarn (they're both the same yarn), it's a single ply and I don't think it's all that tightly spun. Which means that I have to watch myself or it's really easy to split the yarn. Otherwise, I do like how it's turning out, though.

Bright Blessings!

Well

I need to take care of myself. Despite really wanting that top done in time to wear it for my birthday, I think I really need to take a week or so off of knitting. I've noticed a knot on my right shoulder blade (there's one on the left too, but I notice the right one more) and I think it's related to my knitting somehow. So, yeah, I'm going to take at least a week off of knitting and see how I feel. My dad has lots of massage devices laying around and has given me permission to use them as liberally as I need to. So, I'll probably be trying to loosen up my shoulders a bit each night.

Bright Blessings!

Newish Things

If you've been with me for a while, or just flipped back through the archives you may notice that I used to have little bags that I carried around my sock projects in. I would clip them onto my belt loop and run around with knitting on my hip, or hook it onto my purse and be happy with it there. I have since ripped out the little bit that the bags hung by (mostly by shutting the drawstring in my car door and walking off). I've been missing those bags and can't seem to find them or a good replacement for them. I had taken a seam ripper to one and showed it to Mom, we just haven't done anything about making more.

So, I'm kinda trying to make one, or at least something similar. That was mostly done during Christmas Eve. Mom and I sat for a while and crocheted together.

Bright Blessings!