Miscellaneous: July 2004 Archives

Just want to wish everyone a good weekend. My business trip went well, and I even got some time to knit on the airplane, but I just didn't have enough time to put a post together. I'm going to be offline again Monday and Tuesday of next week but will be back on my regular schedule after that as I have no travel plans at all for August -- except perhaps a trip to visit my parents in Ann Arbor and take a quick trip up to Lansing to visit the new ThreadBear location.

While I work away on my Chai top (I decided to opt for a crochet edging due to issues of both yarn sufficiency and some concern that gravity might not play nicely with this yarn and the extra weight at the hemline), I thought I would show off the other accomplishment of my weekend: cleaning up my yarn room.

How could I possibly consider such a relatively simple thing to be an accomplishment.... well, just feast your eyes on the before pictures:

Southwest Corner

Northwest Corner

Holey moley there was yarn, clutter and general disorganization everywhere. Even a happy slob like me couldn't quite cope with the chaos anymore. An hour or so later, I could actually work in the room again! Clicking on the pictures will give you the shots of the room after I was done (this little demonstration really calls for rollovers, but it's late and I'm not feeling like searching the internet for the code to do it).

Now I can actually use my blocking board again, and admire all that fun French yarn. Good inspriation for the next project while I'm finishing up the Chai top.

P.S. My new Interweave Knits arrived today. I'm not overwhelmed with excitement (at least not yet), but I did like the vertically striped scarf done with Schaefer Yarns Anne (a hand dyed sock weight yarn). I have this lovely skein of Anne that is sitting in my closet waiting for its destiny (it just seems too nice for socks) and I think it would be fun to learn how to make those vertical stripes happen