The first day of . . . .

Today marks my day 1 of 11 minutes on fiber related projects. There's been some knitting done, and a lot of reorganizing; I've just not been blogging it. My minutes today have been spent reading about a charity effort, and designing a bag for it. The plan is to knit/weave the bottom for strength, then mesh knit the sides, and have a drawstring inside a hem at the top. I may vertical weave on the sides for even more strength, but the deadline may prohibit that. We'll see how it goes.

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It's a start . . . .

Sample to get sizing for the fingerless glove fingers--too funny to say that! At least I knit something today!

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Whew, I Hope it's True

There's an old saying, "The more you do, the more you can do." Right now, I've so much going on, I'm really counting on that saying working for me!

I've started the Facebook album for Ken's dad. Very challenging to get some photos to look good online. The ones framed with glass fronts have a lot of glare (turning off the flash helped.) I didn't want to mess with taking things out of frames, especially when the photos look so good in their frames!

I haven't knit in the last few days, so I have nothing to relay, except my discovery of three more empty bins I can use to store the yarn stash and a book I'm resisting digging into, because I'll get nothing done:

Can't spend very long blogging today. We've a desk to move, and I'm to meet my son, Michael, online around noon.

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Hmmm, Yesterday's picture

Well, I decided to start today's blog while I wait for Ken to finish his business at VJ's (an auto parts dealer,) and lo and behold, a picture I sent to blogger the other day from the Droid, and could not find when I went to blog from the PC, has magically appeared--lol. I had saved it as a draft (well, it and two others,) and only one was there when I looked for the drafts. Magic I tell you, it's all magic!

Not so magical is my lack of knitting. No tube of little fingers for the "fingerless" gloves yet. Shouldn't they be called fingertipless? Well, naming aside, my machine knitting efforts yesterday were limited to buying 50 quart clear containers to sort the yarn stash into, (well, part of it--I'm pretty sure the three bins will not hold more than a fraction of it--however, they will get some of it out of bags and into view.) No more promises of results! I've decide they stress me, so I will just mention my plans and activity. That should help me focus.

I got a cute card to send the step-mom, who's in a nursing home these days. Her birthday is in two weeks. I plan a Facebook tribute for Ken's dad, if I can get to the old albums. His dad's birthday was June 11. It's looking like my birthday will be at Winfield (the airpark where we're building our hangar/apartment.) So, lots of fun this month!

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Grrr-I'll figure it out!

The blog to Facebook is still a wip (work in progress.) It appears I have to create the blog, reset the import in Facebook, then share it. How completely and totally not cool! I'm also working on the Android to blog thing. Keeps the old brain cells busy, busy. I saved a draft blog with a flower picture (actually, I thought I'd saved several, but only one is there now,) and if I have my copy/paste done right, you should see a picture of my portulaca!

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Never did get anything knit on Bulky yesterday, but enjoyed quality time with grandkids who say they're changing jobs and moving! I'm just over-the-top proud of them and very, very happy for them. They're not moving too far, so I'm cool with that too. Since the project for the Bulky is for granddaughter-in-law's sister, (and they are same size,) I did get to check on glove length, fit, design, which I think qualifies as time spent towards machine knitting!

Today's plan is to knit fingers for the gloves and start the back of the hand. I'm approaching it like the socks one knits the top, then toe, then bottom and back, so it's top of glove, separately make finger pieces (very short ones all knit as one long tube with ravel cord separating the pieces,) knit back of glove, attaching as I go (from the elbow down to fingers,) then graft on all the little fingers and it's done. A bit of a hybrid process, with the tops hand knit, and the rest on the machine.

The living room continues to look like we're the ones moving, so I shall have to discuss how to find the time to work on that, with all the other things we're doing!

Busy day

Whew, lots going on today. Went to breakfast with my baby (we each get half off military discount Mondays at Beau Rivage.) Hurried home to meet the dryer repair guy--oh, didn't I mention the dryer going kthunka, kthunka? Well, he found an unidentified part inside it (no, not inside where the clothes go--that would have been embarrassing!--it was in the guts of the thing.) No clue, just decided to press on with it and hope for the best. At least it's quiet and he'll fix it under warranty if it misbehaves again.

I moved my Brother Bulky to a spot where I can use it (yay!) Then I thought, you know, I know (beyond all shadows of doubt) that when I went to replace the very flat sponge bars (they hold the needles down,) that I had bought the wrong bar for it and had left it and the ribber bar setting on top in disgust. I purchase the materials to make the darn things, but life interfered with that. So, I'm looking at these things today, and I think, you know, I rarely use the end needles, I'll just use them anyway. Well, I put them in and darned it they didn't fit just right!? Guess I'll be knitting later today!!

So, even though it's not over yet, I'm calling this a good day. Eating homemade pizza and watermelon for lunch helped the day's rating, too!

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Two Steps Back

From the looks of the living room, one could assume I had made no progress on the office, however, such is not the case. I emptied two shelves in the knitting closet of the office, and they now hold the Studio 500 (I'm sure that's its weight--that is one seriously heavy machine!) and the Knitten Kitten. The plan is that the shelves will all have only equipment, and the stash will slowly emerge from its many cubbies and nooks and crannies (you get the idea,) and be put where it can be worked into my many ideas for gifts this year.

I would have gotten more done, but I spent a part of the day with an ice pack on an ankle bite from what I'm sure was the spider's relatives' hit man. I'm telling you, that spider had to have his own gang--he was that self-assured as he sauntered in the back door. The Dyson is still exiled to the porch with his remains. More later--actually, more tomorrow, because it won't be much time until later is tomorrow!

Testing Phone and Hopeful Return to the Blog

Today's effort is to blog from the phone. (This is the second attempt, so bear with me here.) A bit tedious, and I have forgotten many of my old tried and true computer tricks, like always save (or at least copy) as I go. I have to admit I don't know how to do those tricks on the Android, so, there's a learning curve going on at the same time.

For my return to blogging, I give credit to a fellow machine knitter's faithful 11 minutes/day in 2011. They say copying is a sincere form of flattery, so I hope it is taken that way! I do also hope it will provide me an outlet for the pent up energy and emotions of coping since Mom's passing at the end of April. I have been mostly in denial and staying almost frantically busy, which for a while is sustainable, but not so good long term. So, perhaps blogging will help me retain some of the little sanity I cling to--although the spider epidsode this morning may have caused an observer to doubt I have any left. I confess, it was two vaccums I went after it with--I blocked it's escape with the vaccuum in the steam mop, and captured/killed it with the Dyson.

The office/knitting room has been in chaos for way too long, and a large part of its disorder is lurking in the livingroom. (The previous strategy was move it temporarily to the livingroom--while Ken was out of town, since that annoys him terribly--so I could easily and rapidly sort it back into the office. The plan was thwarted by the need to rapidly head for Indiana a month and a half ago, and it is now a sad reminder of that trip, so the order needs restored badly!) That, my friends, is today's mission. So, now that I've provided Ken with his oatmeal with raisin and FiberOne blueberry muffins with walnuts and have the bread in the machine for later, it's time to go to it!

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