A bit of news

Some of you may have noticed a little countdown bar in the right column that appeared fairly recently. It's counting down my self-inflicted yarn diet. Being overyarned happens to most of us knitters and crocheters every now and then and something drastic must be done before it gets too out of control. Hahaha, 'too'.

So yeah, the first step is admitting that there is somewhat of an imbalance in terms of the amount of yarn purchased compared to the amount of yarn used. Net result: I OWN TOO MUCH YARN! If we consider just the yarn which has a specific project allocation, we're talking 25+ projects' worth already. Then add to that the mountain of yarn that has no destiny yet! You get the point.

At first I toyed with a three-month yarn fast, but dismissed that as being half-hearted and weak (come on! three months wouldn't even make a dent in the stash). Three months turned into six months, which in turn became the rest of the year. Sob!

At least now I can get some of the stuff in my queue done without being distracted by new yarn purchases.

And now for something a little sunnier: the weather here has been FABULOUS for the past few days! I actually wore little slip-on shoes outside yesterday! Can you believe it?!?! The temperature has been around 15 degrees for a few days and has even reached as high as 17.5. When I listen to myself, I sound like a loon - where I come from, anything under +20 is considered chilly and here I am raving about having 15 degrees for a couple of days! Well, you know, after the stupidly long winter, we'll grab onto even the faintest glimmer of sunshine and warmth. This heat wave isn't going to last though; the weather forecast is predicting four degrees for early next week. Sigh.

Here's what I've been intermittently working on for the last couple of weeks:



Classic Granny Square Blanket. It will continue to grow as long as the yarn holds out (and believe me, there's tonnes of it). I've been enjoying working on these squares and coming up with different techniques for weaving in the yarn ends as I go along, leaving just the very last end that needs to be woven in manually. It's really relaxing to work on these. It gives me a break from the Frost Flowers and Leaves, which is almost almost almost done! I started the border a few days ago. Man, that road ahead is still long, but I'm so close to the end! I can't wait to see how it looks off of the needles.

I've also been busy making some more little knitting and crochet videos, which can be viewed on my youtube channel. More stuff to chat about, but for now it's sauna time. :-)