Busy Tuesday!

My skepticism was uncalled for. The dryer did arrive and it works! Imagine that! This is the first dryer in years. Except for the solar one I had for awhile. Which was okay, unless it rained.... I digress. It's here, it works, and I've got the laundry almost caught up! I'll go back to doing smaller loads more often now instead of huge loads once a week.

Great progress on the last pair (I hope) of fulled slippers for Christmas. These are for the Eldest Grandson and look like they'll fit once I full them.

I even worked a little on the 2nd Work Sock for 2nd Son. If I keep on track, I'll have 99% of my Christmas knitting finished this week.

Most of yesterday was filled with cleaning out the laundry room to accommodate aforementioned dryer. Lots of stuff went into storage, the small freezer was moved out of the laundry room and things were moved and cleaned under. Once the dryer arrived, we realized we had to disconnect the washer and move it out of the laundry room, put the dryer in, connect it all up, then move the washer back in, and hook it up again. But it was all worth it to have the dryer!

One of the found items was my hoard of crayons. I love Crayola Crayons. I rarely (read never) use them, but I keep buying them. Anyway, I gave Youngest Granddaughter some of them and a pile of scrap envelopes (Eldest Granddaughter spent a day of licking and sealing them all!) She was in heaven!

March 2, 2007

First Dyeing of Sock Yarn

I had too much fun dyeing yesterday. I decided it was time to work on my sock yarns from KnitPicks. The purple is made from Wilton's, blue food coloring and vinegar simmered on the stove. It's still bleeding a little blue, but it'll eventually wash out (and stain my hands and needles while knitting, but hey, that's half the fun!). The Fiesta is Orange, Cherry, Watermelon Cherry, Lemonade, and Lemon Lime KA. I spent more time working on that skein than I have on any other hand painted yarns.

I didn't rewind the skein from Knitpicks...it's 100 gms and is probably about an 36 inch skein. If I can, today I'm going to rewind another skein into about a two yard skein. Haven't quite figured out how to do it yet, but hey, how hard can it be???? Have to go buy some more KA, too. I was really disappointed I didn't have any blue KA. I really wanted some blue in the Fiesta one....

Can't wait to finish up my Sockotta socks and start working on the Fiesta!

F called me yesterday to tell me there was an dryer on Freecycle. I called and low and behold, my son is going to pick it up for me tomorrow. It needs a new belt, but F's confident he can fix it for me. Life will be so much easier for us (me) now. Most of the dryers in our complex don't heat up, so we have load everything in the car and drive several blocks to a laudrymat to dry our clothes. Cost of time and $$. With a dryer I can keep up with the laundry and not be dependant on my daughter's days off to do it.

The plan for today is F is coming over to help me fix the back door where the dog has scratched a big hole. The hole now, however, goes all the way up to the white spot under the door knob. We are also going to price a screen door. Now, my back door is built backwards, so the screen door will go in the inside, as it should, but will open up into the kitchen. My solid back door opens out into the yard instead of into the house like a front door would..... But that's okay, cuz the screen door will never be open except to walk through it. And the amoung of natural light in the kitchen will dramatically increase.

The Sudafed has done it's wonders and I'm feeling about 98% better than two days ago! I still sound a little stuffy, and am coughing some (useful coughing that is loosening things up), but, hey, I can think and function again!