Labor Day

Was in fact a labor day for me. 'Course with my new business in a way every day's a holiday for me so working on a holiday seems to make sense. Since I pet sit for people, of course I would work on the holidays. That's when people need pet sitting. But it's all good.

I'm working on another Space Invader sweater. I have a feeling that I'll be able to post these on Etsy through the end of the year and still find buyers. So I ordered a bunch more black yarn. I'll need that for another sweater idea that I have so it'll all be used one way or another. Black yarn usually is.

I need to take a break from the Space Invaders and work on my Panda Bear design. He's right there, almost done and ready to be fabricated. Just have to take a day and get all that finalized. This one worked out really well also. Once I have a good picture I'll get it posted.

In the meantime I'm almost done with the shawl.
When the momster had surgery a few years back and one of the sisters was in an awful car accident I made them Prayer Shawls to use after they got out of the hospital since it was in the middle of winter. Since then I put a shawl in the rotation every now and again. I really need to do another blanket for Project Linus. I have two blankets ready to go and had decided last year that every 3rd or 4th project would be for charity. That was before I was liberated from my corporate job and started re-ordering my priorities. Can't let it go though. I had decided on that commitment and I should uphold it or formally release it and I'm not ready to release it yet. So I guess my next project is a charity blanket.

Oh, and I just picked up what looks like a swell reference book 1000 Great Knitting Motifs by Louise Roberts. I've been slowly building my library of motifs to knit and this has a lot of cool examples in it. Has a lot of really bad color combos also but that's a great visual for me to avoid them. I'm going to sit down and go through it page by page but right now it looks fun. I'll write a more complete review after I've really looked at it.

Good to know what the line-up should be. Space Invaders, shawl, book review, panda bear, charity blanket, polar bear...by the time I get all those done I'll have a whole other list of ideas to work on.

And the charity blankets really help to work down my stash items. So it's a win-win situation. I haven't quite gotten to the point where I can release the yarn that comes into my home to the Destash site or a garage sale. My other clutter is clearing out nicely but not the yarn or the books. Still working on those. And the Destash site is a dangerous place for me to be roaming around in. And you know exactly what I mean by that.

I'd forget my head if it wasn't fastened on....

So I go out to Target to get this and that and then something else, walked out spending $ 20.00 and still didn't get camera batteries. Which was a high priority item on my list. So, I can't post the pictures of the ghostie sweater or a new shawl that I'm working on until I get the batteries.

I'm almost done with the shawl already (thanks to the new DVD Dresden Files">that I got). One of the women in my Stitch n Bitch group just growls when she sees Jen or myself talking, reading or talking about watching TV while we work. We keep telling her she'll get there, she keeps telling us, she won't. And since it's her belief system, she won't.

And I don't care what the network thinks, I liked 'The Dresden Files'. Yes, it's been cancelled. I started out reading the books Dresden Files">cause I'm a fan of the mystery genre and someone recommended them to me on that basis. It's like Mickey Spillane with magic thrown in the mix. The investigator usually manages to get the snot kicked out of him at some point in the story but the characters and detail of the plot line are entertaining enough that you can get over the formula detective plot. Now the TV show is nowhere near the stories in the books but that makes them even more entertaining. It's interesting to see how they've changed the story to conform to the media that they're using. I was lucky enough to see Jim Butcher at the Oread Bookstore in Lawrence, KS and he thought it was great. The book sales were going well and the paychecks he was getting from the TV show, as he put it, paid for his families health insurance bills for a year. Not a bad deal for him considering he's an independent contractor being a writer.