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Marginal
Notes:
Weather: RAIN!!!!
Finally rain! We have been over 2" short of our annual
rainfall.
Current
projects:
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Current Projects:
Vest or
sweater for
Steve out of some gray/tan handspun. If he is a good boy and quits
smoking, I'll add sleeves to it and make a sweater.
Socks for
me.
Various
hats, scarves and mittens. I want to have some on hand to sell at the CT
Sheep Show in the Spring.
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Projects
on hold. I'm bored with these!:
A lace
scarf out of hand painted Merino. This is a test project for the
business. I might start to sell this yarn. Haven't finished
it. Not crazy about the colors. Maybe I'll make it into socks
instead.
Charcoal
gray alpaca sweater. I have misplaced the instructions. Should be
interesting to finish it without them.
No
quilts in progress
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It's raining and it's cool outside. I have been waiting for this weather
for what seems like months. The air is clean and it's easy to breathe
again.
For girls only: My doctor has
decided that I need to have a hysterectomy. Yes, I am going to be
spayed. I've been having a lot of bleeding issues to the extent that I
am anemic. And in his words, I am a lifelong candidate for ovarian and
uterine cancer because of the type of breast cancer I have had. The
surgery will be the 1st or 2nd week of November. The date isn't definite
with the hospital yet. I will be out of work for 4-6 weeks.
I was concerned about missing work.
Mainly because of money. But I checked with our HR dept and they will
pay me up to 8 weeks at full pay for STD! I haven't been employed as a
full time employee for a year yet-not until the middle of November. But
the company counts the time that I worked as a temp into my years of
service. That gives me almost 3 years of service then.
Work for me has been good, just extremely
busy. So busy to the point that I have told management that I need to
unload part of what I am doing and give it to the unit that it really belongs
in. I'm doing my real job, the one that I get paid to do AND I have
another account management function that is sucking up the hours during the
day. There isn't enough time to continue to do both jobs. The
account management function needs to go to, well, the account manager
unit. Now that I am going to be out on STD, they recognize that some
changes need to be done.
We have a new supervisor. She is from
our division but a different department upstairs. So, we all already
knew her. She is in her 30's, smart as a whip. Quick and really,
really efficient. She has already begun holding weekly meetings and has
scheduled 1 on 1 meetings with all of us and she isn't scheduled to move to
our area until 9/24! I think she will be a truly positive force in
the department. I just hope she doesn't get burnt out.
Steve will be home from work on vacation
next week. He had yesterday off and he slept all day. ALL DAY and
went to bed at 7:30 last night. He has been getting a lot of calls for
work at night and has worked many hours of overtime in the past few
weeks. He is exhausted. Unfortunately, he is STILL SMOKING.
I haven't been doing much with the
business. I really must get out there and get the inventory done.
Except that I need help to do it and Steve has been so tired lately. He
would have more energy if he quit those damn cigarettes. We need to get
the site back up and running. Weather is cooler and people will be knitting
again.
Since the weather is so cool, I plan on
making a pot of chili today. I bought a loaf of fresh Italian bread last
night and I might drive* over to the farm on the next road to see if they
still have corn. I need to make a trip to the feed store as usual and
stop up in town at the pharmacy and post office. Big weekend plans will
be brushing bunnies.
*even though the farm is just on the next
road, there are no side streets so to get there it's about 3 miles. That
is why I am driving and not walking.
Recently
completed projects-most recent first:
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| Simple
blue watch cap. My doctor requested it.
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Earth or
Autumn color socks for me
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Purple
socks for Kathy
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| A
Shetland lace scarf out of baby alpaca spun on Prudence my antique
Shaker wheel.
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Mittens
for a woman in my unit made out of bits and pieces of yarn from the stash
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Mittens
for my supervisor out of some Noro I had in the stash.
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| Mittens
for Ryanne to match the Shetland lace scarf out of the softest Merino
wool
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Shetland
Lace scarf out of pink angora. I need to block it as it seems to
have grown when I washed it. It's now about 8' long! I
gave this to Ryanne's mother. She loves it.
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A blue
and multicolored handspun, multidirectional scarf. I gave this
to Ryanne's father as a combo Christmas & birthday present.
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| Finished
a hat out of multicolored handspun from roving I purchased at
Rhinebeck last year. It's pretty shades of blues and
greens. I made it for the Tamarra the temp that left work and
now is in school in NH. I need to make her some mittens too and
I will mail them to her.
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Finished
a Shetland lace scarf in greens & orange hand painted Merino from
the NH Sheep show. It's for Ryanne for Christmas
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Started
and finished a quick multi-directional scarf out of the same green
homespun for the other temp at work (Tamarra) who was leaving. She's going
to school in NH so she'll need it.
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| Knit
another hat for Ryanne. This one larger and out of green
homespun. I added a few stripes of orange to make it the colors
of the Irish flag. She's very Irish.
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A blue
hat with pink embroidered flowers and beads. I gave it to
another girl at work for her toddler daughter.
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Little
basket weave socks for a toddler. I gave the to a girl at work
for her 18 month old daughter.
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| A hat for Ryanne out of some
blue Merino. I think it's too small though.
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A homespun wool scarf in Autumn
colors using a Shetland lace pattern. It's my first attempt at
lace and I'm enjoying it.
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Socks. Two
pairs. One for me and I gave the other to Ryanne.
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| Made a quick scarf to wear
to work out of the recycled silk I purchased on vacation.
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Ryanne has the green
sweater. I haven't seen it or her for a while. I have no idea what
stage it is at. She was lengthening the sleeves (I have very short arms)
and adding volume to the neck.
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Socks. Blue &
green variegated yarn. I gave them to Ryanne
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| Multidirectional Diagonal
scarf out of brown homespun wool and alpaca. I gave it to Jack the
Therapist. He didn't have a scarf.
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Finished
the never ending cardigan turned vest! The buttons are sewn on, I just
have to make button holes and block it.
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Pair of mittens for a
child. They are knit out of Blue Wool-Ease from Lion Brand so
they will be washable. I gave them to Chef Dave at work for his little
boy Michael.
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| A multidirectional diagonal
scarf for Dennis out of blue homespun wool.
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A scarf for the
scarf swap at our spinning guild made out of a mohair blend I purchased at
Rhinebeck and some blue homespun wool.
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Mittens for the girl who
lives down the street made out of brown alpaca and a wool in autumnal colors.
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| Another hat for my chiropractor's
baby out of multicolored acrylic.. |
Blue
mittens to match the scarf for Ryanne
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A simple gray
winter hat. It's from the Border Leicester fleece that I bought last year.
It's for LP for Christmas. |
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turquoise blue wool and silk blend scarf for Ryanne.
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Socks
out of hand painted wool in lovely muted, "desert" colors. I inadvertently
washed them and the wool felted. I now have slipper socks.
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A
grass green colored angora & alpaca simple raglan sweater
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pink hat for my chiropractor's baby.
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A
cowl from a blend of Cotswold wool and alpaca.
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A
glittery scarf with yarn purchased from Threadbear.
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| Hat
for Dennis of homespun charcoal gray Corridale wool.
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An ugly brown
sweater for Dennis out of a mix of homespun wools. He loves it
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Multicolored
socks for me.
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