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Lace in Progress

I've been working on the Branching Out scarf.  The lace is turning out fine now. I'm trying really hard to read the stitches so that I can get a grip on how the lace is progressing. I think it's part of learning to do lace, and this is my first lace project, but I'm not enjoying it all that much; it may be my last. I need to go search through my current projects and see if I can find my size 8 straights. I started this one on circulars so I could take it on the airplane last summer-- summer 2005 <gulp>-- but now they're curving around and driving me crazy. I'd rather work on it on straights, but it seems that my straight size 8s are tied up in other projects.

I also finished the first Sissy-Fuß sock. Pictures to follow. I've started the second sock, but I'm not past the toe yet. No doubt, I'll be doing that one again, and again, and again <sigh>. Somehow I've done the wraps wrong, and I think I may have to start over. But that's par for the course with this particular project. It just wouldn't be Sissy-Fuß if I didn't have to do it twice. Or three times. Or into eternity, up the hill, down the hill, up the hill. . .

In other knitting news, I'll be winding the pink Cascade 220 today to make Punkin’s christmas belted clause. Christmas felted clogs. Voice recognition software can have a mind of its own <g>. I thought that one was too funny to erase. Then I had to train it to recognize “erase” instead of “the race”. But the point is, I have three hanks of Cascade 220, 2 pink (9469) and 1 quatro (9440), to make my little darling new slippers for her gigantic feet. She's 9, and I'll be making women's size 6. Granted, they should be a little big, and size 6 is as small as the pattern goes, but still: Size 6. Yike!

My big project today is to get all my piano music and other things onto the brand-new shelves that are in the living room. I always mean to take a "before" picture, but it looks so horrible but I'm always reluctant to take the "before" picture, but then when I get done, I'm sad that I don't have a "before" picture so I can compare it to the "after." So today, I will try and take a "before" picture, although I reserve the right not to put it on the blog. But I'll know.

I'm off to tote books around the house. More later. Maybe.

A New Leaf

It's the first of the year (sort of), and I'm turning over a new leaf! It occurred to me that the most productive time I ever spent was in college. It was because I had SO much to do and never enough time that I scheduled myself pretty tightly. So, I'm scheduling myself today, by the half hour. I looked up the Spring Clean thing at OrganizedHome.com and printed out some forms. I'm hoping to make myself a little more accountable to myself and get stuff done.

Tomorrow (Tuesday) is back to work day, so I have my lessons included in my schedule, along with a little lunch/email break mid-day. I love doing the organizing, let's see if I can stick to it! I'll report back tomorrow night.

I have a knitting 2005 wrap up that I will try and get posted. I brought up some pictures today, and then crashed the computer by leaving photoshop open when I started SimCity. Oops.  I'll get that done and the photo album that goes with it tomorrow night. I hope.