I know, I missed it by a day or so, but I like acknowledging that the shortest day has come and gone. There are many, many holidays around this time of year, but I like the solstice best. I hope you are enjoying/have enjoyed/will enjoy your choice of holidays, and that whatever else goes on you find some time to rest and have some peace with people you love. And some yarn in your hands.
We've had the last Yarnworks of the year, which we celebrated with cookies (thanks Jean!) and sparkling juice (thanks Andree!) and yarn, of course. Looking forward to 2016! I have been unusually amply rewarded for my efforts in the yarn department this year, so I am looking for some way to share that. I ordered 4 magazines, 2 for knitting and 2 for crochet to share with the group (which for some reason earned me a copy of Kung Fu Panda from Amazon, although I have no idea why they think this is a good idea). Some will go to buy yarn for future projects, but being frugal is ingrained by now, so I still shop the sales. Maybe I'll invest in more needles of all sizes to make sure we have whatever is needed. But I'll check eBay before paying full price...
Do you like untangling yarn? Probably not, but I actually do, and apparently there is a whole community of people who like it so much they will do it for others. Check out this article. There is a group on Ravelry called Knot a Problem who specialize and glory in untangling yarn.
Making cookies at this time of year seems to be mandatory, but since I have been avoiding sugar to keep my heartburn under control, I had put it off. Finally I made an old recipe for soft orange cookies with orange cream cheese icing, using a commercial gluten-free flour mix. So I ended up with puffy, biscuity cookies instead of flat, cakey cookies, but they still work to convey the icing to my mouth. I will suffer, but once a year I'll break my sugar fast. And spritz cookies! Sugar, egg yolks, butter, vanilla, and brown rice flour, squashed through a cookie press. But that leaves egg whites, you say. Yes, and chocolate meringue cookies need egg whites! So forgive me stomach and esophagus, I have sinned, but I'll stop soon. As soon as all of the orange cream cheese icing is gone.
At the other end of the food spectrum, the organic farm from my CSA is selling the excess produce that this warm weather has allowed them to grow, so I'll balance the cookies with some kale and salad greens.
I have finished all of my Christmas gift knitting and crocheting, so now I have choices. I'm working on the Hue Shift afghan, a boring ribbed hat for myself in alpaca, and I could sew together the finished summer sweater and put on the crocheted edging. But that seems too self-focused. I do have some Star Wars figures that were requested, but that won't take long. So I started going through the projects I looked at but didn't make for this year. I made a list of what yarn each needed, then went to the Yarn.com year-end blowout sale and started ordering. Now I'm looking forward to that bag, and have a list to start on. That's more like it!
I hear cookies calling me, but I'm ignoring them. It's a fast day until dinner (homemade spaghetti sauce with sausage and chicken). Take that, sugar.
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