Phew! It's good to be home. I went to Florida with my adult kids for my mother's 80th birthday surprise party (especially a surprise because it was several weeks early), but Mother Nature decided we needed to remember her too, so she made sure I couldn't get home when I intended to. It took a lot of scrambling to make alternate plans, but eventually I got back to beautiful snowy NJ.
I have more unfinished projects hanging around than I realized. I keep coming across project bags with half of a hat or 1/3 of a cowl or half a mitten. I took two projects along with me on the trip, with one packed in my son's carry-on because I was too cheap to pay $70 round trip for a carry-on for myself. I started out with the Almond Cowl, which seems to be the exact right size to actually be a better hat than a cowl.
On Monday, when I thought I'd be flying home and didn't have the DPNs to finish the cowl as a hat, I packed it in my son's bag and took out the other project. This is also a cowl, white wool for the background and multi-color Liberty Wool for the faux Fair Isle. I didn't get too far - I wanted to spend more time with family and focus on them, and by the time I was headed home I was too mentally exhausted to juggle it on the plane, so it has a way to go.
In the past, these patterns from the page-a-day calendar tend to have mistakes, but so far so good.
My favorite project this year is the
Demelza blanket. I have most of the pieces generated except for the corner squares, and then I have to crochet them all together and weave in a million ends.
I might weave in the ends but not cut them off until I send it through the washer, because I have found that sometimes the ends work loose by a stitch or two.
Time to get to cleaning my house, sigh. The yarn calls me, but alas, hygiene is also necessary.
