Tag: travel

There’s no place like home

 …especially if your husband has been sick and hasn’t cleaned anything in the five weeks you were gone.  *Sigh*  I know better than to expect the place to be nice when I get home but some part of me still is disappointed when I walk into a dump 🙁

I survived the trip to DC, which included a visit to the Springwater Fiber Workshop (which was cleaned out due to their almost-went-out-of-business sale so nothing really to see) and the very lovely Knit Happens shop in Alexandria where I bought three skeins of Pima cotton from Peru. Not organic, alas, and I *know* that it is very important to buy organic cotton as 50% of the world’s pesticide use is in the cotton industry, but it was beautifully handpainted from a small company so I couldn’t resist.

So I’m home, but my yarn stash is in transit as I didn’t have enough luggage space. All I could cram in was two skeins for the scarf for my husband and the yarn that has now become the finished scarf for my mom. I need to try to take pictures but I need to be awake in daylight for that to happen. Right now I am sleeping 15 hrs a day 🙁

I do get to gloat a little as both husband and friend made noises about wanting the very first hat that I made of out Red Heart Light & Lofty. I think I have enough yarn left to make a second hat so both shall be appeased. It’s nice to make things that other people like, I was worried about stuff being really boring or screaming newbie but I find with the looms it’s a lot harder to screw up than with needles! Dropped stitches are more noticeable and easier to fix.

So much to write about, I got five looming books from Amazon for a total of six (out of I think 8 that exist), so I shall be writing up about them soon. Unfortunately my hands hurt too much for me to type any more today, but I really plan to blog more frequently now that I am home. If having my computer in the shop doesn’t turn into too much of a nightmare, that is! But hopefully that will all get fixed while I am away for the holidays and thus will be as painless as it can be. In the meantime though, the hands say it it time to stop and I must obey…

Which way did it go?

Wow, time escaped me without getting a post in edgewise. I guess that’s why I never told anyone about this blog before 😉  I have started several posts but none were finished.  I thought about just posting them and backdating to when I started, but I decided to be honest instead.  The posts will appear in the order I *finish* writing them.

What happened?  Well, the Knitting & Stitching show was fantastic, despite the absence of knitting looms.  So great that I spent all day there and it triggered a flare that left me stuck in bed for two weeks.  I revived the day before my brother in law arrived and frantically cleaned.  Then he was with us for over a week (which turned out to be a total disaster and I am very angry at him now), and the day after he left I flew to America to spend some time with my parents.  While here I’ve been in a different state every week and when not sightseeing I’ve been collapsing to rest.

This brings us to today 🙂  I’m in the middle of the only week of my trip where we are just staying home (my parents’ house) and I am frantically trying to get all of my holiday presents and cards made before we leave for D.C. on Sunday.  Not sure it is going to happen!  At least my knitting (I did finally get looms and I love them!!!) can come with me in the car.

As I spend the next few days crafting I am going to try to catch up on my posts, photograph the many things I have done in the past few weeks and set up a Flickr account to go with this blog.  Meanwhile I shall finish the posts I have already started, but please bear with me as the order may be somewhat random just based on what I feel like writing.

Off we go!