Yarn Along

As a way to motivate myself to read and knit more I am going to start joining Ginny Sheller every Wednesday for knitting and reading.  My goal is to finish a book every 2 weeks but also try to complete at least one project a week.  As most knitters, quilters, crocheters, etc have many UFO's so do I.  What is crazy is many of them have less than 2 hours of work to complete the project.  What's up with that?

This week I am reading A Year on Ladybug Farm.  Bought it for $.50 at Goodwill.  For knitting I am making the ever popular ZickZack Scarf by Christy Kamm.  It is a fun knit, taking a bit longer than I expected but still fun and easy to do.  I am using Lang Mille Colori Baby yarn in colorway 06 and 16.  I almost wish I would have a little more contrast but it is working out for the most part how I wanted.

This next Christmas hopefully will be having a fully homemade Christmas.  The idea sounds probably better than the reality but hopefully if I get some things going now it an be reality.

Down with Christmas

Now I truly don't mean Christmas is a downer, it is more I am taking down Christmas.  The house always looks so bare, colorless, uneventful after the decorations are all put away.  Honestly I was ready for it to come down the day after Christmas.  Once it is over, packages are unwrapped, I'm ready to be done.

Will work a while today, finish putting away boxes, get my Grandson for the rest of the weekend, and just get ready for the new year, hibernate for the day, maybe read, maybe knit, maybe work.  I haven't decided.

The snow could be gone too but we have months left of winter.  It is supposed to get really cold again this week with highs of -2 on Thursday. 

Saturdays are home days, time to catch up, laundry, cooking, etc.  We made lefse today for the first time, that was kind of fun.