I am very close to done with Cozy. A few more repeats of the pattern - until it is "long enough" (it is already longer than what the pattern calls for, but as I've said before - I have fairly broad shoulders and so it helps for stoles to be longer for me).

I'm not going to keep working until I run out of yarn (my original plan); it would be too long, then.

I've decided the Bird's Nest Shawl is next in the queue. Camel yarn, yay! (I bought some dk weight camel yarn from Elann a couple years back for this).

I'm also seriously considering - since the Airy Cardigan is in "time out" once again, because I'm just fed up with the hairy yarn - winding off the Second Time Cotton I bought a while back on a trip to visit my folks and starting yet another Sitcom Chic. Because the two I have, I wear all the time. It is an extremely convenient sweater for me - a good weight, it looks fairly good on me, it's feminine without being too fussy. Just generally a good pattern and a sweater that works for me. So I think I need another. (And I'm going to slightly alter the sleeves - provided I have enough yarn - to make them wrist-length. I did that on the blue SitCom chic I have and it looks a lot better on me than the 3/4 length sleeves).

I've decided - somewhat regretfully - to bail on the volunteer work I could have done this weekend. Technically I would have time (or rather, could MAKE the time), but you know? I'm TIRED. Really tired. I mean, in an emotional sense. I've been pushing really hard this week and also did last week, and the next two weeks will be challenging as well. And I've done things physically (like carrying around 50 lb pails of soil) that kind of take me to the limits of my ability these days...so I'm also kind of sore.

I kind of hate bailing, because I know there aren't all that many people who can do this (though there are people who can that never do), but I decided (well, with some influence of my mom, whom I called to say, "I have this ethical dilemma...") that I need to take care of myself, as well. And part of that is getting a good block of relaxation (as opposed to grabbing a broken-up hour or two in an evening in between doing loads of laundry)

Also: I have beans! I noticed yesterday afternoon that the little plants were up, which is good. But one thing I have to do this weekend is get some of the special tomato fertilizer and use it on my tomatoes because they're starting to look kind of peaky, and I don't know if that's because my soil is too low in nitrogen for them or if there's some kind of Magic Tomato Micronutrient that it's missing.

And I've decided as a reward for working so hard this week (and as a fluster for having the carboy explode on me yesterday), I'm going down to the little local quilt shop this afternoon. I've been taking a minute or two to dig in my fabric stash (when I go into that closet - like I did this morning to get my clothes for the day*) and finding more of my 1930s fabric stash, and I think I need to get more of the 30s reproduction solid colors so I can make more of the Grandmother's Flower Garden flowers.

I also want to cut more tumblers for the "someday" 1930s reproduction tumbler quilt.


(*I have a walk-in closet off of my sewing room where I keep most of my clothes as well as my fabric and yarn stashes. The "longer" clothes, like dresses, live in the little bedroom closet I have, because the walk-in has doubled clothes poles. I guess the woman who lived here before me had a lot of clothes.)