Tomorrow



Tomorrow



Tomorrow

It is my day off! It is my day to go to Longview and spend time around yarn and books and nice soap and gourmet supplies and all manner of things that make life GOOD. It is my day to go out somewhere nice for lunch, to get a big cup of real hot chocolate or chai tea with my lunch, to get dessert if I want it. It is a day when I am only responsible to ME. It is a day when people who have problems I "need" to fix will not be able to reach me and pull me away from what I want to be doing.



I'm thinking, in addition to looking for yarn for either Potter or the fake-Cowichan sweater from the newest Knitscene, I'm going to contemplate yarn for some more fingerless mitts. Because it occurs to me, just like you can have many colors of socks to match your clothes, it would be nice to have more than a pair or two of fingerless mitts...again, to match clothes. The chilly season is coming on and it will be nice to have them for when my office is cold. Or when the classrooms are cold. Or at home, for when I read in bed with the heat turned down. And how much more fun to have ones that match what I'm wearing.

And fingerless mitts are really fast and FUN to knit. They're one of those things that look far trickier than they actually are to do, which makes them fun.

So, I'm going to keep an open mind: I have a nice pattern or two for worsted-weight yarn, but there are also lots of lovely ones for fingering-weight as well.

And for that matter, one of the Ravelry groups I'm in is talking about a January swap, so I might get some yarn with the thought of either doing mitts for me or mitts for a swap-partner.

Oh, and I want another set of size 1 sock needles. And a short #3 circular for when I get to the sleeves on Thermal. And look to see if they have the other Norah Gaughan books that Berroco did. And and and. I am bouncing around with anticipation. It's almost like Christmas!

(Oh! And I need to write down how much yarn that felted Fortune Cookie bag in the new Interweave Crochet takes...I'm thinking about doing one as a Christmas gift for my AAUW gift exchange. And maybe doing one for my sister in law, if the AAUW one turns out well).

And thanks to all the various publishers who hired me to fact-check/proofread/evaluate textbook chapters this fall, the trip will be quite nicely funded.

(And yes. I called Stitches N Stuff just to be sure. They're open tomorrow. I think I have that small-town mindset - being used to times when stores sometimes unpredictably close - and I didn't want to get down there and be Horribly Disappointed. Because if I got there and they were not open, I WOULD cry. And it would be an ugly cry.)