I'm not having a good morning - I've already cried today, and already raged at a stupid thing (I wanted to wear the new geode pendant, but the catch on it is stupid small, and I'm often clumsy first thing in the morning, and could not get it to work. Nevermind, I thought, I have those magnetic catches I can install. But I didn't realize it takes a jump ring (which I do not have) to do that. So I guess on my to-get list now is a little pack of gold jump rings so I can do that. Not sure if Mart of Wal has them but I'm really not up to going there so maybe Saturday after bell choir, if I decide to run to Sherman I can get some at JoAnn's)
Anyway. To try to cheer myself up, let's think about knitting.
Last night I pulled out the pair of Weasley Homestead socks I started out of an inexpensive (Lion Brand) sockyarn - I bought the sockyarn on a trip to Michael's when I was up at my mom's. She commented the colors in the yarn were "pretty" (huh? It's grey with darker gray and a tiny bit of yellow? I often buy yarn because it's "odd colors" rather than something I strictly think is "pretty") and so I've decided to make these part of her Christmas present. They are colors she wears more than I do anyway.
I also have a pair of bright rainbow socks with glitter on the needles I might also give her. And maybe make up a pair - I have some slipped-stitch patterns that would suit - out of the yarn I bought this weekend, the purple-and-amber yarn I bought. I like the idea of making her Christmas present this year and I know she's commented many times how much she likes the socks I've made her in the past.
I also found a Mr. Rogers-inspired women's cardigan as a FREE pattern on Ravelry. It takes sport weight, which I don't tend to keep on hand....so I ordered some from Webs (in a nice green - sort of a kelly green, but less bright. I actually think maybe in the 70s Mr. Rogers actually had a cardigan in that color? I thought of burgundy first but then I saw the green in the Webs yarn, and just decided I liked it, and I don't have a cardigan in that shade of green, so). It might become my proctoring project this fall; I think there's probably a lot of plain stockinette there.
I also keep thinking I need to get back into the grey cardigan I started...oh, it feels like forever ago but it was only mid-June. (Though emotionally, that seems forever ago). I hope I can figure out where I was in the pattern. I know I wrote down the pattern of increases I needed to follow and hopefully I still have the row-counter associated with the project or else I'll have to count stitches to figure out what row I'm on.
I dunno. At the best of times I vacillate between "I should get rid of almost all my yarn and only buy as needed for specific projects" and "I want all the yarn, and what if I can't get this yarn or any yarn in the future, or what if inflation/tariffs/who-knows-what inflates the prices beyond what I can pay" (already some yarn is expensive enough I wouldn't buy a sweater's worth, but the most recent Webs purchase was about $50, which is kind of reasonable these days for a wool sweater)
And I also vacillate between "I need to finish the things I have going now" and "I want to start all the new projects."
And both of those mood swings are worse right now, because of Reasons. I don't know what to do but maybe I alternate between working on/finishing ongoing stuff and starting new things.
Another thought: I may just bring in one of my slightly-less-precious (so if it gets lost or stolen, I'd be less upset) stuffed animals and sit it somewhere on my desk. I think it would help to have something to surreptitiously hug when I feel like this :(
(I have a few of the old "big" Ty animals - the bigger plush versions based off Beanie Babies - that I bought 15 or so years ago when they were a thing; I have them stored in a blanket chest and not out on display, one of those might be a good office-comfort creature)
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