Catching Up

Pro-tip: don’t combine your hobby with your employment. It just sucks the life out of you.

So yeah, it’s been a minute since my last post. I did do some sewing over the summer but not as much as I’d have liked to. It was just too freaking hot to do much of anything all summer long.

One thing I did do though!

I finished stitching this piece for a baby gift! Yes, the baby was born in February. Yes, that’s February of 2017. What do you want from me.

I have been knitting, too, just not so much that is for me and me alone. I went to Rhinebeck, where I got stung by a bee and only bought two skeins of yarn (not because I got stung by a bee, I just didn’t feel called to buy much more than that) plus some honey and beeswax candles. I also started my Brewster Pullover in what I realize after the fact are the MOST Halloween-y shades of Berroco Ultra Alpaca Light that I could manage and I’m 100% okay with that.

And then promptly realize that it’s freaking November and there are a couple of gifts that I wanted to knit and those, plus work projects, have taken over (sigh).

BUT I’m getting a new computer—nothing too fancy, just a laptop with actual RAM and storage space so that it won’t take me an hour to write a blog post (assuming the words are flowing, and I’m not writing an opus, it generally doesn’t take long to write out a blog post—I just hate doing it on my slow AF laptop, or my phone), so I’m hoping to get back to blogging about things. I’m also moving apartments very soon (VERY SOON) and hope to set up a dedicated space for photographing projects, which has been a big hurdle for me lately. Though of course this also means that I have limited crafting time because I have to pack up my life before November 30.

Related: If anyone wants to take any of this GD yarn off my hands, I have some sweater quantities in my destash page, and am 100% willing to part with most single skeins from my regular stash page.

Yes, I am absolutely shameless.

One of my potential goals for 2019 is to make a realistic-as-possible three-year plan of projects (recognizing that it will undoubtedly actually take at least five years because nothing ever goes according to plan) and get rid of anything that doesn’t make that cut. There’s just TOO. MUCH. YARN. Have you tried anything like this, making a serious list and culling things (doesn’t have to be yarn)? I’d love your thoughts on the process!