It's Time to Get Serious

 I literally have 4 posts in my drafts that say the same damn thing in them.  They're all just started on different days after different things had happened to keep me from actually posting them.  

In the interim, I've actually finished the shawl I was working on that was the focus of all of those posts, so here's a post about it and the reveal!

I finally got the desire to actually knit something.  Since the holidays, there have been several false starts on projects that are in various stages of 'the beginning' or have just been undone.  This one, though, I got pretty far on and when I did put it down, I actually picked it back up.

To be completely honest, there were a few false starts on this project itself, as I figured out what I wanted to do and what yarn I wanted to use.  

My biggest hurdle was discovering that my swift is missing.  I had a nice cushy set up in the back that quickly, when I stopped 'working' on my business, became the black hole of there's no where to put this shit so lets just leave it on this table here.

The youngest will be leaving for school soon (11 days from now, I'll be in the car crying my poor eyes out about her not coming home anymore, except for holidays), so I have been making decisions about my own work station and what we want to do with the space she is vacating.

When the oldest went off to school, she moved into his room and my husband took over her old room, which was really the old porch area of the house that got walled in and roofed.  Once he came back home, he slept in the back part of the house, the third part of the triple wide.  When he went to work and was working from 9 pm to morning time, and she finished school and had a date to move into school, they switched.  

In the summer time, my husband made me a table to put items to sell on.  I made knit and crochet stuff to sell in a local boutique. When I decided to not do it anymore, (because I didn't do very well over the year I was doing it), I brought the table home and put it in the back where my work space was.  And where the kid was sleeping.  

She wasn't too pleased about it, but whatever. I had nowhere else to put it despite the husband saying he would just have it as his table beside his recliner.  His table that would have had it in the middle of the living room with the way the room is set up. 

I'm also going to school, later in the month and last year me sitting on the bed with a lap desk wasn't all that awesome, since by the end of the semester I was basically standing, because, sitting on your bed for over an hour at a time sure does make your butt go numb. 

Sitting in a chair at a table of a perfect height because your husband is an awesome dude that made the table the perfect height even though he didn't even fathom that you'd use it as your school desk is way better. 

Anyways, I digress... My swift is missing.  Even moving the table away from where I assumed it had fallen has not given up it's whereabouts.  This was distressing to me because all the cool yarns I was pulling out where still hanks and as such it would take an act of God for me to be able to neatly roll that shit up into a ball. 

Then I found it.  The perfect ball of yarn for the perfectly name shawl I was going to make for my daughter to take with her to school. 

Here it is:

Project:  Close to You shawl by Justyna Lorkowska of Lete's Knits

Yarn: madelinetosh Tosh Merino Light In Electric Rainbow

The yarn is super soft single ply merino yarn and it was fantastic to knit with!  I was skeptical, as usual about using size 6 needles with fingering weight yarn, but (as usual) it was great.

Now, I just have to wash it, block it and weave in those dreaded ends, which number 2, by the way.

Instead, I cleaned out a space in my room, swept and mopped the floor, cleaned off the walls and moved in some furniture.  Then I set up my laptop and sat my ass down to write a blog post that I've written about 4 other times already and was just bothering me and eating a very much too large slice of cheesecake so that there won't be any arguing of the others trying to decide who gets to eat the rest of the cheesecake that they all forgot about.  

Mom, of course, did not forget that there was cheesecake in the fridge.  Nope, no way, no how did she forget about the fact that she made Cheesecake # 17 from Amy + Jacky, in the Instant Pot she got on clearance by chance at Walmart one Sunday morning. The only adjustment I made was using granulated Swerve for the cheesecake batter to help curb the carbs, though I did use regular brown sugar, which I know negates anything that might have been saved by using Swerve. That did not enter my brain at all until a few days ago.I do not care, though.  I made a damn cheesecake and it tastes good. Plus: Graham Crackers and putter

Hope you have a great weekend and happy crafting!