These blizzards make me wonder - why have no fireplace and an electric stove in your New England home? Even if it is theoretically a summer home? I guess we have a good quilt, and a grill, and my parents don't live too very far away!
I called about my spinning wheel today - and she hasn't heard back yet about the wait time. It must be weird ordering things from New Zealand, since they're all opposite-land over there. I'm so excited even just to hear some word about when my wheel will be here! I feel like having a time frame will make it feel less like some fantastical dream.
I finished a project yesterday - no, not my Christmas knitting. I needed a break from all the i-cord and short rows, so I picked up a
cropped sweater that I finished knitting in
August and have been putting off seaming. I did the seaming and picked up all the stitches to do the finishing rows around the outside and the sleeves. Now all I need to do is block it!
I also learned a very sproingy new bind-off, because Sunday night be parents had a turkey dinner! Backtracking a little. . . they had a turkey dinner and my aunt who knits was there, and I bound off and the edging was the very tiniest! It squeezed my armpits! She showed me a new bind-off and I brought it home and did that instead, with needles two sizes larger than the ones I had been using. It worked wonderfully, and I'm going to try to find a video of it for you, or maybe make one! That will be a project for tomorrow, when I will likely be snowed in.
Remind me to tell you how Louie went on walkabout this morning, ok? Because she explored the house pretty thoroughly, and I can't be mad that I was late for work because her ears are so dang floppy.
