Boo hoo, sob sob!

I am not on my working retreat. I am at home. This is a big disappointment for me as I was really hoping to get lots of work done. I am gettng work done as I have stopped answering phones and am pretending to not be here, but I am not getting as much done as I would like. There are distractions and I'm not happy about that. Oh well, things are progressing but slowly.

I am continueing to work on the project from my workshop of three days ago. I have spun the 9 skeins required and am working on the scarf that the yarn harlot has on her blog called the Noro scarf. Mine will be hand spun as apposed to bought fibre and that makes a world of difference, in my opinion. It is a rib stitch scarf over an odd number of stitches and stripes from one colour to the next in gradual changes. I loved it and so I am on to that project. I shall be spinning the fibre for the in-between stripes.

Meanwhile I am still working on the baby surprise sweaters. Those I have relagated to knit night on Thursdays, but even those progress. I am almost finished two of them at the same time. Then I will be working on the wristlets for the Daughter for Christmas. In between I am trying to find time to work on the quilt.... yeah there's actually two quilts that I am working on. One is for our church raffle and the other is for our foster child in Peru. Neither one is a large quilt. But both need to be done soon. But I digress.

Scarves.... I finished two back in the summer for Christmas gifts.... yeah I forgot about them when I said the other day that I had nothing done for Christmas. Then I did get the baby sweater from our September workshop (I gave that one so there is something not right about not finishing the project you instigated in the first place) almost finished before I ran out of fibre and had to stop until I got a chance to spin more. So that is 7 UFO's.... see I really need a retreat to get some of these projects done. Ah well... the baby sweaters will wait till after Christmas, the quilts can be finished in a day or two, and the scarf is just spinning, I won't work on that until after Christmas... I just want to finish the spinning now, while the going is good. Next I need to get a hat done for a gift exchange. But that is a surprise.

I have hit the wall for my level 2 homework. I have checked through my notes and all blends need to be labeled in terms of % so I will have to wait on the blends until next week until I can get an accurate scale. I can work on the skeins that are not blended and so I will as of Monday when I have finished my scarf yarn spun. That's today.....

Remember what my Dad says.... "make a plan and stick to it". That's what I am going to do. Retreat????? I'm going to have mine anyway..... it's all part of the plan.