Quiet Week

This should be a relatively quiet week. The key word is should...seems like these days that is never a given around here! Oh, I do have plenty of things I need to get done....like finish doing our taxes, pay some bills, do menu planning, grocery shopping, do some house cleaning...always plenty to do! I have to get my presentation done for Guild and do some charity knitting too. I've said it before, but I don't know how I ever found the time to work...lol....I seem to be busier since I've retired than I ever was before!

I have managed to get a little knitting done this past week. Not as much as I would have liked, but then I never get as much knitting done as I want to.....even when I knit almost non-stop!

I cast on a quickie knit while in the waiting room during Amanda's surgery and finished it up the next night. It's just a simple garter stitch scarf out of Feza Alp. CO 200 stitches and mindlessly knit until I had just enough left to do some fringe.

I have also made headway on the Log Cabin Wrap. Not technically finished....I still have 4 more squares to do, but almost done! Once I got adjusted to knitting with cobwebs I have loved, loved doing this! Maybe we will have another chilly day or two so I can actually wear it once this year!
Sorry, I can't decide which pic I like the best so I couldn't resist posting both since I love this thing so much!

The only other thing I have going right now is the Eagle's Flight sock out of the Opal Feelings. I had started the Jaywalkers out of it but got a full 8 inch cuff done and, thankfully, decided to try them on in progress! There is NO give or stretch to the pattern and I could not get even close to getting them over my heel! So, to the frog-pond they went and I cast on these instead.

Speaking on this topic. I am going to have to start a low-fiber diet!!!(Notice I said low....not NO-fiber)...lol. I simply must! I have been a wild woman this year buying yarn, yarn and more yarn! I should be getting a huge shipment today of sock yarn that I read about on the sockknitter's yahoo group. Hard for me to pass up a deal and this sounded like a deal to me. I forget the specifics, but will post about it again when it comes, but basically 20 skeins of sock yarn (10 pair) for only $55. The posts I read about the yarn were all positive, but I haven't used it before.....so I guess it's a bit of a leap of faith.... we will see. Then I caved and joined another SOM club.....and then I decided to go to the Retreat sponsored by The Gourmet Yarn Co.!!!! I refuse to tally up the total spent on yarn and knitting since the first of the year....I don't even want to know...lol....I just know that I need to stop for a while! With the price of gas right now and the projected price of gas in the upcoming months we won't be able to take the motorhome out and go anywhere if I don't control myself...at least a little! DH has decided to take a hiatus on spending for the salt water tank as well. We have both been bad this year so that makes me feel somewhat better about my addiction since he has one too. We will see how we do...lol!