What happened to the month of October? That went by fast. We only had about 60 kids come to our house on Halloween. That is so great. When we first moved here almost 9 years ago we had over 400 the first year! We ran out of candy, then I got creative and gave out packets of hot chocolate and finally we just had to turn off all of the lights. My tenure as president of a local club will come to an end next Thursday. That will be my last meeting as President. Oh yessssssss!!!! I cannot wait. But that being the case, I have to give my officers gifts for all of their support and help this last year. I could not have done it without them. Great group of ladies let me tell you. I decided that I wanted to knit something for each of them. That can be kind of interesting because you have to kind of know their personalities and then go from there. And, certain colors for certain people. I decided to make the Moebius scarves. I had made one with King Cole Mohair and it hung so nicely that I decided I wanted to use that yarn again. My LYS sold the last of their King Cole to my sister in law and so I got to help them pick out colors to order. That was great because I was able to get four that I really wanted to make. One of my ladies wears a great deal of pink, so I was thinking I should make something pink for her. Well....I couldn't find what I really wanted so tried a yarn out that just about drove me over the deep end. Just kidding but it was extremely difficult to knit with. I will tell you later the name, as I am in my house and the yarn is in my office. At any rate I finished this scarf and it just didn't look like Linda. So, back to the drawing board. Lucky for me the LYS had ordered a beautiful pastel King Cole and so I completed one in that. I love the way it hangs. When you make them out of Mohair, they are not heavy and you can do so much with them. Another Linda is going to get one made from some soft black yarn with some glitter in it. She is tiny and petite and hopefully I didn't make this scarf to large for her. If it is I will go back to the drawing board with it as well. Then the other Linda (yes, there are three of them) wears so much red and blue so I am making her a red one. The fourth one is for Winnie and I decided to make her one in some beautiful fall colors. I will take pictures of all of them when I have finished and I am going to hire someone to come and get the volumne fixed on my computer, install my new printer and install my Kodak docking station. Yes, I have done all of the above before, but the frustration level when I do these things reaches an all time high so I am going to pay my friend Heather's father to do this work for me. What a joy it will be to be able to post pictures of my completed work. Another cool thing that is going to happen is that I am going to go to a yarn trade show in January with the owners of my LYS. Excited,,,,,to say the least.
I don't know if I ever told you how I came about getting the name lacyzigzag? When I decided to do the secret pal thing I had to set up the blog. You all know about that. The cool names that I was thinking about were already taken. So, I was looking through a pattern book of various stitches and found a pretty one called lacy zigzag. That is how my blog was born. When I get my camera and docking station hooked up I will post a picture of the stitch.
I have been spending my Saturdays and Sunday afternoons down at the LYS, but today I think I am going to stay home and try to clean up a corner in my bedroom so that I can put a bookcase there. You see, I have so many knitting books and no where to put them. I have the corner behind the door cluttered with clutter. Time to go through and throw things away. I am motivated because I want easy access to all of my knitting patterns and until I have my own room....not in the forecast...I better make good use of the spaces that I have. Besides that, I hate clutter.
Last weekend I got an email from the SP hostesses and they asked me if I would be an angel for a lady that had not received anything from her SP. So, I said sure I would do this. This SP has a yarn stash that makes me want to go out and buy buy buy. So, on Monday I put together a good size package and took it to the post office on Tuesday. I was feeling sad for her because she had not gotten anything. Now after all of that, her SP came through. Imagine that. It is a little irritating that a SP would wait so long. I mean....what's up with that. My SP has been very gracious and she has sent me lovely things. I haven't been able to post pictures because of well you know the story the camera and docking station.
By the way SP if you happen to read this I just want you to know that I use that little project bag all of the time and I love it. I was able to find something similar and ordered some more because they are so much nicer than a zip lock bag!
Enough for now.