Quiet Time

May has been a whirlwind of emotions and activity. And smoke - as the town has been on again off again shrouded in the smoke from the fires in Florida and Georgia. We are in a drought here, so trying to balance water conservation with the yard that is rapidly becoming a dirt pile.

I did finish the indexing work, though I have a few tweaks to make to my backup. In my delirium, I got a little crazy on the shopping. A while back, a friend alerted me to the limited release of Just Nan's Lady Scarlett's Secret Garden. I quickly got on the waitlist for two (one for me, one for mom) and it arrived this month. I also ordered a bunch of books: Barbara Walker's Treasurys (1,3, and 4), Romantic Style, Knitting Lingerie Style, and Domiknitrix. I am still reading through these, but I am thrilled with all of them.

I finally started Lady Scarlett last night and here's my progress so far - I just love that little ladybug box! My plan was to do one for me and one for my mom, we shall see if I can get them done!

Back when I started knitting (two years ago this month!), I didn't know a lot of knitters in my area. So I did a lot of blog surfing to see other knitters finished projects. One project that I really liked was the squatty satchel, found on Kristi's blog. I thought it was so cute, I had to have one. But, the design was no where to be found. So I went along my way, making other felted bags and other projects. So, imagine my joy when last week's Knitting Daily email contained a design for the Squatty Satchel!!!! I cast on a few days ago with Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride. Finished it Saturday and felted it on Sunday. I picked up the button from Joann's. Felted version shown "fully loaded" and flat to show how much it felted down. I am not organized enough to have measured it before felting it, but the chair does a sufficient job I think! I love how the Brown Sheep felted down, it's nice and thick.

While knitting and stitching this weekend I have spent a lot of quiet time at home, to the delight of my cats. Not the most productive of weekends, but quite restful. I have to do some work today, which isn't fun, but my allergies were so bad last week with the smoke, I wasn't able to finish my assignment. I am going to be out at training all week, so its gotta be today! Assuming my boss is happy with my assignment, I hope to spend some time this week looking at my stash and trying to get a little more organized, both in storage and the projects I want to do.