Tuesday, November 16, 2004
M.I.A.

Missing In Action. That's me.

Where am I?

As I have mentioned before, in my non work life, "crafting" (i.e. knitting, beading, spinning, etc) are secondary to The Dogs. As part of my Dog Life I am the Webmaster for the Samoyed Club of America. I also maintain a very active email list for Samoyed fanciers. And I also recently started a Breeder Referral Listing for Samooyed Breeders.

On a busy month the list I oversee will have about 300 messages posted. Our highest ever was 839. This month we are only half way thru the month and we are at 560. Suffice it to say there are some very hot "political issues" going on in the Sammie world right now and I'm in the middle of it. All my free time has been spent babysitting the list, overseeing a petition drive, soothing hurt feeling, correspoinding with people about the issues. And on the phone. Waaayyyy too much time onthe phone. I am NOT a phone person. I'm tired. Very tired.

But I have been knitting a little.

Tha back of Butterfly is done and I started a sleeve. I did stop at my LYS on Saturday and picked up a 12th ball of yarn which I think I will definitely need.

I think the problem I'm having is that while my gauge was dead on for the stockinette portion of the pattern, it is tight for the chevron part and I have eaten up more yarn that I should have. I had to do some judicsiou blocking to get the width I needed on the back, and it also turned out a bit long. It's hard to measure the chevron part accurately.

Clapotis continues. I'm on the 7th repeat of the dropped stitches and am beginning to get concerned about yarn quantity for this as well. If I do run out, I have no alternative but to rip out and do fewer repeats as the yarn I'm using is a one of a kind handpaint.

Ruffles progresses slowly. And I'm still not sure I like the yarn I am using. Probably why it is progressing slowly.

I haven't touched Obi or Earnshaw in over a week.

Hopefully life will quiet down and return to normal soon.

Something to look forward to... Babe goes to her first puppy match this weekend!!


Anne at 6:18 AM        
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