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Busy Days

On New Year's Day I finished making a big beautiful basket (video tutorial here) out of scrap variegated yarn so I could stow some thrifted skeins of Mandala Ombre and other yarns I want to work with this month.

I'm now looking through patterns to see what I can make with some of the more exotic yarns I've thrifted. I might crochet some slippers or socks out of the very fine, fingering weight yarn I've collected. More on that after I've found some patterns to swatch.

I'm also waiting on one last lot of yarn I won last year to be delivered; it seems to be bouncing all over the country. When it finally lands I'll show you the skeins and figure out the value.

In the day job department, my initial pitch for this year's big series project was approved, so now I'm working on getting my new delivery schedule reviewed and thinking about how I want to work on the project. I must also outline all the particulars in a project from start to finish so I know everything in advance (and so does the day job crew.) This is my eleventh year working for this publisher and it's been nonstop wonderful.

2026 has gotten off to a good start (knocking on wood as I type that) and I'm more optimistic about this month than I was back in December. I hope it continues on this way and I can skip the unpleasantness of last year.

Image credit: the third pic in this post came from the original auction listing at ShopGoodwill.com.

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