About Me ColorJoy Home Page Free Stuff About Me Contact Me
ColorJoy Home Page
ColorJoy Home The ColorJoy Blog Buy Patterns, Recipe Books, CDs Patterns Schedule & Potential Classes Recipes & Food Information The LynnH SockTour LynnH Polymer Clay The Fabulous Heftones - Lynn & Brian

Archive for December 20th, 2002

Dishwasher!

Friday, December 20th, 2002

The most exciting thing in my day was getting a dishwasher (and a garbage disposal)! I’m so excited, my enthusiasm is probably out of proportion. I tend to excite easily, which is often a character asset (passion for life, right?) but looks silly when one gets this hyped about an appliance.

The creative task of the day was figuring out where to put all the stuff that used to be stored where the dishwasher now sits. We had seven drawers and now we have four, so this is a bit of a challenge. I can figure it out somehow. I got a magnet strip to put on the wall for holding knives. We will figure it out. What this will mean is some counter space not designated for dishes pre- or post-washing. Well, enough about that…

I also am knitting the second cuff of the pair I pictured for my friend yesterday (Turkish Zig). I will probably finish the cuff before the end of the day. In addition, I worked on the socks for the spring publication, and am ready to start the heel flaps on those.

I usually knit both sox approximately at the same time (on separate sets of double-pointed needles) so that my gauge is approximately equal on both sox. I have a real problem with “the gauge of the hour” where I get looser and tighter for no apparent reason, and going back and forth between the two sox helps me a lot. I also don’t suffer from “second sock syndrome” that way, which is an added bonus!