Does Medicare supplement insurance cover the loss of blogging and crating mojo, or am I on my own for that? Because not only have I not blogged, I haven’t stitched much either. In fact, I don’t think I have stitched at all. I’ve been working, working, working and dealing with drama, drama, drama and cleaning, cleaning, cleaning and not a whole lot else.

But a month? How does a month go by and I don’t touch fiber? That’s just…wrong. On so many levels.

Ok, so I sat down in front of a movie the other night to work on my sweater. My row guage is a bit off from the pattern, so I had decided to take it back a couple of rounds so it would not be too large. And that is a very good thing, because apparently knitting late at night on the phone is like giving the best diet pills to my attention span. I had messed up the increase pattern several times in the preceding round!

I’m back on track now, and once again ready to divide for the sleeves, but that was a close one! Good thing I’ve lost weight lately instead of gaining, or I never would have been ripping back. Or tinking, rather. I don’t rip rounds, it’s too hard to figure out where to start stopping.

and maybe even to conquer! It’s time to set aside stitches for the sleeves of my pinwheel sweater. I’m excited and a little intimidated. I cannot make my mind see the way she explains the provisional cast on, and there are no Orlando vacations in sight for me to spend hours figuring it out. I’ve pretty much decided to crochet a chain and pick up the stitches into that. The effect will be the same, and it’s something I already know how to do. At this point, the sweater has been sitting for most of a week, and I am more than ready to get moving on it again!

I’m also on the lookout for a mindless knitting project so I can watch movies and knit. Of course, one I get this sleeve thing done, the pinwheel sweater will be good movie knitting. Maybe I just need to DO IT.

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Several months ago, in a fit of trying to be orgnaized and efficient, I packed all my craft stuff up so it would be contained and not in everyone’s way. Not coincidentally, I realized that’s about the time I quit making stuff. Funny how that worked, huh? Out of sight, out of mind, I guess. Yesterday, I pulled a set of cubbies I had been using for clothes and shoes out of my closet and ito my room. I put my yarn and puzzles and a few books in it. I still need to dig some beading and scrap stuf out from under the bed, but I am loving it already. Very Cass-ish.

Country walked in and told me it looked like a yarn store in here. And ya’ll, the phone rang as I had my hands wrapped around my Peruvian alpaca silk, and I really had to think about whether I wanted to let go of the yarn to answer the phone, LOL! When my friend called, I explained that like he needs his guitar out so he can see it, even when he doesn’t play it, I need my stuff out to inspire me to create.

I guess I need my yarn like some folks need their ipods.

In actual kntting news, I am continuing on the pinwheel sweater. I’m almost ready to split for the arms. I finished the first ball of yarn in it last night, way late, while enjoying the ambiance of my crafty room.

So, Sunday I took a mental health day. I did only that which was necessary and spent some time doing the things I love: writing, reading, chatting with a friend, knitting. Since I had ZERO desire to finish anything I am currently working on, I started this pinwheel sweater for myself instead. I’m using that lovely rose Cotton Fine that is on the stash page I am too lazy to link to. In fact, I started it four times. And then last night, I looked at how bad the ladders were and I started it yet again. I’m finally satisfied with how the center looks. Well, mostly. But I think it will come out in the wash.

Unfortunately for me, today I smashed my finger while doing some odd jobs. There is no workman’s comp for that, and I doubt calling a Rochester personal injury lawyer will do me much good either. It’s sore to the touch, but I haven’t tried knitting with it yet. We’ll have to see how it goes.

By the way, instead of using dpns to start the sweater, I am using three circs. I tried it with two, but that led to the laddering I spoke of. I’m finding that using three keeps the stitches tighter, but still leaves them loose enough to move of the cable and onto the needle proper. That little issue was the cause of the first two false starts.

I used to know how to knit, I promise!

I maybe need to get some Blue Advantage insurance for my truth teller. It seems to be suffering for some aberrant behavior, such as when I promise a completed BSJ for the weekend, and then don’t even pick it up all week long.

In truth, I have lost my knitting mojo. I guess ya’ll might have noticed. In truth, I want to make stuff, I have the stuff to make stuff, but I just don’t make the time. And while it is true that I have a lot less free time than I had a year or so ago, it is also true that we make time to do the things we really want to do. And it is also true that I still waste a lot of time.

So, the question is, what do you do with a craft blog when you don’t craft anymore? I’m not giving it up, because I know that I will eventually pick up my hobbies again. Besides, I am known all over the internet as CassKnits. So, the blog isn’t going anyplace, I just don’t know what to do with it just now.

So, yesterday, I watched three movies. Now you would think that I would have had ample time to finish up those BSJ cuffs, right? That would be no. I cleaned and worked on computer stuff during those movies. (As an aside, if you ever need to just cry your eyeballs out, I totally recommend Bridges of Madison County. If you can squeeze in Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias first, it’s almost guaranteed to let your waterworks flow. Ahem.) Anyway, tonight I plan to change that. I hav done some work today, and I am going to do a bit more, and that will give my to-do list enough of a boost that I can actually KNIT tonight while I watch more chick flicks.

Imagine the concept: one gts a todo list pared down by actually DOING STUFF. That’s just amazing isn’t? Certainly not as amazing as the claims made by some diet pills, but pretty profound nonetheless. Pictures of a completed BSJ by next weekend. Seriously.

I finished the BSJ last night, and picked up for sleeve cuffs this morning. I plan to put buttonholes and buttons on them, so the recipient can roll them up or leave them down as they wish. Well, I guess that would be the recipient’s mother, right? After I get that done, I will seam the sleeves. And then…… like an addict in drug rehab, I will pick up and knit a little collar. And then! I will add buttons.

And then I will knit something else, or craft something else, because just today I resolved to get back to the things I love. Like, oh you know, making stuff. Etc. Just you wait!