
He also got me a wonderful bottle of wine, Rosenblum Vineyard Desiree Chocolate Wine. If you want a decadent dessert wine, try this out. It has a wonderful warm chocolate aroma that change your mind about ports.

My sewing table came in the mail today!! Spent most of the late afternoon assembling & now I have what will be a great little table for me.
Well, it was a very busy weekend here. I set out to organize the quilting studio. So that the business can start! Hopefully my sewing table will be here Friday & then I just have to order a work table. At that point, the doors can officially open! I’ve been really busy planning & developing ideas. This is so exciting!!
Anyways, I’ve also been busy putting the final touches on various knitting projects. The townhouse in Virginia was NOT condusive to blocking large projects, but this house certainly is!
This is a scarf/shawl/stole from Cheryl Oberle’s Folk Shawls. I believe I used Jamison wool that I purchased at Far North Yarn Company up in Anchorage.
And here is a quick project I finished today:
A wrist cushion for the mouse! A great help as I’m spending more & more time at the computer!
It was a very productive Thursday! I finished my Maeve socks:
1. I’ve gotten into a nice routine of cleaning everyday- which should help me manage the place.
2. Potted some african violets over the weekend, so now the bedroom seems a little more finished.
3. Finished 1 Maeve sock & now at the gusset increases on the second one. Would really like to finish this tomorrow, most likely won’t be until Thursday.
4. Currently reading “Cards on the Table” by Agatha Christie. One from my Booksfree queue. I really enjoy reading her novels. Very entertaining even 80 + years later. Maybe tonight I will find out who the killer is…..
The knitting mojo left the room about the same day we closed on the house. Since then I’ve just been trying to keep up with the greatly increased maintenance & responsibility home ownership requires. This leaves little time or energy to knit. It also doesn’t help that I’m currently working on a fairly intricate set of socks. Maeve socks. (Rav link, I would show a pic of mine, but I’m far too lazy to take a picture of them.) So at the end of the day, the last thing I want to do is find out which row of the 24 row repeat I’m on & figure out R/L twists & all the other stuff this pattern throws at you.
But yesterday, things made a change for the better. J had to go into work, so I woke up at crack o’ dawn with him. There were plenty of things to be done, but they were mostly yard things & I wouldn’t be creating good neighborly relations if I decided to mow the lawn at 7am on a Saturday. So I decided to pick up the socks! My mind was fresh after a good nights sleep & there weren’t any major distractions in the house. I ended up making good progress & hope to finish one sock today.
Best part is, I want to knit again. That’s a great feeling.
The house we purchased already had a raised garden plot in the back. This was very exciting for me, as I have always wanted a vegetable garden. So as soon as we got the house partway manageable, I started in on the garden. It’s been an incredible amount of work, but I almost have all the grass out (it went unused for several years) & then can add more topsoil. Hopefully I will get some plants in there by the weekend.
So as a result, I haven’t been doing much knitting. I did start a simple granny square afghan last week with some yarn my father-in-law gave me. It’s been the easy no-brainer project that’s kept me sane in the evenings. It’s fairly boring, but I’ll post a pic soon. I really need to finished up some socks though. The Obscuriosity KAL I participate in on Ravelry is having Round 4 shortly & it looks like some great sock patterns will make the final cut. Definately want to participate in that!