Month: June 2022

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When Last We Spoke

When last we spoke, I had purchased some yarn from the road trip. Well, I went to the Hobby Lobby by the house just a few days ago….just to see what I could see. Also because someone online said they still had some clearance stuff including their Fireside yarn. The equivalent to Homespun. It was on sale for about $1.75. Prayer shawls, you see. I had prayer shawls in mind.

So I went. And there it was. And now almost every ball that was there is here. I couldn’t reach the last ball of the black so it couldn’t come. There was only one ball of a very pretty color but I needed three. So that stayed. Then there was a not very pretty color. That stayed. I came home with the rest. About 16 skeins. Less than $30.

Score.

But, as you can see, it’s not like I haven’t been busy. This is not all that is finished. There are two more hats. Two more washcloths. Some different kinds of scrubbies. (The inspiration for this particular Happiness Project.) There are also digital stickers. I’ve been thinking about starting the monthly sticker giveaway again. Thinking about it. When I pray about it, I might get an answer one way or the other.

When it’s laid out like this, I have a visual of how much was accomplished in such a short matter of time. Sometimes you have to step back and take a look at the whole forest and appreciate the trees as a group.

This is a pretty nice forest.

 

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I Know

I know. Really, I know. But it couldn’t be helped. We went on a road trip to Montgomery, AL to watch my nephew play baseball for the Chattanoga Lookouts.

It was the same time Hobby Lobby was having their clearance sale and if you know the stores in Chicago, you know the clearance wasn’t going to last long. I was all content to pass it by until we arrived at our hotel in Madison, TN. There was a Hobby Lobby right down the street from the hotel. Still I resisted. I didn’t need yarn – OK. I had just purchased stuff from HB and didn’t need to go back.

So, we drove on to Montgomery (after a stop in Birmingham to pick up my brother and nephew.) And there, right across the street from our hotel in Plattville, AL. Hobby Lobby. I swear, I wasn’t going to go but as it happened, I needed black yarn for one of the projects I brought with me and they were having their regular 30% off sale. So, over I went.

And there was a bunch of cotton on sale. And I am doing a bunch of stuff with cotton. I got the black yarn, some cotton yarn and some other stuff. My haul was less than $50.

But there was a slight emptiness. I left the hand dyed yarn behind. It’s a three weight and I don’t usually deal in that. But there a hat I want to make – for the longest time – that looks good in sock yarn or three weight. It’s this classic right here. You know the hat.

We were set to leave Tuesday morning and Mr. Honey wanted to leave before check out time at 11:00. The store opened at 9 and I was gonna take some luggage down to the car while he was still sleeping and take that 3 minute ride. But he got up and I confessed what I wanted to do and he was good with it. We packed up got in the car and he drove me over.

I found the green on sale – which is great. I need it to go with the pink for the stocking cap I want to make. Found the hand dyed, which I knew I wasn’t going to buy a lot of. I can get two beanies out of each skein. So seven skeins was enough. The haul was less than the first one. All told, I spent maybe $70. Not bad.

But yes, I know. Ton o’yarn. But I know what I want to use it for. The furry yarn for cuffs on hats and gloves. The beanies from the hand dyed and the anti-pill. Wash cloths from the cotton. See? There’s a plan. Trust me.

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A New Kind of Fun

I am about to have a new kind of fun. This arrived in the mail.  Not everything in the box arrived in the box. Some of the yarn I threw in there so everything I needed was in the same box. But the sparkly nylon all arrived in the box. 

It’s Herrschners Suds and Scrub yarn. I got it because a friend said she was down to her last nylon scrubby and wanted to know if I made them. Well, I knew I could make them even if I hadn’t up to then. So, being me, I bought 20 balls of the stuff.

I made four different kinds of scrubbies: a towel made of cotton, a scrubby made with cotton and the nylon, a super scrubby made from Yarn Bee Scrubology (more on that later) and the scrubby made from the Suds and Scrub. That’s the one she used and the one she liked and the one she was telling folks they should get because it’s so good. She has built up an expectation for the product better than if I paid for her to do it. This is straight out of Marketing the Jesus Way. (More on that later, too.) 

The funny thing is, I haven’t tried these for myself. I have dirty dishes and I have a piece of nylon that’s done more of its share of work. I don’t know why I just don’t take what I whipped up and place them on the sink and use them. There would be no more thorough person than Mr. Honey. That could be the problem.