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felted bowl for etsy customer

felted bowl for etsy customer
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ALL BETS ARE OFF!

Three weeks after my last post, my husband accepted a position at Wind Cave National Park and life became a fury of chaos. I began by "depersonalizing" our house and pseudo packing everything to store in the garage. It paid off...the folks on HGTV are right...we sold our house exactly 1 week from the list date! Having such an empty house brought me to a more in-depth level of organization...the brass tacks. I've spent the rest of my time going through old files, shredding trees-worth of paper, pitching old spices, baking ingredients and half-used bottles and jars of condiments and marinades that weren't that great but I couldn't bring myself to waste. When you're moving, you get a "Get out of Guilt Free" card to play when ridding your house of such things that one might normally consider wasting. It's truly a liberating experience, moving. AND! As my friend, Jacquie, said, "you get to re-invent yourself". She elaborated by reminding me that nobody there knows me and if, by chance, there are any flaws in my personality that I have been wanting to work on or completely change...NOW IS MY CHANCE!! My favorite part about it is: ALL BETS ARE OFF! Did I promise you that I would serve on this committee or watch your house for three weeks and feed your plants and your cat or did I have a momentary lapse of conciousness when I agreed to be the road committee treasurer? Sorry. ALL BETS ARE OFF. And when I get to my new location...you can bet that I'll think twice before offering to bake 150 cupcakes for the school bake sale or sew the costumes for the community theatre's fall production. NOT A CHANCE. I love moving.

Anyway - I have had some time to knit and felt. This is my latest creation: I made it with Nashua Wooly Stripes single ply yarn in the Citrus colorway. It's oh, so soft...hardly like you're knitting anything, it's so very light! I threw this puppy in the washing machine and at the end of the second short cycle, it's was DONE! I couldn't belive it! And it felted beautifully - very strong, dense fabric. I was very pleased with it and so, it seems, is my buyer who commissioned it. I decided this yarn would serve well felted on my feet. So, I ordered 8 skeins of it off Webs site (it's on clearance for $4.99/sk) and can't wait to knit up Bev Galeskas' pattern for some felt clogs.

So, I'm moving AND I'll have a new pair of clogs...can't really see any downside in that! BTW - can I interest anyone in 12 different, partially used, containers of meat rubs?....