Back to Reality Today!

I don't know about all of you, but I for one am glad the holidays are over. It was great fun, but by the time we got home last night, I was "partyed" out! I love my family, but 3 family visits in one week, with essentially all the same people, is a little wearing. By yesterday, there just wasn't anything new left to talk about. But it's back to reality today with a vengence.

Before I go there, though, let me catch up on the past few days. I got to Webs and Creative Fibers on Friday. There were a few purchases, but unfortunately I don't have any pictures. I haven't had time to take any, and the yarn is all upstairs this morning with my sick hubby, so I can't take pictures this morning without disturbing him. But let me just say that Webs was all about sale items and sock yarn. Did you know that Regia has a new line of sock yarn with designer colors, designed by Kaffe Fassett? It's yummy and will probably become Jaywalkers next month. At Creative Fibers, I didn't find any sale items to buy, but I did discover their lace section. What can I say, I am weak! I came home with 2 skeins of Malabrigo Lace in a colorway called Emerald Blue, a skein of Fiddlesticks Knitting Laceweight in Sable, and a tiny (250 yards) skein of Jamieson & Smith cobweb yarn. I've been wanting some cobweb yarn, and that should be enough for a scarf, so it seemed worth it and affordable. So it was a really fun day, and my Mom enjoyed herself too.

The weekend consisted of housework and entertaining, but I did find time to properly finish my stash inventory. I added everything I bought on Friday, and I counted the baby yarn that I had skipped last week. The final totals: 844 skeins of yarn, translating to 105 miles of yarn. So I did make it past that 100 mile mark! Now that I have, I'm actually kind of proud. After all, I do have quite an impressive stash! And I'm really going to enjoy knitting and crocheting from it this year. I'm also working on my list of WIPs. Hopefully, I will have some FOs shortly.

And I promise, WIP Wednesdays will start next week. Right now, I am kind of in limbo, waiting for Saturday and the Knit a Mile challenge to start. I am going to try to finish up at least 1 or 2 things before that starts, and then once the challenge gets going, I implement my "focus projects" approach. I've tried to pick things with lots of yardage to use up, and I'm feeling pretty good about my chances of meeting this challenge.