2011 July 22 — Patchwork Times by Judy Laquidara

July 22, 2011 · by JudyL

It was so nice having Chad and Nicole spend time sprawled out in the living room working the puzzle that I ordered two more puzzles for them. They arrived yesterday and Chad was feeling a bit better than he had been and decided they should start one of them.

This is as far as they got. He’s feeling so bad! At least he isn’t sick at his stomach and it hurts to talk so he sits quietly and looks pathetic. We’re expecting today, tomorrow and Sunday to be the worst days . . if what the doctor and everyone else has said holds true for Chad. Nicole is amazing! She had to go to work yesterday but she texted Chad every 4 hours to remind him to take his pain meds. We’re all counting down the days til he’s better and quite thankful that it hasn’t been any worse than it’s been.

Yarn Panic

July 22, 2011 · by JudyL

There’s no way I will run out of yarn . . not in 2011, not in 2015, not in this lifetime . . probably. But, there’s some amount of panic that set in when Vince and I had this conversation over the phone last week:

Me: Honey, I think I’m going to need to order some yarn on August 1 for the Camp Loopy Project and it probably will not get shipped from them to me til August 3 or 4 because they get really swamped when they announce the new project on the 1st.
Vince: O.K.
Me: And, it usually takes a week for the yarn to get to me.
Vince: O.K.
Me: And, we’re leaving on August 11 and I’m afraid the yarn will arrive after we’ve left.
Vince: Can’t you have it shipped to Texas?
Me: Where? We don’t have an address.
Vince: Send it to my office.

Then there was a long silence and Vince was saying “Judy? Judy? Are you still there?”

I was thinking . . how horrible would it be for every yarn purchase I make to have to be sent to Vince’s office? I know . . it’s just temporary but even temporary could be a problem.

I immediately ordered some yarn — just to be sure I have plenty. You know . . it’s the same as buying fabric. A knitter cannot have too much yarn just like a quilter cannot have too much fabric . . unless she’s moving!

The top row was sale yarn. Lorna’s Laces used to be put up on smaller skeins and it took 2 skeins for one pair of socks but they switched to putting it up in larger skeins so that one skein will make a pair of socks. Eat, Sleep, Knit had the smaller skeins on sale so I couldn’t pass that up. Justified purchase!

How can you order yarn without ordering a bit of Madelinetosh? Impossible! The bottom row is all Madelinetosh. Everything is Tosh Merino Light except the orange and that’s sock yarn.

The next package of yarn I order will be for my August Camp Loopy Project and it will be shipped to Vince’s office. Wish me luck with that!