My fabric stash and projects

It's a perfect Sunday afternoon to go through my fabric and get it organized for a few sewing projects I want to complete. And this is just the sewing I want to do....I am not including knitting, needlework or stained glass I have in other corners and spaces. It also does not include the rocking chair and the two sitting chairs I need to get caned seats and backs done on, either! Trouble is I have far too many projects I want to do and not enough time to complete them!

I always liked this yarn

I have a new project. No worries about getting a color I don't like for this one. I've liked this color since I purchased the yarn two years ago in Williamsburg, VA. So did my Auntie Nance, because she purchased yarn to make a sweater for herself that day too. I liked the sweater I selected to make it with - but the pattern didn't really work. I didn't want to admit this to my mother who warned me when I bought the pattern that the company's patterns weren't always well written. Well, she was right. But even though the sweater was nearly complete I didn't want to waste the yarn. Besides the fact that it was rather pricey, it is silk yarn, has a lovely feel, and is a great color! So, over the last week when I needed to unwind, I did just that by unraveling the sweater into hanks of yarn. Once unraveled into hanks (the long loops you see above) the yarn was kinky and needed to be rinsed it out to get it back to shape. Today, while I made my final edits for my paper well ahead of the deadline, the yarn sat outside to dry.

Next, the dried yarn is set on a swift, (this umbrella looking like contraption) to be wound into skeins. Then, I'll check my gauge and start the sweater over the weekend maybe. Thanks to my Auntie Nance I'll have plenty of yarn to complete my new project. Seems someone permanently borrowed the knitting book that had her pattern in it so she never completed her sweater either and since she is busy knitting other projects she is generously giving me her yarn as a birthday present! She'll even personally deliver it to me - next week when I am in Virginia for some events on campus in Richmond. Can't wait to have this sweater done for summer!