The back of Bettina is done:
Her general cushy springy texture makes her not want to lay flat. I am sure a good blocking bath will cure part of this.
The modem died on my computer this week and locked up the entire computer. It unfortunately happened just as I was beginning to transmit the payroll on Tuesday morning. Once we figured out it was the modem, and got the offending card out of the computer, I was able to use the computer enough to get the accounting data backed up and on to my portable. A mini revolution would have occurred had paychecks not appeared in their proper bank accounts by the end of the week.
While I waited for the technician to come with the new modem card (I should have just put it in myself) I cleaned up the sewing room/office and caught up on other household tasks. I was somehow too annoyed to work on sewing up sweaters. Busy work was needed, no thought involved.
Then, when the computer guy did not show up on Wednesday, as promised by my Dell 24 hour on site service plan, and after a long and rather annoyed call to Dell, when they promised he would be there the next day, I decided it was time to clean out and reorganize the sweater drawers.
I emptied everything out, resorted sweaters by color, which was roughly the order anyway, using a color wheel as a guide, really looking at the more difficult sweaters to see where they really fit, and looking at color charts to figure out how to classify some colors. It was actually fun and entertaining. I must have been pretty desperate huh....
I even took notes as to what I was missing and particularly wanted to go in my wardrobe. I have a couple of bags for Goodwill containing those sweaters that I haven't worn for years and don't really like anymore or were in colors that I really don't wear and don't look good on me. Most of the sweaters I don't wear don't get worn because they don't look good. Most of the rejects were purchased sweaters not hand-knit ones (thank goodness) except for one, my first cabled sweater, from about 12 years ago. First of all it was Mustard, which is not a good color. Secondly it was a VERY WARM heavy worsted wool. Thirdly it was so obviously late 80's in style it looked tremendously dated, more like a costume than a wearable garment. It was a vest with lots of cable work and square shoulder/arm panels that stuck out to the side making it look something like a combination of tyrolean-Samurai-Star Wars. Not at all appealing.
The computer saga continues as the new modem went in but then new problems materialized. It looks like we are going to be cleaning out that computer and restarting it from scratch. MY patience will be tested. More simple new knitting will probably occur.
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