Trip to the LYS

While Sean was at school today, I made a trip to the LYS - not really a good thing while on a Yarn Diet. I found the pattern that want to do for Pete's sweater - It is a Raglan In The Round. But the pattern calls for chunky yarn and the yarn that I had already purchased for his sweater is worsted weight, so I took my bag of yarn to the store to have them help me figure out if I could just double-up on the yarn and knit the whole thing with two strands. She said that I could do, I would have to buy another 10 skeins of the yarn I already had, or I could just return the 10 skeins (they were still in the original packaging) and the chunky weight yarn. I opted for going with the chunky weight. I wasn't expecting to do that since I didn't think they would take the yarn back, but she was happy to do it. I was happy to. Then while I was there I bought a skein of black Zap. I think it will look good on the brim of my next Bucket-O-Chic, which will be dark brown and black. I did knit up one hat with those colors to go with my winter coat, but I didn't like the way it looked, so I think I will frog it and stick with the tried and true Bucket.

Living Room Arranging

In an effort to get ready for the Christmas tree, yesterday I worked on rearranging the living room to accomadate to new December addition to the room. I worked and reworked the room which was not easy with the very heavy modular couch we have. I found an arrangement that I really liked, although it wasn't perfect. I like to keep the modular pieces together to the point of, if need be, having the furniture stick out in the middle of the room creating a hallway-effect on the opposite side (this probably makes no sense to anyone not familiar with our living room). Pete does not like this effect. When he got home last night he started moving things around, he now has all 3 pieces of the modular couch broken up and sort of scattered around the room. I don't like it, not at all. It makes it not as cozy to cuddle up on the couch. I suppose I will try to live with it, it's only for a month. Either that or we will break down and get the 2 futons that we want to get *someday*. But really I don't see that happening, so I will just live with it.

Icord

Yesterday I started working on the Icord for the Booga J bag that is on the needles right now. One thing that I have found is that it seems much easier to do the Icord at the beginning of the bag than at the end. I don't know why, but it just is. I finished the cord for the wip bag and even today whipped through the cord for the purple/colorlash bag that has been finished for a weeks - all except the cord!

I'm hoping that I have enough wool for all the bags I still need to make.