I've been on a scarf knitting kick lately- I love the feel of this cotton yarn and it's candy colors.
I read about a kind of knitting called "condo knitting". I do not know why it's called that- it was big back in the 70's. You use one BIG needle and one smaller needle to get kind of an open scarf pattern.
You can knit up a scarf really fast. I made this one in about 3 hours last night.
Why, in the middle of summer would I want to be making scarves? Well, besides that the fact that I'm addicted to knitting- my backyard looks like this- not a great place to spend summer.
We had our foundation reinforced a couple of years ago, which led to a messy backyard, having a bad patio put in and drainage problems. We had multipe issues to address and it seems like its taken forever to find someone to fix them that we thought was competant. (I'm crossing my fingers that this works.) So this is what your backyard looks like when someone spends a whole Sunday driving over it with a bobcat. The sound of a bobcat is also a very good alarm for a Sunday afternoon nap.
So, besides knitting, I've been selling on eBay like a big dog- selling for sod is how I think of it- and then it'll be selling for deck money. I seem to be much more motivated to push myself to list things on ebay when I have a goal in mind.
SO- if you're going to sell on ebay, you have to have something good to sell- so of course, I went to an auction. I'm actually not going to show you the stuff that I got to sell on ebay- it's boring (to me at least)- Norwegian pewter, DAR ribbons, old chauffers badges. But someone will want it...sometimes people ask me what I sell on eBay, and my answer is usually "anything I can make money on- except drugs and porn". I'm not even sure that the porn part is true- last week I sold some Vargas pin up calendars. Maybe I need to change that to "anything except drugs and HARDCORE porn".
So- at the auction, I did manage to find a few things that I'll keep for myself.
The piece on the right is a Victorian match safe. The piece on the left, I believe, is part of a woman's chatelaine. According to Wikipedia, a chatelaine is "a set of short chains on a belt worn by women and men for carrying keys, thimble and/or sewing kit, etc".
This opens to show celluloid calendar pages. This one only has four days- apparently the Victorians had short weeks.
I also snagged this hat with gorgeous velvet roses for The Hat Whisperer herself (Karla). And now, I better get back to making sod money.
