Spinnin' Yarns

My car caught fire today.

while I was driving... I was trying to make it to the LYS and I smelled something odd... hoped it wasn't my car, and within 20 seconds the car was filled with smoke!

Thank heavens my kids weren't in there--

I stopped 50 feet from the LYS (lol) and the lady in the insurance place called 911 for me, I was trying to stop, roll down the windows, get into a legal parking spot (why the eff was that important to me? Sigh) AND put it in park... I got out and the entire inside was smoke-filled. I feel like my lungs are singed (the firefighters didn't offer me oxygen, wish they had).

So fortunately we got a flexcar membership last week. (!)

Dh got a car and brought the kids out and I was able to run my errands (and I know that you guys will in no way judge me when after the firefighters left, but before dh and the tow truck came, I ran up to the LYS still coughing and got the hairpin lace loom I was after)

And, as it turns out, the stupid car issue? The ahole who sold it to us a couple of years ago had a fancy stereo in it that he didn't want to give us with the car, so he'd gotten his "friend" to take it out and put the standard one in--and the idiot left the amp wire "hot" and we're very, very lucky that the entire car didn't melt down.

Oy.

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ds's tshirt (Jelly Legs jinx)

I think the feather is a bit off... sigh... perhaps I'll give this one to my less busty sister...I made two, not sure if the other is as bad...

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scarf for Auntie (my kids started it. I did most of it on the loom. Ugh. Of course taking it off and finding needles and replicating the odd twistiness that is loom knitting would've been a bigger pain.

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wand cozy

expecto patronum tshirt for dd (I also made a jelly legs jinx shirt for ds, but no pic of it)

Puffskein

and here are some non-HP things:

Circular needle holder

batik skirt I made from an old pareo, my favorite one

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I've made two puffskeins (will post pics later) as well as a wand cozy for Sabrina and more book marks

So I started a stichionery belt, and need to rush through because I want the needles for something else ;-)

And I want to make the moorish beach tunic in the IC

and I'm still working on the lace of Marta, which I want to work on ITR until the arms

And I'm doing the back and bottom part of my soy silk shell as planned, but the gauge is the same as Isabella, so I'm going to try that for the neckline.

Man, I need more time and extra arms to knit. And crochet. Oh, I'm wrestling with crochet/knitting for the plastic bag tote. Sigh.

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