Melissa Sue’s Craft Corner

I just cannot seem to keep up with everything going on in my life.  I guess I just need to relax and not stress everything so much, but I feel bad when I let things slide.  Like right now I have a hamper full of clean clothes sitting right next to the closet - do you think I could take the 5 minutes it would take to put them away so that the pile of dirty clothes could go in the hamper?  If you guessed no then you would be right.  On top of that I have yarn and needles strewn all over my room from all the swatching I have been doing for the shawl KALs I have joined.  It would only take a half hour or so to put them all away, but again it doesn’t happen.  What is wrong with me - I am stressing out about everything and cannot seem to deal with a single bit of it.  I hope it is just a May thing and that June will be better.

I have managed to keep to my schedule for school while still working, knitting and watching movies.  I did manage to restart Cozy, work on Sunset Seraphim (kept to the 2 rows a day) and Mystic Light, swatch for Mystic Meadows and tried out several lace stitches for a shawl I am attempting to design for my Dream In Color Baby in Gothic Rose (I have 2 skeins which is 1400 yards and I have a picture in my mind, but cannot find the stitches I need - maybe I should get one of the Barbara Walker books).  I managed to find the needle for BILs scarf - this whole time it has been in my car under the edge of the floor mat.  So that didn’t get worked on as I found the needle last night - maybe tomorrow night as I have a movie to watch.  I did frog back Natalie’s sweater so now I just need to try it again and try to get the floats the right amount of loose, but not too loose - I may put in a lifeline in the last plain round so that if I have to frog back it is not such a problem.  Dad goes out of town tomorrow until the 7th and I plan on getting the other sock OTN so that I can knit them at the same time (so I don’t have to make notes) and working on them everyday until he comes back.  I also want to get my curtains made as that was one of the things I did not get done over the weekend.  Then I also need to get photos, paper, and other supplies together since mom and I are going to a scrapbook crop Friday night.  The room needs to be done as well as touching up the bathroom since we are having a couple of coworkers over on Sunday for a BBQ.  Plus I am sure there are several other things I need to do - the biggest one right now is getting to bed since I open in the morning.  So I will let ya’ll go tonight and get back with ya’ll soon.