Side Sleeper, Stole & Sewing Expo

Today's subject is brought to you by the letter: S

Sleeping. Stole. Sewing, S

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I sleep on my side, but sometimes I don't know what to do with my arms. I put them straight out, or I cross them with my hands on opposite shoulders or around my waist, and sometimes I manage to put an arm asleep and then have to move it around to get rid of the pins and needles.

At my age, I have spend approximately 118, 930 hours or 4,955 days or 13.6 years asleep. How come I don't know what to do with my arms when I sleep on my side? Does anyone else have that problem?

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In Knitting news - I finished my Fern Leaf Stole last night, here's progress from early June 2007 and details when I started it last February. At first I thought I had been working on it for a year and a half, but JP said it wasn't that long, so I went through my old blog posts - that's another great thing about craft blogs isn't it? Archiving all your work. I actually feels good to see all that I have done in the past year.

During the first half of the stole, I'd sometimes get lost in the lace pattern, but by the last half, I don't think I made any mistakes, it came so easy. I almost had the whole 12 row pattern memorized, just a little reminder was all that was needed. It is 75" long, 24" wide and made up of approximately 45, 000 stitches. (7 sixteen stitch pattern repeats = 112 stitches in a row, 33 twelve row pattern repeats= 396)

I went from having one very large ball of yarn, which JP called the "space ball" because it was the size of a medium watermelon, and I am left with a small ball, around the size of a medium naval orange (maybe even a bit smaller than that).

And I actually have no knitting UFOs (un-finished objects). Can you believe that? What kind of knitter am I?

Oh I have projects to get started, but nothing unfinished on my needles.

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In Crafting news - I'm going to the Sewing and Craft Expo at the Tradex in Abbotsford this afternoon. Most of the courses are for sewing, but there is one on needle felting which I will take at 2:15. Otherwise, in the past, most of my fun is in the booths - that's were all the knitting and crafting goodness can be found. As well, my mind gets blown by the most amazing sewing machines - so incredible, I often lose interest in hand embroidery for a few days. What's the point? These machines can do such incredible work! One CD/DVD and voila! incredible creations. Now if I only had a spare two or three thousand dollars lying around.