Extreme Waiting Begins

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As of yesterday morning, I have been TAGGED by my team member Marie in Alabama. I am the last leg of the Dishrag Tag relay race from all over the US, and it is my job to “bring it home”. Being last has its advantages, (lots of time to practice your chosen dishrag for gauge and speed, and its disadvantages (like wearing a path in the carpet from pacing). Even the dog is weary. We knitters can really crank out a dishrag in record time if necessary, but it has been the USPS that has caused us to ponder our patience quota. Where normally I would have a lot of patience, in a race for time…well,…let’s just say we are all wondering what priority mail REALLY means. By the way, we do have a winning team, HIP-KNIT-TIZED, our first team to hit Emily’s mail box in Alabama and claim Dishrag Glory. ****Congratulations**** There are two more teams waiting to claim second and third place with individual contests still to be determined. The home of Dishrag Tag, www.YarnMiracle.com is just confetti-filled with good wishes. Amazingly enough, after two months of planning and playing, we still have not had enough……..so, if you find yourself still longing for more or just want to join in the fun, check this out and enter..LIKE FAST!!!! It ends tomorrow, Sept. 7th at 12:00 CST. SO GO NOW, ALREADY, to ” Knitted GIVE-A-WAY Contest ll” at www.teatimerambings.blogspot.com and enter to win 5 knitted dishcloths in various colors and patterns. You can enter whether you have a blog or not, and while you are there leave a nice comment or two which is always appreciated by us bloggers.

Busy hands make waiting tolerable, and that’s where the mind can ponder a few side projects…only a few. Project number uno….the dining room drapes. I have had the fabric for a time, but the design was cooking in my brain. This weekend the design came together like gorgonzola cheese,thinly sliced pear, and spring greens lightly tossed with raspberry vinaigrette dressing. It flowed off the sewing machine and on to the wall, and is now a feast for the eye. They frame the folage out the window, especially the last of this summer’s sunflowers. Just Delicious! Fresh on the needles is project two, a Christmas stocking from a new book out featuring Plymouth yarn. The spiral bound jem, “Knit Noel” by Bobbie Matela, features over 30 enticing projects. I wanted to do them all. The stocking has a ribbing of tiny, easy to do, cables. I am working on the holly leaf band that runs around the top, and I am hot to get to the dot stitch leg portion.

About the mail???….it has come and gone,……no box today. All that food talk has just reminded me, did I have lunch yet? I think not. Off to scope out the selection of green and red food in the frig, which seems to be the color theme of this blog today. Ta-ta for now.

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