Thank you all for the comments and emails. It’s so nice to feel cared about.

I feel better today. The fever seems to be gone, but I’m keeping an eye on it. My abdominal pain is all but gone. I’m supremely tired, but I feel ok. I’m optimistic.

Yesterday afternoon, I perused the stash and saw two skeins of soft, heathered purple wool without a label that I know I’ve had for 5 years or so, but have no idea where it came from… wait a minute…

Upon typing that last paragraph, I remembered that I used this yarn to knit thrummed mittens way back when Stephanie had her knitalong, so I went to my archives and happened to guess the correct time period. Apparently, I bought the yarn label-less for cheap out of the sale bin at my LYS that is no longer in business. Mystery solved. The funny part is, that the entry I read made mention of “that brief, humorous, and now frequently joked about period of time that I thought I was going to learn to spin.”

That’s really funny.

I mean, it’s totally cracking me up.

Getting back to my original story, I looked in the stash, saw the pretty purple, and decided to whip out Veronica’s legwarmers. She was at school so I couldn’t measure her, but I’d deliberately looked at her leg recently. I held the yarn doubled and cast onto size 10.5 needles 24 stitches. (24. Because she’s dinky. I’ve been calling her my itty-bitty-midget for a couple of weeks). I knit 42 rounds, bound of with a picot, knit the second one like it, and after sleeping in them last night, the mini munchkin wore them to school.

So I’ve checked that off my list, happily. This morning, I finally set the twist on my handspun designated for Liv’s legwarmers, and while I was at it, I did the same for my lovely silk/camel laceweight before taking an artsy picture.

Minimal physical exertion was required. And it may be the most productive thing I do with my day, outside of knitting, don’t worry.

I don’t know what to knit today without going to the yarn store. Liv has changed her requested sweater from a striped hoodie to that gorgeous, cabled yolk sweater in the Tahki Stacy Charles ad in the latest IK. It’s an adult sweater, so it’ll take some modifying, and I want to raise the horizontal band up so the sleeve joins the sweater closer to her armpits if possible, but I know that could be tricky.

In the meantime, I’m probably going to end up going back to the stash to try to come up with something to do with my day.

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