Thread:OriginalAmber/@comment-26424426-20160128033630/@comment-26443914-20160128183326

No need to apologize for anything! I'll be a bit of ghost for a while. My poor biz needs my attention.

Show season starts in 5 weeks and I don't have nearly enough inventory. I haven't wanted to go out in the garage and dye; it's frigid out there! It's so much more than just putting yarn in a pot. I buy the yarn in cones ~ 1, 3, and 6 pounds. All those cones need to be broken down into 4 ounce skeins. If it's really fine yarn, they get broken down into 2 ounce skeins. The fiber is generally bought in 22 pound "bumps". Each of those need to be broken down into 4 ounces. That's a lot of 'breaking down'. I've just gotten started on that last week. It's something I really need to do an a weekly basis. Except when there are SS challenges and I have to do GM 100 times!

We're getting new floors upstairs on the 4th. The big spare room is really a stash room. I have to clean and get everything up off the floor. I'm out of stash room! Where am I going to put all my yarns, fibers, kits.... Where are my 250+ knitting books going to go? Half of them are in the master bath right now, but I'm running out of room there too.

And my really big secret: I'm working on a book. I had the name picked out already and someone took it! It's a German word, what are the chances of someone using it already!! The book is for my mom and it's all about my memories of living in Germany when I was young. Every single pattern has some connection to Germany. THAT is going to be a lot of work but I'm looking forward to it. That's why no one has heard from me since yesterday.

I'll try not to be a stranger. I tend to get involved and completely lose track of time. I'll think I haven't posted in 2 days...it will be more like a week. Especially when I'm designing. Hubby finally realizes to leave me alone when I have yarn and needles in one hand, pattern books strewn everywhere, a really big eraser and my graph paper out.

Here's my very first design. It won't be included in the book, but this is the kind of desiging I'm doing. Terrible pic but you can sort of see the design: