Busy busy

There I go again, not posting for a long time. I have been busy the past few weeks with a plethora of job interviews (yay! finally!), job hunting, packing, and more.

I was commissioned to make two baby blankets. A while back I made a baby blanket for my mother, who wanted to give it to the great-grandmother of a new baby. The grandmother loved the blanket and asked me if I take commissions (get paid to do something I love to do? Are you crazy?). I told her I would take commissions, as long as the yarn was paid for and I got a fee. She bought the yarn for two blankets and patterns! Nice stuff, too. I set aside the almost-finished baby dress again to work on them. I will try to take pictures to post at some point this week. No promises - I have to pack my room up in case I have to move quickly. Plus work on two baby blankets.

I love the first blanket's yarn: Bernat Cottontots in pink and white yarns. The cotton is different from working with blends; less give, but very soft.

I am angry about the second blanket's yarn: Nice yarn but it's covered in little tuffs of stuff every few yards, which it is not supposed to have. I contacted Bernat about it, but have yet to hear back from them. I may try taking it to Michael's to complain and try to get a refund (then purchase a different dye lot of the same stuff! Down side of letting her pick the yarn). I have only started balling the first skein, so maybe they will take it back and deal with returning to the manufacturer themselves.

I went to the beach with a friend today. We drove to Yorktown Beach. The traffic on I64 became atrocious 10 miles before our exit, so we got off and took the scenic way in. Totally worth it. Yorktown is so cute and full of little roads and old houses and cute shops! There was a fiber shop down the block from the beach! It was small and didn't hold a lot, but it had spinning wheels, two large looms in the back with "if you touch it you finish it" signs, bags of fiber sold by the pound, and a few skeins of dye-ready yarn. Lot's of books and hooks and needles. I may have to go back, especially since I want to go back to Yorktown with my camera. I brought my camera, but was too lazy to take it out more than once. I got pictures of a boat and one beach shot. But I was there to relax and play in the water, so the camera stayed safely packed away from the sand.

Only trouble was with the clear jellyfish that kept coming into the water every time there were few people in the water. I got stung a few times. It wasn't too bad, but annoying to have to swim away from those beasts. I couldn't see half of them in the brackish water. There was one really big one that belonged at the Baltimore aquarium! Sorry, no pics - not taking the camera into the water!

I may be moving in the next month, so posting may continue to be sporadic. I will say that if I do, I am very much looking forward to it!