Day 61 of 2024

My brain is all over the place today. 

I wanted to go upstairs and cut the new pieces I need to swap a color in my temperature quilt 

and also look for an appropriate fabric to fussy cut for the February window. 

But wait, first I need to clean up the dishes from dinner. Ok, done. 

But wait, I forgot I have fabric in the washer that needs to be put in the dryer

 and fabric that needs to go into the washer. 

Fabric? Oh, yeah. I bought a cute kit for a Halloween table runner

 that I'd like to be ready to make so I'm preparing the fabric. 

Oh, yeah, the pattern was missing a page and I contacted the maker

 to see if I could get the missing page.

 Let me check my email to see if she wrote me back. 

I finally got upstairs and remembered 

that I wanted to look for the knitting needles that I need

 to start a Halloween hat for which I bought a kit last weekend. 

I found four of the one size I need and none of the other. 

I weigh the pros and cons of just using the one size that I found. 

I read through the pattern again and am very confused by the sizing and gauge. 

I do some math to see if I can make it work anyway. 

My conclusion is to cast on and see what happens. 

I pick the shiniest of the needles as the yarn will slide best on it. 

I begin the cast on and the first round with the black yarn provided 

and realize I will need my light to see. 

I set up my neck light and now I have a terrible glare 

from the light hitting the shiny needle. 

I will stop for the night and knit the next round onto one of the other three needles

 which will hopefully not create a glare. 

Now it's very late and I just remembered that I need to go switch the laundry again.

How did I start my evening? Oh, yeah, I need to cut out new fabric. 

Maybe tomorrow.