Loop the loop

All white cotton thread jewelry is still 25% in my shop on 1000 Markets.

At the First Saturday Arts Market in the Heights, all white cotton thread jewelry will be 25% off! Also a few select Valentiney things. Don’t miss it!

Today I finished ’shopping, I submitted for a juried show, and I updated the holy heck out of every site I could get my hands on. Now all I have to do is sync up the flash drive and update the everlasting To Do list…

I just spent a tiny fortune on some very fine fibers. This will be for an entry for the annual exhibit by the Texas Museum of Fiber Arts. I went to the opening gala last spring and had a marvelous time!

Let’s hope it gets me some juried shows!

Well, this is working well! Hand-dyed silk thread, hand-dyed silk charmeuse scarf.

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I just created a Facebook page for McCord Works. Let’s see how that goes. Hmm, need to update some links.

I see patterns for “fingerless” gloves and they annoy me. They’re tubes! That’s all! At least some knitters and crocheters have the sense to call them wristwarmers. I want actual gloves. And gloves are hard! You have to section off for each finger. There are several different ways to handle the thumb. These silly little tubes are not gloves. I’m not sure I could even call them mitts. Have some respect, grumble grumble.

I haven’t knit any gloves yet. I’m formulating my perfect pair of gloves, but heaven only knows when I’ll get them started, never mind finished.

• - Washable wool, sock to sport weight
• - Long enough to come up well onto my forearm
• - Thumb and first two fingers will have fingertips exposed, last two fingers will be completely covered
• - Pretty pattern that I can also use for the
• - Matching hooded scarf which I also haven’t designed yet

Sigh. Check back in a couple of years. These will be the best things ever, if I can get around to them.

Monday’s a holiday, and I’m taking off Friday and Tuesday to give myself five solid days of time to work. One of those days was going to be taken up with a day trip to San Antonio, but I’ve pretty well talked myself out of that now. If that happens, it’ll be on Sunday now.

There’s a very long to-do list. Tomorrow there will be dyeing of silk thread and scarves. Today there will be planning of just what and how much I want to do. And some shopping for supplies. And groceries. It’s such a glamorous life!

Tuesday is the reward: a trip to the salon to get my hair cut for the first time in forever! It’s already scheduled, so I hope I deserve the pampering for a job well done by then.