 hey guys yes i'm aware it's dark um it's just after six o'clock we are headed home from the kids house um hanging out with them today and grandson the girls and i sorry hold on okay the girls and i went thrifting and and ticking i didn't buy much about a couple things but anyway um oh that's fun truck blocking the entire road um the boys did some electrical work at the house while we did basically no i don't think so basically stayed out of their way and um just did some stuff just us just the girls so anyway uh literally a truck blocking the roadway uh anyway we're um headed home now um we've been there all day and we're gonna go home and stuff relax yeah um yeah i'm not super hungry i'll probably just have bone broth but yeah we're gonna we're gonna go do that and then tomorrow first thing i need to change some appointments so we can do mother and laws from memorial and um i need to do some work creating social media posts that um need to be scheduled for the first march and i'll probably go ahead and do april's too and all of that jazz so tomorrow's going to be kind of a busy day i'll be back good morning everybody it's 10 12 am monday february something i don't know let's see 26 um i did all the non fun stuff well not all of it most of it chores dishes laundry cleaned and rearranged the kitchen counters that's going to confuse mr bob but you know needed to be done updated the family calendar rearranged some appointments um mr bob's got to make some phone calls today yeah so i need to edit the vlog still i need to work on the march april daily drawing sketchbook and the march and maybe april social media posts and patreon posts um and posts in rt trio which i'm always forgetting till the last minute and then i'm gonna start taking some of my hexagons and seeing if i can lay out a pullover type sweater maybe something with a little bit of a turtleneck maybe um otherwise i'm just gonna start sewing it together and making a blanket i don't know but anyway first i'm gonna sit here and watch some youtube and finish my coffee which i still haven't done yet all right let's get that done i'll be back okay guys so my iphone which i film on most of the time is no longer syncing to my desktop iMac via bluetooth so i have to plug it in which we are right now and try to get the video footage from here to there which plugged in over a chord takes five times longer than over bluetooth why i don't know the iCloud like the two aren't syncing at all iCloud's not working like or i shouldn't say that it is working but it's super slow probably because of the desktop is really old but that's the thing so anyway we will get that done at some point today hopefully then i have to work on the word lists and posts at least for march first all right i'll be back okay guys so it's after six i keep doing this but i don't have my fitbit on today um i just know it's after six let's see six thirty five and i just got two more crochet patterns written and they will be posted later on tonight i think to patreon or sometime tomorrow i have my hexes half hexes and triangles safety pinned together to form a sweater which i will be trying to start sewing together tonight um all the little pieces are all safety pinned together it's going to be one of those projects with five million like ends to hide but what are you going to do anyway i'm going to try to hide what i can as i'm sewing things together which is i think a smart idea but we'll see and um i've got this giant pile of stuff i've got to take downstairs that all this um got my sketchbook for march ready all the things i made some copies out of a library book and my pile of granny squares hexagons and stuff is like it's big but anyway we're gonna go downstairs now i think it's time it's black outside we had a couple bouts of sunshine and the rest of it was like hail snow and pouring rain like just somebody dumping buckets on the house it's the weirdest thing anyway all right i think that's it for the minute yeah i can't think of anything else and there's probably stuff downstairs that i haven't gotten done yet but we'll go do it now i'll be back hey guys so it is tuesday morning not baby sitting today baby sitting tomorrow and thursday um i think it's just before just before lunch i think anyway i spent last night and this morning crocheting my hexagons together along with a few of the half hexes and rectangles to create a sweater hold on and it's looking pretty good yes i have five million of these to tie off and weave in which i'll be doing after lunch i don't want to start on the bottom they'll be ribbing on the bottom the neckline and then i'm going to actually add a few rows probably of granny stitch to the sleeves before i do a cuff even for me they're a little bit short so i'll probably do like three or four inches and then put a cuff um i think that's the easiest way rather than doing some more jigsaw puzzling with the granny hexes to try to get it a better length anyway and i think for the neckline i might do a turtleneck i don't know we'll see um but yeah it's looking pretty good i am going to call it my chaos sweater i do attach my um granny squares hexagons whatever usually with single crochet through the back loop and then you get this sort of look which i really like and i used one of i was going to use a plain yarn i decided we're already calling it the chaos sweater so a little color doesn't make any difference so i used one of the variegated ones i had one that had this blues creams and grazing it um and i used the leftover of the pinking oh excuse me pink and yellow one oh shivers um i did that to sew things together so it's looking pretty good but now we've got to i have to do something about all the loose ends before we do any ribbing or anything else so but first lunch i'll be back okay you guys so i don't normally do this but i mean wearing turtlenecks but i just finished i spent the afternoon crocheting i mean i should have been running errands and going dropping off books at the library and stuff like that but anyway that's not what happened it took me like an hour and a half or two hours to weave in all the thread ends that i had to start with now i've got a few new ones but anyway i got that done then i started working on the collar first sort of playing yarn chicken because i have of the three colors of bloom i have i have one color that i don't remember the name right now but i'll put it right here um that's a little planer than the others i was going to use that for the cuffs and collar because this sweater is so busy i know i'm calling it my chaos sweater but yeah um so i spent the day doing the collar first because i know that was probably going to be the biggest piece of ribbing because i kind of wanted to do it as a turtleneck even though i just said i don't really wear them that often i might need to wish that it snows again i'm not done yet but how cute is that you guys i mean i haven't shown the husband yet but i like it i don't even ski or anything because oh i'm not allowed to do dangerous things i'm too clumsy yeah it's on i don't think so list but i could see sitting out on the patio somewhere where it's snowy with a couple hot chocolate wearing this i mean you know super cute okay now to finish it we've got to do the sleeves i added four rows to the bottom of everything that was going on on the sleeves four rows of sort of a granny type stitch i thought that was better than playing hexi puzzling um when you lay out a sweater like that this it's sort of like doing a jigsaw puzzle you have to first of all you need to know your measurements and or have a mannequin that's approximately your size which i do and i pin started pinning the hexis uh to the mannequin and then figured out i needed a few half hexis and triangles to make it work um and i i used the you know fancy like sewing clips initially and then i took it off of the before i took it off of the mannequin i decided to switch to something much more affordable cheaper it's the thing i have 20 tons of safety pins you guys can just use safety pins once you get it all um safety pin together then you can pull it off your mannequin or pull it off the table and start turn it inside out and start sewing it together it's all it's really that easy but how cute is that i'm really enjoying making my own clothes that's not bad is it okay i'll be back hey guys it is thursday uh i don't even know the 29th yeah the 29th um it's about lunch time i don't think i filmed it all yesterday um i was babysitting yesterday as i am today if you hear noises in the background we're sitting here having lunch trying to eat our bananas um there was just a lot going on yesterday with um bob's mom's passing and everything else and there's it's going to be a hectic couple of weeks i'm not sure how much of them it i'm going to get filmed and i don't know when the vlog's going to come out um i'm going to respect privacy and not film too much but uh yeah so just bear with me um i'll try to get something out on time but anyway i did spend last night working on the next cardigan sweater project part of which i'm going to film for youtube and i've already written a pattern for patrons and supporters um so that's ready to be filmed i got done in advance what i wanted to so hopefully i can get that done before we leave for california somebody needs to eat his bananas yes okay so anyway um that's all that's going on at the minute tomorrow is family dinner and then um we have some errands to run we've got to pick up a few things for california we leave a week from today so there's kind of a lot to do before we do that so anyway anyway anyway yeah so anyway i am going to enjoy the moments like this one while i can and i'll be back okay grandson has gone home and babysitting is over for the week they will be over of course for family dinner tomorrow but i won't be babysitting they're just over to have dinner anyway um so i am going to put the diaper changing station away and then start working on a new sweater project so anyway all right that's it for the minute hey guys i was just putting my crochet away for the evening um bob is off at his masonic meeting and um i'm doing a new pattern it's called the boyfriend sweater or the boyfriend cardigan i'll link the pattern down below so far so good but i barely got started um but i want to talk to you about is i had three of these karen blossom cakes in my stash of stuff and it's a cotton acrylic blend and we know my love hate relationship with the cotton but this is a blend 61 cotton 39 acrylic you guys i love the way it feels it's nice and stretchy it's not too heavy and the color the color of this one i love the color the color on this one is radiant rainbow and so yeah so pretty anyway i'll love the way it's turning out i'm working on the back piece first this one is not done in the round it does have seams but um yeah i like it so far so far so good it does look like it's a blown in fiber into a i don't know will it show you the mesh tube so i don't know if the tube is the cotton or the tube is the acrylic i don't know but i don't think i care it's machine washable and dryable not that i'll put it in the dryer but it's got a thumbs up for me is it thin enough to make a summer sweater out of i don't know i think good groundstone scratched me today oh that's great um i don't know but i do enjoy working with it and it is a good sweater for wearables so i yeah i'd love to get some more of it but we'll see all right i've been checking online at some different places and looks like nobody's got it in stock so there's that all right i'll be back good morning folks it is 10 18 a.m friday march first um i better check on my rc trio post it should have gone up a minute ago anyway uh obviously i'm in the car it takes me a few minutes now to get started because i got to figure out the radio every time but anyway um i woke up with a headache while neck egg this morning um probably from babysitting yesterday so for those that don't know 30 ish 31 almost years ago um i was in a head-on collision with a driver who ran a red light when i was pregnant with our daughter and um i still to this day have periodic problems with my neck today is one of those days so i started off my day with just sitting and chilling with coffee doing some stretches and then taking a nice long hot shower and then before i left the house just now having a couple of apricots dried apricots and then some calcium and some Tylenol i don't take those like on i have to at least have like a little snack or submit my stomach so anyway now we're gonna go out and run some errands grab some charcuterie pizza for tonight probably go thrifting because i've got time and all the things i'll be back when you have to go back and check your camera roll because you're not sure if you've logged that's probably not a great sign but anyway good morning everybody it's saturday morning it is i don't know what time it is let's see 10 26 a.m um i'm wearing my new sweater as you can see i love it it's the high today is going to be 40 degrees which might be a little warm for me to wear this sweater but i'm gonna wear it anyway um we're gonna go out thrifting this and antiquing this morning we they're having a charity book drive thing at my husband's masonic lodge for kids books so we're gonna go out and look for some books um we're gonna we're choosing to thrift or antique them rather than buy them new because that's what we do for lots of reasons but um um we can also buy a few more books that way so we're gonna go do that and then he's got a key to lodge building so we will leave the books at the lodge and put a note um we posted mom's obituary to social media this morning and it's being printed in local newspapers in california tomorrow um yeah it's been a weird week so and the next few weeks will be weird so that's going to be a thing anyway i'm going to probably end next week's vlog early probably on our drive down i'm not going to film any of the other stuff because that's just too personal i hope you guys all understand um but i will try to film some creative content for the vlog or separate i'm not sure as time allows before we leave so we'll see what happens but anyway loving wearing this i don't have and speaking of this i have a bunch of mini skeins upstairs of different natural fiber contents you know whether i do it on the road trip to california or not i am going i pulled them all off my storage today and i'm going to wind them into balls and i'm going to make hexagons with them and i'm going to turn them into maybe a cardigan i'm not sure yet but i'm going to i'm really getting the impulse that i want to do something like this with them so i'm going to do that they're all different colors some neutral colors some wild colors so yeah i like that idea so anyway i'll take you with us this morning we're going to go back to the little schoolhouse antique mall place that i went to with the girls last weekend there's a furniture place next door to it that i didn't go into so we might go in there we have this wall here in the family room with um the tv on it we kind of want to add well we me i kind of want to add bookshelves to the wall turn it into a library wall with storage on the bottom and books on the top still have thomas's things out here for right now but yeah so i don't know exactly how to accomplish that but going into the furniture part of the antique mall might give me some ideas so we'll see i don't know it's not why we're going out shopping today but you know all right and all the extra packaging materials from the etsy shop that i've saved i guess they're going to come in handy because we're bringing them to california to pack up the things that are coming back up north to organ with us from mom's house so this is a part of somebody passing by the way that i hate going through their things i really detest it but anyway all right that's it for the minute let's see what kind of fun stuff we can get up to before dealing with all that other stuff all right i'll be back okay bob's downstairs watching tv and as you saw i was winding up some mini skeins that i've been collecting honestly for a while and they're all wool wool blend yarns um marino and summer marino and silk and summer i think just wool hang on i'll look summer marino and silk and some are superwash wool and nylon they're thin yarns usually intended for socks curses is me it's not what i'm going to do with them i'm actually going to make some little oh let's be real probably hexagons i probably should do squares but probably not going to anywhere i'm going to do them out of these fancy yarns i'm gonna um my goal is i think we're going to be doing a lot of traveling coming up um not just for the obvious um bob's mom's estate and stuff um and my goal is to collect like a mini skein from each place we go if possible and assemble them into some kind of a little sweater t-shirt cardigan something like that we'll see what happens with it but i like the idea of having these little small balls of kind of unique yarns and making them into something wearable so i probably will do that and um it all fits in a little project bag which i can bring with me on the road that's going to be a good road trip um project uh along with the cardigan i'm currently working on downstairs if i'm not done with that so hold on hold on i know all all right so that's all done um i'm gonna late start today and um there's there's a lot to do you guys there's a lot to do meanwhile my office my table is kind of a mess there's yeah i've got that i'm gonna get done what i can before we leave but there's just no way i'm gonna get it all done so we'll see what happens i am babysitting tuesday and then the kids and us are all driving down and uh yeah anyway i wish i could say it's been a fun week there's been fun moments there's been joyful moments there's been funny times when we remember things about mom i called her mom um that made us all laugh um there's been shocking moments where we paid for the obituary and discovered how much it was sandals a mercury news what are you doing oh my god so expensive if you know you know oh my god um but anyway it we're still standing we're still strong we're still together as a family and i'm going to do what i can to support bob um in his time and if you guys have any tips or tricks for me let me know um he's been this through this with me a few times i've only done this with him once when his dad passed and as i remember it i didn't know what to do then things have not changed it's just not easy no wonder what what way you wrap your mind around it first you have the loss of the person and then you have all the estate and the paperwork and the legal stuff and thankfully his brother is like executor so he's handling a lot of it that doesn't mean bob has nothing to do so i'm just keeping busy and being supportive i think that's all i can do anyway give your loved ones a hug um try to do something good for yourself because you do deserve it and appreciate every moment don't forget to like share and subscribe relevant links and ways to support the free content of my channel are down below in the video description including my designs over at art foamy's my designs over at rubber moon stamps and my patreon i am going to be filming some of putting this sweater together for patreon we're going to do a few how-to things like how to make a red heart rectangle um with the red heart all in one granny square yarn here for youtube um but if you want the pattern for the sweater and the video and a bunch of other stuff you guys don't see over here on this channel because they have their own private youtube channel let me know and um yeah go subscribe to my patreon that reminds me i think i have some people to update on that list all right that's it for the minute i'll be back i'll be back i won't be back i'll be back next week anyway go out and just enjoy life take a deep breath and you know life's too short just not to have fun today i wore my granny hexi chaos sweater and i got lots of comments and questions about it and i said you know when i turned 60 i just decided i'm gonna wear what i want now i don't care what anybody thinks and there was a number ladies my age and older they're like good for you i love your sweater so anyway go out and have a good day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it i'll see you guys next week bye guys