Knot Knecessarily Known Knitting

It looks like we might hit our first freeze later this week. As the weather cools in Atlanta, thoughts turn to unfinished sweaters. There's a beautiful Bohus Forest Darkness that has been hibernating for awhile in my unfinished objects. According to my Ravelry notes, I started the sweater in the spring of 2015. The colorwork progressed nicely. The problem was when I got to the plain part. I worked the directions for the smallest size and discovered the smallest size is too big for me. I ripped back to the colorwork — thank goodness I put in a dental floss lifeline — and plopped the project back into a Longaberger picnic basket. I determined in order to finish the sweater, I would probably need a mannequin sized to my own body, so I could adjust fit as I knit. At one point Jenna from The Whole Nine Yarns helped me make a mannequin from an old t-shirt and duct tape. After my Aunt Carol passed away last year. I acquired her adjustable sewing mannequin. So ...

Now that Yarn is over, I've shifted focus to what is happening in my own home. I spent the last week or so organizing the stash. This required two trips to Ikea. I'm not completely finished, but I have corralled most of the yarn, fiber, and craft supplies (including the beads) into one room. This involved moving some stash out of the master bedroom. I don't even remember why there was stash there, other than it must have been when I first started knitting, since most of it was very old stash. In the process of doing that, I discovered moth damage. The basket isn't even in my Ravelry projects, as it was executed B.R. (before Ravelry). It is also B.B. (before blog). The pattern is Entrelac Tote by Melanie Smith marked "Revised 10/25/2005." It was probably in the very first order I ever made from Knit Picks. I recall it being a very fun knit that I worked up almost immediately. In fact, it was so much fun that I ordered 2 more skeins of spruce, 2 more skein...