It's Officially Fall

Not only have the neighborhood kids gone back to school, but …

I have had to get up in the middle of the night to put on my robe and close the window.

I have had to eat indoors for two nights in a row.

It is still dark when I wake up to blog.

I’ve ordered all my airline tickets for the entire rest of the year. Four sets, all to California. (I should just move there.)

I’m thinking about making wool sweaters with sleeves.

The new crummy shows are starting and the good summer cable ones are ending. (The Closer on TNT).

More Netflix movies are showing up in my mailbox.

I am wearing socks daily and soon will be pulling out my wool ones.

The last bolt of silk for the year has been ordered.

Hot tea is replacing iced tea.

Dieting is back in a big way.

My Ralph Lauren jeans are my daily uniform again.

Real estate taxes and quarterlies are due in a few weeks. Ugh

I’m back to making new samples for classes.

Yup, it’s time to think about quilting again. But the new acid dyes I ordered will show up on Monday, so there might be one or two more wool-dyeing days ahead. My pattern bags are here and ready for new patterns to fill them. Just have to make the new patterns. I know what they will be, and they are on my to-do list for next week. Schedules become more important in the fall, don’t they? And aren’t we sort of ready for a bit more organization and purpose for the days ahead? I am talking myself into this. Can you tell?

I dyed this wool today, while I was figuring out ticketing, flight departures and arrivals. I get very tense when buying tickets and did have to cancel a set, just in time not to get charged. Now that is all over and I am breathing a sigh of relief. The wool is from a sweater I disassembled from Goodwill. It cost $1.99 and is about 1400 yards.

The dye was garage sale Kiton as previously mentioned and worked just fine. The blue clumped up in solution and never really dissolved, making it very uneven in the dyebath. So the blue parts are much more variegated than intended. Do I care? Nope. That's what dyeing is all about. Surrenduring to the dye.

Now I am going to wind it into cakes and swatch it up with big needles. It will knit as bulky, since it was double stranded in the original sweater.

Yup, it's fall.