I love fall. The colors and cooler weather somehow seem to wake me up. I feel more energized and ready to get things done, which is why I'm going to tackle some cleaning today. My mom let me borrow her sprayer, so I'm going to fill it with bleach water and spray the shutters and the underside of the back porch's roof. Then I'm going to do dishes, as there is a mountain of them. After that I'll make some progress on the living room, because if anyone walked in he or she would think we had just moved in last week, instead of almost a year ago. This isn't what I actually want to be doing, of course.
What I had rather do is sit around and work on my knit list. I have several projects on the needles and more I want to start. I'm working on a shawl for my friend in Kentucky. We're doing a craft swap: she's beading me earrings, a bracelet, and a lanyard and I'm knitting her a shawl. She already sent me the lanyard, so I have to get more progress made. I'm also working on a knit dress. It started off as a sweater, but yesterday I changed my mind about what it should look like. So, here goes messing with a pattern, which is scary. Extreme knitting...off road knitting...I don't know. I also have a cabled sweater I've started but it's hard to tell if I'm doing it right, so I'm going to do a couple more inches to see. I hope I don't have to rip it out. I also want to start some baby things for a friend of mine. I'm so excited to get to knit things for a baby girl! There are some cute things for little boys, but I love girl colors and delicate lace features.
So. My motivation for getting all that cleaning done is the fun I can have later with my yarn. And a canvas, too. I'm going to try some melted crayon art for the classroom. I saw it on Pintrest, and it looks interesting. You glue some unwrapped crayons to the bottom of a canvas, turn it upside down, and blast it with a hairdryer. I'm using shades of green, and I'm going to hot glue little fall colored silk flowers to the tops so the streaks look like stems. That's what it looked like the person who posted it had done. If it doesn't suck, I'll put some pics up later. We'll see.
