T stands for This and That

  Hi everyone. It is time for another week of T over at  Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog .  I hope everyone has had a nice week since we last met.

Last week was pretty quiet for me since I was dealing with covid. As some of you might have read, the worst of it was just how tired I was, along with too many red itchy hive welts on my skin (which luckily have gone away). The good news is I'm feeling like myself again. 😀 My husband also had covid (I think I caught it from him before he even knew he had it). That meant he worked from home for the last 2 weeks. He's also back on his feet and back to the office this week. ( 😀 again)  I feel like the first half of January just kind of slipped by in a blur, and here it is already the 15/16th of the month. 

One thing I did manage to do last week (and which should have only taken a day or 2 but took me 5+) was  a bit of art space cleaning.  I wish I had taken a photo of my before desk, which I couldn't use to make any art on as it was sooooo messy and had a mountain of things on it.

Here's my drink which is my ticket to T this week, along with my desktop. I don't know how long since it has been this clean, and it will probably not be this clean again in 2024.😏  I've since been making some art, and it is already not this clean again.  But it is definitely still cleaner than before I picked it up.

The little mini-tool chest on my desk was something my husband gave me for Christmas. The funniest part of that story was that my son-in-law, when he saw it, really wanted one for his pens, pencils etc. for his work desk. Who'd have thought? If we had known he would like one, we would have gotten him one for Christmas also. Of course, by the time Christmas came these little chests (which were something from Lowe's- a big box store  hardware chain) were sold out everywhere. After the holiday we were all on the hunt for them at various  stores, and finally  my son-in-law found one in Nashua (NH). He was told the only reason they had them is that somehow the pallet had never been put out on the shopping floor. Who'd have guessed these little boxes would have been so popular?

Anyhow, now everyone in the  whole family has one. My daughter and my husband decided they needed one also, so when my son-in-law got his, he was smart and picked them up for the others too. 👍

I mentioned last week that I ordered some new yarn to knit another sweater. It arrived this past Friday,  and here it is in all its glory.

You'll be seeing my latest progression at some point. 

Speaking of sweaters, I finally got my other one blocked, so it is now ready to wear. This past weekend I had my husband take some photos of me in it. I'll never make a good model, but I think this photo shows the sweater. 

My husband is not really a photographer either, and he's a foot taller than me, so how I thought he'd take the photo isn't what he did. But no problem, you can still see my sweater. 

I made the sweater on the bigger side, since if I want to wear it outside I might have some layers underneath it.  To do that I used the larger size on the pattern, and I didn't knit it quite to the length the pattern called for because I didn't want it hanging to my knees. I also played around with yoke design, using the basic design but changing up colors and also adding things to the pattern.

That's it for me this week. I hope everyone has a great T day and week ahead.