hat – Susan is Knitting….

Yes, that’s what I typed. WordPress Class. Over the past few years I’ve been taking online courses conducted by Gale Education (I think that’s their name but I’m sure it’s Gale at least). The courses are available using a library card and a local community college. It’s been quite a while since I’ve signed up and taken one of their 6-week courses so I went for a perusal session on my classroom site and found this one.

I have WordPress and have been using it for a few years. Right. Really, I have even if it doesn’t look like it. The instructor recommends that we all subscribe to a paid plan using the .org version. I’m not sure I’m going to but we’ll see how the class goes then maybe I will. I’m not seeing a big difference other than the upload process.

Remember back when you could build webpages using Yahoo? I had one of those. I had one that I built using Go Daddy and one other – Google. All of them should have disappeared from view although it’s been a long time since I’ve looked for them.

The class starts on December 18th. Just hope that I don’t subject everyone to some wacko coursework assignments here.

I am still knitting. Currently, I’m participating in the Gnana’s Visit gnome MKAL with Imagined Landscapes. I finished Clue 4 this morning and really need to get myself going on blocking the finished piece of Clue 3.

My other project is just a simple hat where you knit something that looks like a bolster pillow cover when it’s really a double-thick hat. That is the name of the pattern. Double Thick Hat and it can be found on Ravelry. This is my third one. It’s excellent for using up those left over fingering weight yarns.

Genealogy has been another obsession that’s been taking up some of my time and lots of my money over the past two years. I’m finding that I have ancestral ties that go way back almost to prehistoric times in both Canada/France and Scotland. Not that far. I am back into the 9th generation before now. Would that be BN – Before Now?

Obligatory Photo Time

It’s been a really long time since I’ve purchased yarn from Periwinkle Sheep. One day, an e-mail arrived in my inbox and I opened it instead of deleting it. Why I subscribe to every Indie Yarn dyer in the United States is still baffling me, but, every now and then I do make a purchase. Karin had mystery yarns as an option. I bought these. Aren’t they gorgeous? I think so.

Go enjoy your Monday!

What’s so exciting about a Thursday? If I was still working that would mean that tomorrow was Friday and then the weekend would be upon me. At one time the weekend wasn’t any better than the rest of the week since I was on a six or seven day work schedule. The joys of working in the auto industry in the maintenance department. The work never ends. If you want job security maintenance is the place to be. It’s also a lot like working retail during the Christmas holiday season. There’s no rest.

This morning I finished my gloves and posted a photo on Ravelry. Gloves

Not ten minutes after finishing the gloves I started a hat using another free pattern from Drops. Hat Mine is going to be in black and white to match the gloves. So far, I’ve got 4 rows of the ribbing done. I’ve been winding yarn, doing laundry and dog walking today so not a whole lot of knitting was going on.

The auto industry you ask? Yes, I was a contract supervisor in the auto industry for just about 15 years between GM and Ford. My time was spent at GM’s Warren Transmission for about a total of 3 years and at the GM Tech Center for about eight years and was responsible for just about every building at one time or another. After my GM years I moved on over to another contract company and spent five years at Sterling Axle. When they wanted to move me onto afternoon shift I decided it was time to go. It was just about on schedule anyway. Our goal was for me to work until I turned 59 so I was about 4 months ahead of schedule. My boss thought I was his age and still had 4 years to go since I had already told him of my plan. He was surprised.

I don’t miss it. The paycheck but not the rest of it.