How terrible a time is the beginning of March. In a month there will be daffodils and the sudden blossoming of orchards, but you wouldn’t know it now. You have to take spring on blind faith. — Beatriz Williams
March certainly roared in like a lion here in the south hills of Pittsburgh… for a time on Saturday it looked like a snow globe outside with the flurry of flakes that filled the skies and quickly covered the ground! Couple those flakes with 30+ MPH winds and bitterly cold temperatures and I was reminded that it is still winter despite the signs of spring that are “popping up” everywhere!
I spent some time Saturday afternoon, while the winds raged outdoors reclaiming some yarn from a sweater that never worked (and no, it was not the big cabled sweater… I thought I’d start “smaller” and see how the unraveling process worked.) It went surprisingly fast… sigh. All that reclaimed yarn – an incredible CVM 2-ply – is having a bit of a bath this morning. I have two stacks of things from my latest “closet clean out” that I plucked the sweater from (the “repurpose” pile”) The other is a “repair” pile that I’d like to get to this month… things like hem repairs, button reattachments, and seam reinforcements.
From a sweater to “fusilli” and now having a good long soak to work out the kinks!
Outside of unraveling sweaters, I really want to spend the month thinking about my living “spaces.” This means cleaning out a drawer or two, but also contemplating new furniture arrangements! And maybe a new rug for the living room!
Oh… and that refrigerator clean out from last month? Yeah that did not happen… so maybe I will get to it this month!
What about you? What do you hope March holds?
Yay for reclaiming your yarn! I can’t wait to see what you end up doing with those pretty skeins 🙂
And thinking of new furniture arrangements is always a fun endeavor… the difficult part for me is following through with the plan!
That CVM is gorgeous yarn and I hope it goes on to become something that you love. I thought about cleaning my refrigerator, pantry, and freezers in February, but I hope I actually do it in March. I’ve been busy forming a “concept of a plan”!
Ha! My refrigerator “clean” did not happen either. Maybe this month? I also need to go through pantry items. The other day I pulled out an unopened bag of rye flour to give to Colin only to find an expiration date on it of 2023!! I know I have things that I will not use and I want to bag them up to drop off at a local food pantry. We are also in a deep freeze again and the winds were once again howling mid-day Saturday and all through the night. Your unraveled yarn is so pretty (and Spring-like). I hope you can figure out what to do with it soon!
One of the things I really love about knitting is that it’s possible to unravel a sweater and reuse the yarn — it’s so sustainable!
Saturday morning was a bit of a rude start to March, wasn’t it? I was happy I had nothing planned and could sit and sip my coffee while the snow blew around outside.
The great thing about March is that the weather often changes dramatically by the time it’s over! Let’s hope that’s the case this year, too!
Hooray for reclaimed yarn. I bet it will be gorgeous after the spa treatment. I love the last line of that quote. We are in for some wintry weather this week but the good news is that snow doesn’t last long in March. I’m not sure what I’m hoping for in March. Would a little more sanity in the world be too much to ask for? Perhaps I’ll settle for greening up of plants other than weeds and more daylight.
Once your bundle of ‘wet stuff’ is nice and dry and rewound into balls you’ll have the time of your life deciding whether to reknit the same or something different. It’s fun looking forward to new achievements
March for us is not a looking forward month but a letting go one.
Let just say that even though we have to let go of the light I’m hoping we don’t have to let go of the warmth just yet.
I’m hoping for warm days with some warm rain. There’s been no rain here for quite a while…..and none forecast either
Comparing that yarn to fusilli just means I love it all the more – knitting and pasta are two of my favourite things
Every once in a while, the weather in March is a pleasant surprise. But mostly, it’s just kinda nasty . . . When I was a kid, I always tracked that lion/lamb thing very carefully and seriously because my birthday is right at the end of March and I always wanted to “know” if the weather would be lion-y or lamb-y. (What I learned is that . . . the lion/lamb thing is not a good predictor of anything!) Tom and I did a GIANT clean-out and pare-down of our entire lower level (which includes his office and my “craft space”) before having it painted last week. It is so liberating to pare down! (And my refrigerator did not get cleaned out either, just sayin.)
a new rug would be fun. Once Frodo passed I thought I would rip out all the carpeting and yet here I sit with it being a thought in my head. I love to rip out projects that I’m not happy about after I go through all the emotions.