Zen and Now

I was feeling really Zen about this Summer of Stash. Four weeks ago, I took my daughter to Springfield (MO) to get her enrolled in college for the fall semester, and investigated a yarn store while I was there. I walked around, petted some yarn, and told the ladies I'd be back in the fall. Of course, it "helped" to have my daughter there reminding me that "you said you aren't buying any yarn this summer"!
I have even managed to finish 2 projects: a Booga Bag (enlarged from original pattern), and a pair of socks for my husband (his first handknit socks).
Suddenly, with several projects going at once (work about an inch on some socks, a round of a circular shawl, 4 rows on a stole, repeat sequence until eyes roll up in head), I desperately wanted to start something new. So I bought a ball of crochet cotton at Wal-Mart, to make the Dutch sampler on the KnitalongSamplerM Yahoo group. Then I got tired of waiting to hear from the people I'd ordered sock yarn from on May 29th (that had been my last yarn order, and I didn't even know about this group until several days later). This was over 5 weeks later, and no word from them on where the order was, so I searched & found another source for the yarn, and ordered it.
And on this rainy Monday, I am out of the knitting doldrums, back at work on my backlog of UFOs.
Pictures & details on my blog.
Julie