Wednesday - again.

This week lies in the great valley between "last day of classes" and "finished with finals" for my teen aged daughters. Theoretically, they are studying but mostly, they are getting on each other's nerves.

So, I've been trying to stay out of their way and get a bit of laundry done. I've been hoping to go see Star Trek for, oh, the third time but real life has been interfering as usual.

Laundry brought this Cool Wednesday to mind. No one uses diapers around here anymore but if I did, I would do this:

Make your own (or my own) cloth baby diapers!

Knitting-wise, I think this is one cool tool. I've been thinking about making some baby hats and this would make things a bit more exciting.

Think of it as the new summer movie: "Stripenator III: The Rise of the Random Stripe Generator."

The Third Cool Thing of the Day: I'm a Pittsburgh girl at heart. I wish I could raise bees but I don't have enough room here in Saint Paul. These guys have the right idea. I think I could get this shown at my local drive in movie:

Bee Force: Breaking Training II.""

Pay no attention to the corn dog behind the curtain . . .

Sure, I'd like to say that I made good food choices at the State Fair but . . . I'd be lying. Yep, we had trips to the malted booth, the Pronto Pups, the mini-doughnuts and the free Cheetos. And chinese food. But we did walk all over the grounds (no one would let me visit the Sheep booth!) and had a lovely time so maybe, they actually balanced each other out. Right . . .



We also stopped by to visit my green Kiri shawl at the Textile Center display. No, I didn't enter it in the Fair (I knitted it for the Knitting Olympics and it had a few mistakes!) but I love it and they needed items from the Mn. Knitters' Guild for the display. Stop by and wave at it! GFMelissa has a cute little felted hat (with needle felted flowers) on display as well. Later on, I stopped by the Minnesota Lamb and Wool Producers booth for some great Rosemary soap and a yarn-decorated bowl from Jennie the Potter. I hesitated over the yarn for quite some time but I'm still spinning quite a bit and until I make something with it, I'm feeling a little guilty.



Obviously, I didn't feel guilty enough. On Friday, I read on the TC Knit Yahoo list that Creative Fibers in Minneapolis was going to be closing at the end of September. Everything is currently 25% off. That is the store where I took my first spinning class and I feel so sad. Someone - buy that store!

So GFM and I bundled up all the kids and drove over to check things out. I bought another skein of All Things Heather sock yarn in Mustard Yellow and some Mohair/Wool spinning fiber. I was hoping to score some more Red Star Rovings but it was all gone. So, I really used up my State Fair self-allocated yarn allowance before I got there.




This week's Saturday Seven went right to someone who could use them. Someone posted a "Wanted" request for cloth diapers on Freecycle this week and I was able to give them the end of my diaper stash - nine diapers and four covers. Yes, we used cloth diapers until they wouldn't stay on Youngest Child's bottom any more. Then, we moved into disposables and training pants. Not me, personally, I've been trained for years! The Royal/Group "We." So, I bundled them up for the recipient and they were picked up yesterday. I could have kept them for cleaning cloths but they were really nice diapers!