Yo-Yoing Along

And I'm back on the waggon again, having made something like another fifty of the things this week, bringing the total up to 328, this close to a full third.

Wandering around the internet the other night I checked back in at the home of the Great Yo-Yo Along, Sew Take a Hike, to find that the deadline has been extended because the blogmistress herself is behind with things. Well, then. It can happen to the best of us. :)

Yo-Yo Uh-Oh

Oh dear. I sit here in the middle of the road with a bruised backside, watching the waggon I have fallen from go plodding off into the distance...

I didn't get any yo-yos done this week. I am still in need of fabric for them, and haven't gotten out to get some yet. I suppose I should see if I can press some other fabric into service.

Saturday Yo-Yo Blogging

And just a quick check-in with the yo-yos I've been doing. I am behind, now, it's true, but I'm up to 275 of them, which is 27.3% of them, more than a quarter. Of course there's only a couple months left, so I gotta get going here. Thing is though I'm running out (or have run out) of cloth from my stash in the correct colors, so I'm going to have to go and buy some.

The yo-yos, however, are now numerous enough that they are beginning to overrun the decent-sized box I put them in. This thing is going to be really, really, heavy, isn't it?

Yo-Yoing Along

Just a quick note before I give the kitten his meds and then collapse into bed. I got another twenty-one yo-yos done tonight, bringing the total up to an even 250, which makes 24.8% of them done.

Yo-Yo Along Progress

It's that time of the week again! That's right, it's yo-yo time! Yo!

Now despite the fact that I am up to my ears in kittens—seven at last count, all of whom are currently being fostered in my dining room, which has been renamed the Romper Room—I still managed to get a decent amount done, and am still ahead of my total. Though like I said I'll be away for the next couple of weeks, so I expect I'll fall behind.

So as of just a few minutes ago I've now got 229 of them done; that's 22.7% of the total of 1008, and more than a fifth of the way there.

Not bad!

Friday Yo-Yo Blogging

Checking in now at the two week mark for the Great Yo-Yo Along. Okay, I added the 'Great'. But it works, you know? I'm up to 155 out of 1008 yo-yos, which sets it at 15.4% of the total. I'm still ahead of the game as far as the totals per week goes; however, since I'm going away for a couple of weeks, and since I'm not intending to bring the yo-yos along, I may still end up behind.

They're living right now in the lid to a large box I keep my fat quarters in, but they're going to be overflowing soon I fear. I wonder what the finished pile will look like? Also, I wonder just how freakin' heavy this coverlet is going to be...

Yo-Yo Update

Well I'd planned to update this yesterday, as that was the one week mark since I'd joined the Great Yo-yo Along. But a rather long story came up, one which involved a three week old kitten, a veterinarian, and these evil things called cuterebras (Google at your own peril); it ended with the decision to bottle-feed the little thing, which though rather a lot of work, isn't nearly as much work at three weeks as it would be if the kitten were newborn. So overall it's going along okay. Did you know a three week old kitten can purr?

But before all that came up I'd been working on the yo-yos steadily and had made some excellent progress. However before I reveal just how many I got done, let me tell you about a dream I once had:

It involved Antonio Banderas. Now, my taste in men is usually so odd that it is truly a miracle when it overlaps with the rest of the planet's; but hey, you know, Antonio Banderas. I find him just adorable, and from the interviews I've seen with him, he sounds like a sweetie who also remarkably enough has a clue.

So in this dream there were several of us women lined up to, well, let's say, have relations with our Mr. Banderas. There was one woman ahead of me in line; I saw her and she was stark staring naked. Antonio looked at her and said, Oh, so you don't shave your yo-yo?

When I woke I had to admit I was unfamiliar with that particular Spanish euphemism.

So now to the (um) anti-climax. This week I got an even one hundred yo-yos made, to put me at 9.9% of the total. I joined this thing a little late, so have figured that if I am to get the required 1008 done by the due date of the end of October (known 'round these parts as Samhain) then I need to get something like sixty-one of them done a week. So, so far so good!

I'm A Yo-Yo

Because I need another work in progress like I need a hole in the head (at last count I had thirteen of the things—works in progress, that is, not holes in the head) I decided to join the Yo-yo Along over at Sew Take A Hike. I think it's the progress bar that did it, frankly.

Unlike the instructions though I'm making them without the yo-yo maker thingie, being an old-fashioned sort. Yo-yo makers? Rotary cutters? Pfffft. Why back in my grandmothers' day we had to use these things called scissors, and if it was good enough for them it is good enough for me. Oh and get off my lawn you damned kids!

Of course that also meant that the first batch I made were a pain in the ass since I didn't know that you were supposed to turn the edge over like a hem as you gathered it. Once I cottoned on to that (via the oh-so-new-fangled Internet) it's been going like a breeze.

So out of the total 1008 (holy cow!) yo-yos that will go into the planned coverlet, I've got twenty done. Wheee!



It's gonna be a while, isn't it.