I bit the bullet and cleaned out some old photos from my WordPress media library yesterday. I was bonkers back in the day – adding five or six photos for one project? Re-adding the photo if I talked about it in another post? Somehow several photos were in there twice. Bonkers, I tell you. I tried to purge judiciously, so that I wouldn’t leave many photos without any of their original photos. Thanks to my efforts, I’m now only at 75% of my limit rather than 85, so I’ve put off the inevitable a bit longer. Maybe it means more posts without photos, or a single photo?
I also decided to cast on a new project yesterday, since I finished the Not a Dickie. I decided to knit a Librarian Vest (Rav link) with some KnitPicks Preciosa from deep stash. I’ll wear it more as a tank under a cardigan or jacket than a vest over something else, so I chose a closer-fitting size. I really didn’t want to do a swatch, and I remembered I knit a cowl with this yarn three years ago. Surely that would count as a swatch? Surely my tension hasn’t changed in three years? Yes, I realize the idiocy of this choice and yet I’m moving forward anyway based on the gauge in that cowl. Stay tuned to see how well it works out!
Also, as I began knitting, I realized the pattern uses centimeters throughout rather than inches, and it uses German short rows which are not my favorite short rows. Surely I can overcome those minor annoyances?? (“Don’t call me Shirley!”)
Tomorrow is Local Yarn Store day! Is anyone celebrating? I’m undecided – I want to, even though I have no need for new yarn.
Happy Friday, friends.
bonnyknits 
I’d say it counts! Go forth with confidence 🙂 No LYS day for me. I’m really trying not to buy yarn and not going in person means less temptation for me.
“Yes, I realize the idiocy of this choice and yet I’m moving forward anyway”
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Sadly no LYS day celebration for me. I’m putting off my next visit to my LYS until after I finish my current sweater and the GAL blanket I’ve been trying to get (finally) finished. Once that’s done, though, I’ll probably make a trip to my LYS to get some new sweater yarn Been a while since I’ve knit a sweater with yarn I chose instead of yarn in the stash! I’m looking forward to that… and trying to be patient. 😉
When you don’t feel like swatching don’t do it. That’s what I tell myself. No LYS day for me, but I’m going to pop into my guild’s fiber festival, so I’m sure I’ll buy all sorts of fiber and yarn and pottery.
I often use that very same logic, so it sounds pretty sensible to me! No LYS day for me. I need to calm down on the yarn buying for a little bit.
Haha, good luck with that! 😉
I spent hours reducing the sizes on my photos on my blog which said it had reduced them in size but I’m still showing as 85% full…the buggers. I suspect I’ll need to delete some too, perhaps WIP ones rather than FOs as a start.
Oh shoot, that’s frustrating! I haven’t done much in trying to reduce the size – it’s such a pain, or at least I haven’t found an easy way to do it.