Put some yarn up on eBay, hideous stuff– but happily someone wants it; acrylic rug yarn purchased in a fit of thriftiness (meaning it was in a bag with some yarn that I did actually want). I would post the url to the auction but I’m afraid that I might be poked at and mocked for keeping such things in my house.
Dyed some more black roving, have a good 1/2 of a leg done on Lexi’s soakers, so I think I need about 80 yards to finish them.
I made a cabled sweater for Lexi. This should fit her for about a week before she outgrows it.
Not much on the needles these days, I’m working on another pair of soakers, and another sweater but I need to go pick up some more dpns before I can continue with the sweater so.
I don’t consider myself a ‘wheelie’ but I’ve gotten to the point where I need more speed, I just finish spindling and plying a hank and it’s knit up before I know what’s happened. I’ve been shopping around, and think I’m going to look more into the Ashford Traditional, one of Matt’s friends is a spinner too and said she will loan me hers so that I could try it out and see how it feels.
I’m in uber-cleaning mode today, and it’s not pretty. I decided to chuck some things that I’ve been hanging onto for no good reason, like a dress that I started sewing when I was fat, gave up on because I knew I’d be too fat to wear it, then carted it around or stored it for the last 13 years unfinished– now I’m waaaay too thin to wear it. Screw trying to find the zipper for it, I’m filing it under ‘garbage’ and getting rid of the darned thing.
I hate to do it, my frugal side says “Wen– you’ll fix it, you’ll mend it, you can take it in, you can still use it.”, my packrat side says, “Wendy you’ll miss it when it’s gone.”, my sentimental side says, “Oh! You should keep it to remind you of those times.” and my neat side stopped speaking years ago when it up and died.
I’m going to resist and not listen to them. Out! Out! Gone is the dress! Goodbye old shoes, goodbye nasty old coat, goodbye ratty sweater– I’ll miss you all.
You won’t believe what I found! In my ongoing quest to provide my son with a stimulating and interesting educational experience I found CIA for KIDS.
My hard-drive caught a mild case of net-herpes so I’m a little tired from staying awake until 4 am making copies of everything before playing around with the registry (I’m not the most competent PC user in the world so this was dangerous territory for me). Fortunately I didn’t lose anything but I could have if the virus wasn’t just a Trojan backdoor, if it were a file destroying sucker I might have lost everything. Very close call.
I want to dye some of the mohair roving, but I read that heat damages mohair and I’m worried about it now. I did dye oodles and gobbles of mohair yarn in the crockpot and didn’t mess any of it up. Not at all, it’s the same stuff that I used to knit Lexi’s reception outfit– it came out beautifully.
I still haven’t used the Dylon dye yet, maybe I’ll test it on wool first and then use it on the mohair if it comes out nicely.