Its entirely too quiet here at Chez Mousie today. My husband left this morning for a trip to Florida to play Airsoft with friends and won’t be back until Monday night.. and my son is at school. I’m enjoying actually being able to consume a whole English muffin and coffee without being bothered by anyone for any reason. I finally got up the guts to upgrade my blog to a newer version of WordPress - so please let me know if you see anything out of place. Everything appears normal on my end at the moment but I’m probably going to be showing up on your bloglines all day while I continue to edit things that pop up as problems.
I haven’t been doing much knitting lately but I have been spinning quite a bit. The photos in this post (as usual.. click to make with the big photos) are of some merino that I bought at Plying the Arts in Athens,GA last year that has been marinating in my stash. I was hoping for somewhere around 360 yards from this roving but I fell horribly short at 215.. a good amount for handspun but not enough for the hooded scarf pattern I had in mind. This yarn is about worsted weight to bulky with a nice tight ply to it.. I don’t particularly like loose plied yarns. All in all I was very happy with the way this yarn turned out and how fast it came together because of ‘preparing’ the fiber by ripping it into thin lengths and pre-drafting. The only other thing I did during preparation was to remove large strands of black from the roving so that the finished yarn wouldn’t come out too dark.
Here’s a shot of my yarn hanging out with a quarter.. because folks really seem to dig the combination of loose change and hand spun yarns around the spinning/knitting blogs. <g>
I’m planning on doing some catch up posting in the next few days because I’ve been really lazy with the blogging recently. I’ve been having a harder time this school year balancing out time for real life vs. computer/knitting/blogging stuff - it seems that from the time I get up in the morning to the time I go to bed that its a non-stop rush to get everything accomplished. I know that I already have in-law family stuff tomorrow but I’m looking forward to having at least the next 6 hours completely to myself. I’ve already gotten most of the dishes in the kitchen washing in the dishwasher, soaked & hung up a skein of hand spun singles (more on that this weekend I hope..), washed and hung my Danica scarf to dry (I’m hoping to soften up that Kureyon) and attempted the start of the search for my size 7 16″ circular needle that is missing somewhere in my office/studio. Unfortunately I was up this morning at about 5am with my husband for his trip, so I think my next order of business around here.. is a nap with the cat.
