More Random Stuff
1. The Tour de Fleece is still going and I am still spinning. I made a nice fat hank of Corriedale yarn and started on the Romney fleece.
2. Corriedale is nice to spin, but I still prefer BFL.
(oh how I miss the Kanye Interrupts meme.)
3. There are 6 lbs. of the Romney fleece. I’ve spun exactly 2 ounces and I am already sick of it.
4. You cannot spin at the beach. At least, I haven’t figured out a way to do it. Perhaps w/ a drop spindle, but I don’t fancy sand in my fiber, so no.
5. We’ve been at the beach a lot. But, evidently it’s jellyfish season and since Ezra appears to be allergic to their stings, we might not go back for a while.
6. I’ve started the rewriting process on my NaNo. It’s pretty terrible, but not as terrible as I thought. And I think I know where I’m going to start. I think.
7. I was going to work on it this morning, but I spent too much time making the Kanye Interrupting Sheep image and now I have to do houseworky things. Stoopid never ending houseworky things.
Random because that all I’ve got right now
1. My energy levels have been all wonky lately, hence the quietness of The Blog.
2. I am working on it w/ my Doctor, but in the mean time, I’ve been spending a lot of time on tumblr. If you aren’t familiar with tumblr, it’s kind of like a step up from twitter. If twitter is a micro-blog, then tumblr is a mini-blog. I’m still trying to get the hang of it, but ya’ll? I really like it. Check it out. You have to be a tumblr follower of mine to leave a comment (which means you have to have a tumblr account) or you can just subscribe to my tumblr rss feed. Either way is cool, but you know how I love the comments.
3. I was playing around with Plurk for a while, as a possible replacement to Facebook, but not enough none of my FB buddies were similarly motivated to follow me over to Plurk, so I give up. I will focus on Twittering and Tumblring instead.
4. Speaking of Twitter, I gave in. I guess now that it’s not in the news every two seconds, it’s more tolerable. The only problem is I find I get that stupid Fail Whale a lot. Twitter, if you’re going to be the “in” thing, please get some more servers! Which reminds me. I am troubled that it isn’t immediately apparent how Twitter makes money. There aren’t any ads that I can see. So, where are they getting the scratch for that operation? It’s a mystery.
5. PEOPLE!! TOUR DE FLEECE STARTS TODAY!!! Are you participating? I’m on Team Hoar!
My plan, since I am new to Tour De Fleece, is to just spin every day and get through as much of my fiber stash as I can. Granted, I am a new spinner, and my stash is not as enormous as it could be, but I do have a fair amount of fiber. Right now I have some Spunky Eclectic Corriedale on my bobbin. When that’s done I’ll move onto the Romney fleece that I’d had processed a while back. There’s a crapton of that, but if by some miracle I get through it all, I will move onto the alpaca and then the quiviut blend that I picked up at the Sheep and Wool Festival in April. GO TEAM HOAR!
6. I started a new sock:
Hopefully, this sock with this yarn will get finished this time.
7. I finished a scarf for Ezra.
Yes, it is a fun-fur scarf. Yes, I knitted it against my will. But, before you knock the fun-fur scarf, keep in mind that the whole thing only took up about an hour of knitting time. Maybe less. And, when people see the fun-fur scarf, they think you are a god damned genius.
8. We are dog sitting.
My friend and her family went out to Salt Lake for 3 weeks to visit family. Things are going well on this end. Sandy is a very good dog, but she still finds the cats to be terrifying, stabbity creatures. Doozer is still being kind of a jerk, although Lolly has warmed up to her quite a bit. No pictures of them all together, though. It usually doesn’t end well.
9. I’ve printed my NaNo 2009 for a reread/rewrite. I think this could be a good book, ya’ll. But it needs some work. A lot of work. And when I say “a lot”, I mean a LOT. Interested in being a reader? Leave me a comment. I’d love some feedback on it.
And that is all. The Blog is now updated. How’ve you all been?
Another dishrag done.
A little park day knitting with my homeschool meetup group
gave way to a FO tonight
[ravelry].
I need another project. Dishrag? Socks? Or perhaps I should get a start on my holiday gift knitting? Decisions, decisions…
A Lace Knitting Breakthrough
Remember how I was making slow and painstaking progress on the Blue Blossom Shawl and feeling extremely stressed out by it? Well, I finally got a clue and made myself a crapton of very delicate and very sparkly stitch markers.
I placed them at the beginning of each pattern repeat, and then something just clicked. Suddenly I could see where I was in the pattern and if when I made a mistake I could catch it quickly and easily. I blazed through the remaining repeats of the center section in no time at all and am ready to move on to the next section. For future reference: stitch markers = lace knitting succeed!
Whiskers on Wednesday
I was sick on Sunday and Lolly kept me company while my fever ran its course.
I’ve never seen her so relaxed. She’s just one of those cats that looks perpetually alarmed. I wonder if she was waiting for me to keel over so she could take over my spot in the bed…
More Garterlac.
Just not now. It turns out I wasn’t feeling the garterlac as hard as I thought I was.
[ravelry]
Death Star Egg
It’s no moon.
the garterlac puzzle: solved.
[ravelry]
I finished up this scruffy looking dishrag last night while watching the 2nd season finale of Lost. I wonder if mastering the garterlac technique would have been easier if we had been watching a show that is even slightly less confusing. Hrmm… Thankfully I had that flickr tutorial, and these instructions for an alternate method for starting it out. The Dishrag of Dooooom! is done and I will probably cast another one on later today. Yay!
Wait, what? You mean I have other projects I could be working on? But… but… it’s garterlac! Adorable, charming, utterly delightful garterlac! And we still have 4 seasons of Lost to get through before anything about it makes any sense!!
Dishrag of DOOOOM!
The other night, after the boys were asleep and the Mister and I were settling in to watch Lost (we’re only on season 2, so NO SPOILERS PLEASE! kthxbai), I was pondering which of all my current works in progress I was going to work on. What’s a knitter to do when none of them sounds appealing? Cast on something new, of course!
[ravelry]
This project has been doomed, DOOMED I SAY!, from the start. Even before I’d cast on a single stitch, I’d turned my ball of yarn into a completely tangled mess. Then, as I’ve tried to learn this new (to me) technique, I’ve had to frog the entire thing, not once, not twice, but THREE times so far. The only reason I’ve persevered is because solving puzzles is fun. Hah. Thank goodness for this tutorial from Knitted Kitty. Has anyone else tried the Garterlac Dishcloth (or any other type of entrelac)? What did you think?
I got my hair did!
Nice and short, too!
Just in time for hot summer weather!
