Showing posts with label Spin-In. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spin-In. Show all posts

Monday, January 28, 2008

Unusual weekend

My weekend seems to have begun Friday morning. I went in for 3 crowns (that did not happen last time) and a filling. Four hours later, I came home exhausted and went to bed hoping that I would wake up having regained the side of my face that was numb. What is it about dental work that makes you feel unreasonably exhausted? Later that night, I got a call saying that my Spin-In was canceled due to bad weather expectation. I was so ready to sit and spin all day Sat. It has been rescheduled for this coming Sat, thankfully. I ended up going to a guild meeting that I was going to have to miss because of the Spin-In. It was nice and I met some new knitters/spinners/weavers.
As far as knitting this weekend, I did not finish my Half Circle Cardigan. I did work on it, but it is taking longer than I thought. At this point, it is so heavy and not portable. I have about 55 rows to go on the last sleeve. I will finish it this week, hopefully. I did work on my Lyra this weekend. I am now on Rnd 101. I made progress on another Table Runner for my Christmas stash for this year and started a pair of knit felted clogs for another friend's Christmas present. I am trying very hard to make progress on Christmas presents every month, at least one per month. I plan on sitting down and writing out my list of friends and each time I finish a gift, I get to mark them as done. I will not call it a New Years resolution. I hope to keep this progress up, but even if it fizzles out, like last year, I will have made progress on some of my list. To me, nothing says "I value your friendship" like a handmade gift.

This is a picture of my roving, ready to be taken for a spin.
This is some hand spun yarn that I will probably be using to make fingerless gloves with for more Christmas stash.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Clean or cleaner office

I am enjoying a cleaner office, today. I sold an unused piece of exercise equipment that was just another surface to pile things on. It cleared up a lot of space in my office, but all the stuff on it ended up all across one side of my long work top. Right away, I knew that a trip to my local discount store was in order. I had allowed my magazines to pile up and I did not have enough of the magazine holders to put them in. This is a purchase I should have made last year. I confess, I have a "pile-it" degree. I am not proud of this degree, but thankfully, I eventually deal with it.
As for progress on my Half Circle Cardigan, I have 60 rows to go on the other Front and one more sleeve to complete. This afternoon I have to go for some auto maintenance, so I will probably get to the sleeve before my Bible study tonight. I was thinking that I would definitely finish it Sat (we have a road trip to Mountain View for a Spin-In), but I will have to find another project to take. It will have to be something mindless so that I will not get carsick on the winding roads. I wish that this meant that I would have a lovely skein of yarn to show you Monday, but my spinning is very slow and once I get home, my wheel will go back in the corner until the Fiber Retreat in March. I would just rather be knitting. Spinning for me is something that I love to do at a gathering of other spinners. It is not something I like to do at home alone. It is a sociable craft for me. Doing it with other spinners makes it so enjoyable.