I am liquidating the contents of a closet full of hoarded yarn that I *totally* forgot about until we scoured the house last night for Ben’s hat, which we ultimately still failed to find.
http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/art/728616204.html
I’ve posted them on craigslist, but if anyone I know wants these I’ll find a way to get ‘em to you. I just want this closet space back! (One day, one fine day, all my craft supplies will fit in one closet. Ah, a girl can dream.
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Nobody told me spinning laceweight singles on a spindle takes for. freaking. ever.
But I’m enjoying it. Camel hair is luscious and soft, different from spinning wool but equally satisfying in a tactile sense. This is the spindle my mom-in-law gave me for Chanukah - I heart it.
We’ll start with the satisfaction, just ‘cuz. I purchased this the moment I received the reprint notification email from Threadless:
I got a girly tee for me, and a kids’ one for Sami, so we will match.
In the lust column, please file this:
A Golding RingSpindle. Handcrafted and downright freakin’ gorgeous. I would love this particular design even more if it were in Purpleheart wood, but truth be told, I’d settle for pretty much any non-painted wood spindle Golding makes.
This ends my spate of materialism. Perhaps I should go get some sleep.
8 oz of Dark Blue Faced Leicester
See my big 8-ounce pile of dark colored Blue Faced Leicester (I think I am in love with this fiber!)
This is quite an undertaking. My plan is to fill up two bobbins with it, think about filling a third bobbin with it, and then turning it into a two- or three-ply yarn, and from there, into mittens!
It is soft and sensually joyful to work with, which is probably what is getting me through the monotony. That and episode after episode of Good Eats on my TiVo.
Edited to add, that since this post looks somewhat akin to refried crap with the text being so short, I’m going to add that I absolutely, utterly find spinning fiber to be a daily necessity. I am making the executive decision to prioritize it below my gym routine, but the upshot of this is that I’m just getting an hour less sleep at night, because giving up the spinning is not an acceptable solution for me.
When this particular spin is done with, my next project will be to finish my mom’s and my dad’s Christmas presents. Yeah, they are late, but there was too much going on in December, so I already gave them the heads up. They will be spectacular, whenever I am able to complete them.
Gym check - 60 minutes of cardio Monday night. I put Harry Potter 5 on my iPod and it got me through. 500 calories, and boy am I feeling it this morning; I was starving!
I have been steadily working on my current spinning project, a dark blue faced leicester top that I got from Spunky Eclectic. It is nigh upon the softest thing I have ever touched, and I’m working on an 8-oz pile of it which is… taking nigh upon forever to spin up. But it is a fantastic wind-down activity in the evening, especially after a workout and a shower. (Haha, winding on yarn to wind down… ok, I will not make a career out of punnery.)
For someone who sure loves my camera a lot, I haven’t been on top of the photojournalism lately. I promise pictures of the wheel, my spinning, and maybe a new shot of Sami sometime soon.
