Happy Thursday! The long weekend is almost here!

Well, last night I had planned to get all sorts of cleaning done before we have company this weekend. However, my allergies had been bothering me and the medicine made me feel weird so when I got home I was planning to take a little nap, just a half-hour. Well, 2 1/2 hours later when I finally woke up . . . I was feeling very strange and disoriented and then I realized, I had been getting another migraine!!! So I got nothing done on all the cleaning projects I had planned! Hate when that happens!!!

It did occur to me last night that perhaps I was wrong about the rabbit being a buck instead of a doe. So I brought the other one in the house and turned it over. I can’t tell the difference, they look just the same to me! That really complicates things! I now plan to do my shopping that has to get done tonight right after work and then run home, unload the car and get the rabbit to go to Spinning. I’ve been going to the Thursday night spinning group at Minds Eye Yarn for almost a year now. Lucy used to raise rabbits so I’m hopeful that she can tell me what I have without having to drive all the way to Sherborn tomorrow to see Debbie at Iron Horse Farm(who by the way, must think I’m crazy by now!) Keep your fingers crossed for me, I really want to keep this rabbit so I really hope its a she!

I plan to bring the medium colored portion of the Jacob Fleece I bought at the NH Sheep and Wool Festival with me to spinning tonight. I intend to use this fleece for my first attempt at spinning in the grease and I can’t wait to give it a try. I’ve had such a hard time making time for spinning lately and with company coming this weekend I might not have gone to the group tonight but I didn’t go last week either and I really try not to miss 2 weeks in a row.

I’m still working on the sock project. Only got a few rows done yesterday but they now reach about 1/2 way from my toe to my leg . . . few more inches and I’ll be able to try working out the heels! Once I have that figured out I’ll be able to start writing this up to post here. I have realized one thing that may make explaining this pattern easier. I’m not really working in the round. At least not in the traditional sense. If you really look closely at the way this works you are actually knitting a front and a back at the same time which just happen to be connected by the fact you are using the same piece of yarn for both halves. They are really each worked flat only when you turn it over to do the “wrong side” your actually doing the other half of the sock so that it tooks like it was done in the round! Does that make sense??? I’m going to try to explain it to the co-worker that I’m teaching to knit since I’ve found if I can teach someone else how something is done I can then understand it better and I’m able to write up a better explanation.

I still haven’t gotten back to writing up the pattern for Dom’s socks. I may try to work on it today if I get a chance this afternoon. Things seem like they are pretty slow at work today so I may have a few minutes. I’m just finishing working out the repeat of the cable pattern I used for the legs so it is really most of the way done. If at all possible I want to have it posted before the weekend.

Oh, and I’m planning to teach my cousins to knit this weekend. They were very interested in the socks I”m working on when they were here last weekend and wanted to learn how to do that. The 10yr old wants to make toe socks!!! I told her that might be a better 2nd or 3rd project and we should probably start with a scarf! Actually, that is what I love about teaching kids, they are fearless! They have no concept of a thing being difficult or anything, they just dive right in.

Silkworm update: They are growing fast now! I can see a difference in just an overnight. And they are really starting to eat more. I’ve been alternating between the fresh mulberry leaves from the backyard and the Silkworm chow that I bought from the place I got the eggs. They seem to eat both without any problem and sometimes (like at night) its just easier to give them the chow than to try to get leaves off the trees in the yard. They have changed from black to a very light shade of green-grey and are now more than an eighth of an inch long. I plan to take more pictures in a few more days, I’m hoping by then they will be big enough to really be seen in the pictures. I know I’ve lost a few along the way and right now I have no idea how many of the 3000 eggs have hatched or lived to this point but once they are big enough to handle I plan to count them.

Okay, that’s all for now. If I get the sock pattern finished I’ll post again to add it.