Okay, so far no takers on the silk worms . . .

A came by last night for a while. She has a book report to do for school on a fairy tale. Her teacher has asked her to do “Three Billy Goats Gruff” but she is going to ask to do a different story, one that is fiber/spinning related. She is going to see if she can do either “The Wild Swans” or “Rumplestiltzkin” since both are more related to her interests.

We went on a field trip to Barnes & Noble to get copies of the stories. I came home with several books of stories, things from when I was a kid that deserve rereading .. . . including an old favorite . . . .

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0395159903/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-2299886-1927865#reader-link

This was one of my favorites as a kid. Funny how you can forget something like that only to have it come back in a snap when you see the book again.

Anyhow, In rereading some of the Nursery Rhymes and Fairytales, the old ones that is, it struck me how many of them had something to do with spinning or fiber. Now I’m going to reread lots of them . . . .

In knitting news: It occurred to me last night, that if I want to start trying some new (to me) heel and toe techniques I could just knit a couple pair of kids socks, quick and easy and lets me try out the ideas! So I now have a pair of socks from plain off-white regia on size 2 needles started. I’m only a couple of rounds into them but don’t think they will take very long . . . .