Blogging difficulties

I don’t know what is going on with Blogger but I’ve been having trouble even getting to my blog all week let alone to the posting area . . . strange things in blog land.

Finished the 2nd of the hats from the old handspun last night. Off to hat box land for that one. Now there are 6 hats in the pile to give away later on. I seem to do them in spits and starts but I’m still on track with that one goal for the year. I may do a few more in the next week or so, they go pretty quickly if I carry them around with me. If we have another winter like this past one I think there won’t be such a thing as too many warm hats on hand ;) I also plan to let each of the gardening club kids pick one at the end of the season. . .

Still haven’t plied up that 2nd pound of yarn. May try to get to it tonight. I’d like to get it set and ready to be dyed. At this point the plan is to take the dyes out on Monday and do a bunch of immersion dyeing with the 2 pounds that are spun so far. I’ll likely just use up some of the odds and ends of colors we had mixed up last fall rather than actually taking out the powders to work with. Lets me skip one whole step. I don’t remember what I have mixed up for colors but there should be more than enough to play with. . . .

I also knit a swatch last night of some handdyed cotton I bought last year that I’d like to knit up a quick summer to out of. Need to measure and then launder it before taking the final gauge as I think it may shrink up a bit when washed. Wouldn’t want it to shrink after its done without factoring that in . . . I have 2 larges skeins of this yarn and I think my top may take 1 plus a bit more so I may wind up with enough to make one for A as well. Wouldn’t that be cute, matching tops?

Ah well, back to the day time stuff. . .