A Few Sheep Shy of a Farm

Speed bump

You know what they say about the best laid plans . . . .

mine turned into a migraine! I spent 1/2 the afternoon unconscious and when I did wake up I just couldn’t function. Pixie Dust is here, she’s probably the only reason I’m functioning again tonight. So much energy! She’s working on her scarf while I type this and we’re about to watch a movie. I’m hoping to get a couple more samples done.

Pixie Dust is starting to run out of yarn, one color anyway. She’s knitting a garter stitch scarf with two strands of worsted weight, one pink, one purple. We had a deal, if she completed it by Halloween I’d give her a set of Denise needles. Well, turns out she let 3 other kids try knitting on it over the past few weeks and stitches were dropped, frogging was done to correct (I’d like to point out she recognized the problems and frogged all on her own! I don’t think she even realizes what a big deal that is!) So, since she was trying to infect others with the knitting bug, I gave her until tonight to finish. She’s working like a mad woman trying to finish so she can have her needles. The other part of that deal is that she gets to try spinning on my Jensen Production Wheel once the scarf is done, regardless of when it is finished. She’s knitting between staring at the wheel, especially with all the new fibers in the house. It could be a late night around here!

Off to start the movie! Perhaps tomorrow will be a more productive day . . .

Thank you!

Knitsteph, thank you for the e-card, your brought a smile to my afternoon!

Fibers!

This is the fiber I was telling you about yesterday, the Merino/angora blend. I spun a small sample last night, clearly not my best spinning, but it sure felt nice floating through my fingers!

Today I’m going to test out the others so I can see about having samples of them all. I should have at least the 2 colorways presentable in the next couple of days. Isn’t this fun?

Gotta run!