One Crazy Fiber Lady

First off, thank you to everyone for their comments on poor Merlin’s demise.  I am thankful that the twins are not old enough to have understood what happened and as a result are not traumatized by the events.  I do so hope that it was over quickly and that the poor birdie did not suffer long. 

Once again, Tuesday was spinning day at my home.  It has been a while, but I finally got back to it.  The lure of the other projects was not so strong as to distract me.  Of course it did have to wait for a trip to AC Moore for more sex. After I finished the first ribby, I picked up the pattern from ChicKnits for her LoTech Sweat.  After spending some time consulting the budget and the yarn options out there, I decided on the Patons Classic Merino for it.  I know Smiley’s has excellent prices on it but I seemed to remember that AC Moore carried it so I hit their website to see if I could confirm this.  While they don’t list all their products on their website, I did check out their current circular.  Imagine my surprise to find they were having a 25% all yarn sale.  And yup, they carried the Classic.  Oh no, the sale ends Tuesday 3/15th.  After a quick dinner with the folks and a surprise visit from my baby sister, the twins and I popped off to fondle some yarn.  I wound up picking up enough yarn to do the LoTech, as well as another Ribby. All for $3.74 a skein.  The colors are Dark Grey Mix, New Denim and Denim Marl.

The LoTech will be in the Dark Grey mix.  The denim for the body and the marl for the sleeves and probably the collar as well of a new Ribby.  I also picked up some beads to make a custom pull for Ribby 1 and should have that done by the end of the weekend.  Now to make room to put the yarn.

I finally, FINALLY, finished spinning up that moorit corrieX lamb roving that I have been spinning on the Tina.  Thank goodness.  I was oh so tempted to fill the bobbin and toss whatever wouldn’t fit on it.  That’s how tired of this stuff I am.  Oy.  Now I just have to ply it.  I have two very full Tina bobbins, plus the two Lendrum bobbins of it to ply.  Not to mention the two Tina bobbins of already plied stuff that I’ve been too lazy to skein up.  I’ll be happy when this stuff is in the complete pile.  I’m so sick of it, I’m not even sure I can knit with it.  I might just have to put it up as looking for a new home.  I’m not sure what I’ll spin next on Tina, but I’m sure something will hit me.  I’ll hopefully ply it soon and just get it done.

I think I might just leave the space recently vacated by the birdcage to put my Womack Electric back out.  When the bird arrived, I put the spinner away, as it had shared that space with an extra printer.  My spinning while the twins are up were put was put on hold as I’m still too chicken to tempt those nosy little monsters.  Heck the cats are bad enough and I had to spin last night with Baron in my lap.  I can see Alex shoving his finger in the spokes of the moving wheel in my mind’s eye and I just don’t want to tempt it.  Though, I could use my Journey Wheel.  Hell, I forgot I even have that one.  Too many wheels, too little time to use them.  Anyone want a small european saxony wheel? I NEVER use it and it probably would be very happy in a new home.  Inquiries welcome

I finished the first cotton ribby front this morning, on the elevator to the office too.  I was so close to finishing that I was tempted to take the subway an extra stop or two just so I could finish.  I knitted instead on the elevator and just need to bind off at lunch before I can start the next piece.  I do have to admit that I like the way the Cotton Ease is working up, though it is far harder on the hands than Peruvian Highland wool.  I do need to take more frequent breaks, but it is still a great project for my short hop train rides and lunch time knitting.

Knit on.