One Crazy Fiber Lady

While I might have learned over the course of the Olympics, that if I focused, I could finish a project rather quickly.  Do you think that lesson has sunken in?  Don’t fool yourself   While I have been working on Klaralund, and did finish the first sleep and the second is well underway, it hasn’t been the only attention getter.

First let me preface by saying that I spent a good portion fo the weekend doing pre-moving sorting and pitching.  I freecycled a buttload of kids clothing and managed to sort out that bin of older yarn in the stash.  (Sorry nothing is worthy of a stash sale and went en masse to a freecycler.)  I’m happy that I no longer have 2 years worth of outgrown clothes cluttering up the kids’ closet.  I’ve also gotten their spring 2T and next sized clothes gathered in a spot as well.  The yarn bin now houses the entire stock of Patons Classic Merino, which btw is far larger than I expected it to be.  These are good things.   

While I was busy being a worker bee, cleaning and sorting, the midget destruction squad was busy elsewhere.  I would emerge from the bedroom with a bag of clothes to find they had emptied the bowl of Science Diet Feline Growth formula kitten chow all over the kitchen floor.  I have to question their ability to understand spoken english as in "Don’t Touch." doesn’t seem to make much sense to them.  Sigh.  Alex managed to get into both my foundation makeup (shut up, I own some even if I never wear it) and some spikey hair gel after being told umpteen times not to touch stuff on mommy’s dresser.  Double sigh.  This too shall pass, right?

Anyway, the short people and this whole gotta pack and move in the next month and a half, left me awfully twisted yesterday.  So what do I do when I’m in that state?  Spin!  I pulled out the Lendrum and filled another bobbin of the BL/Wensleydale and am ready to ply it tonight.  Should be good for the first hour of the double ’24′ tonight (woot).  Still not satisfactorily unwound and as it wasn’t bed time yet, I pulled out my Tina and went back to work on that yummy peachy colored Merino I bought in Cummington and spun the last time I got all seirously twisted in December.  The bobbin in the front is a multicolored merino/tensel blend and the back is the solid merino.  I’m ready to ply the first batch tonight as well.

I looked up from my spinning last night and saw Sara comfortably out cold on the couch.  Tongue sticking out.  Situation normal.  She had a big weekend as she went for a checkup on Saturday and got herself a shot or two.  Well behaved, certainly better than the destructo’s strapped into the stroller torturing each other.

Sigh.

Craft on.