Time for the weekly update. Sadly, I have no photos of knitting to show right about now. I’ve been too busy doing stuff and forgetting about the camera. There has been progress on multiple fronts though beyond the wheeling and dealing.
Speaking of wheeling an dealing, the Victoria will have a new home and she will be shipped out imminently. I am replacing her with another highly portable wheel that makes more sense when the other wheels in the collection are taken into account. I’ve ordered a Majacraft Little Gem 2. As I already have a cache of standard bobbins ( Suzie and the Fricke E-spinner) and a Woolee Winder (Suzie) to fit it, as well as the skein winder, it just made more sense than a lone Louet. After I told mom that I was selling the Victoria, she asked which wheel I would use to spin on the boat?! The Hitchhiker had served that role, but she too was in a new home. Not that I spin on the boat all that much, um only once if I recall correctly, but it was enough to put the bug in my head. Add in I had just seen Deb’s little Gem on Saturday, the seed was planted (btw she has an excellent recap of the day). So I went for it. Tax refund and yearly raise time 
It should be here before MD$W, fingers crossed!
So yes, there’s been knitting going on. Evenings have been devoted to finishing up Setesdal. Sunday saw the end of the button bands, Monday I finished the collar and last night I got the sleeves sewed in. Tonight I sew on the buttons and call this baby done. I have some small round buttons from the button box that go perfectly with it. I’ll most definitely be taking pictures of it this evening. Good timing too as the shower is Saturday. I have to admit, I did not enjoy knitting the bands on this thing. The Baby Ull was very splitty on the US0 needles, especially on the purl rows. I was never so glad as to bind off the last one.
Speaking of splitty, I finished the Vesper Neapolitan socks. The colors are gorgeous and I managed to get identical twin socks out of it, but honestly, it is too softly spun for my preferences. I had major issues with splitting and had to watch each and every stitch. Since socks are predominantly my mindless commuting knitting, I don’t want to focus so very much on them. The yarn required me to do so. I finished the last one at the SnB Thursday night. Friday morning I started the next pair. This time using the discontinued and returned to production Trekking XXL 126. I picked it up on eBay a couple of weeks ago (right around when I finally got my hands on the Vesper Neapolitan). I finished the first one this morning. For a change, I’m working cuff down, short row heel and grafted the toe. I cast on for the second while standing on the PATH platform waiting for the train. They’re definitely going to be fraternal twins (unlike the Vesper pair). I’m rather partial to frats for some reason 
Thursday night I also restarted Spring Things. I wasn’t thrilled with how it was coming out in the KSH. While the KSH is a lovely yarn and definitely crack-worthy, I just wasn’t feeling the love with this pattern, not to mention the less than spring color I had picked (though with the way the spring weather has been in this area lately it is appropriate if not gloomy). So Thursday I wandered around MY when I spotted the right yarn. Enter more Claudia Handpaint Silk. The color is "Pink Posey" and if that doesn’t shout SPRING I don’t know what does. And Dorre, after I got home, I did restart it with the smaller US4 needles I like it much better and have gotten through I think 4 of the 13 repeats of chart 1.
Other than that, I’ve been doing a little spinning. About an arm’s length of Spunky Eclectics beautiful BFL roving in the Rocky Mountain High is left on the Suzie. It is spinning up at my standard sockweight. Sunday night I started the Big Yellow Taxi roving from Crown Mountain on the Lendrum Upright. Also spinning up at my standard weight of sock. It goes without saying that the 8oz will take me just shy of forever to spin. Now you know why I have so many wheels! Its the only way I can get some spinning variety without mucking around with settings and changing bobbins. New colorful rovings are on my list for MD$W purchases.
That’s about it for the moment. Pictures of actual knitting soon!
Craft on!
