Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there. I hope your day was as nice as mine. My day started off much later than it normally does. I didn’t wake up until the phone rang at 10AM, which is about 3 hours or so later than normal. Oh there is the rare weekend when I get to sleep until almost 9, but this was a luxury! It was almost too much sleep! As a result, I did a bit of lazing around.
Yesterday I finished up the Campfire singles on the Bordua and plied it with the Womack. Surprise surprise, I even pulled out the skein winder and wound it off the bobbin without making it sit around for ages. I did that with the other two bobbins of plied yarn that had been living on my dresser. Waiting. Here’s the trio of new yarns awaiting a bath:
From front to back:
3 ply Crown Mountain Farm in Shala, which has been aging in stash since 2006 🙂 It measures 314yds and is a fingering weight. I spun it on the Tina using the standard flyer and the faster whorl.
Next is Freckleface Fibers in Denimy, I believe. It is two-ply measuring 374 yds also spun on the Tina. I’m pretty sure I started this the Catskill spin-in in February but my memory is a tad rusty. Whatever it is, I’m liking it 🙂
Finally, the two ply from SeeKay, superwash merino in the Campfire colorway. If memory serves, I purchased it at the Catskill spin-in in February. This ended up being 358 yds.
I’ve got some Into the Whirled falkland wool on the CPW now.
I didn’t spin today, however. I know. If you’ve been around here for previous mother’s days, I usually spend the day outside with the kids and a wheel. Not today. To darn cold. Brrrrr. And windy. Not great outside spinning weather. Didn’t mean that I didn’t do anything crafty. Oh no.
I decided it was time to quit being a wimp, break out the warping reel that I bought on eBay and get busy on those towels I’ve wanted to weave since I got the Baby Wolf. The 24 ends an inch wasn’t the daunting part, but the fact that I needed to measure out 442 ends. {Shudder} That’s alot of ends! I don’t believe I’ve ever done anything that intense. Probably cause I’m a wuss.
So while the twins played with the Wii:
I got busy winding:
442 ends at 6 yards each. That’s a lot of yarn. After having measured out 350 ends, counting them into 50 end bundles, I finally figured an easier way of counting. I pulled out one of them clickers I used to use for knitting and held that while I wound on. As I turned the peg at the end, I’d click. The last 92 ends went far faster that way. Hopefully I’ll remember this approach the next time. No. I did not dress the loom yet 🙂 That’s a monster for another day. I’m weaving a pattern that I got from Webs. It has been sitting around in the box long enough that I can’t remember what the weft color is! I think it might be a cranberry red, but I wouldn’t put money on that.
So now I’m going to kick back, fold some laundry and watch the Sox hopefully take ONE from the Evil Empire. Hope you all had a good day.
Craft on!
3 responses so far ↓
1 Laurie // May 10, 2010 at 6:00 am
Happy Mother’s Day! It was cold up in NH the day before, too.
Tower of Power, that’s what your yarn thing is.
2 Tina M. // May 10, 2010 at 8:42 am
Beautiful skeins, any idea what you want to make out of them, or shall they marinate for a while?
Happy Mother’s Day to you!
3 Ina // May 10, 2010 at 9:34 am
Happy Mother’s Day!