One Crazy Fiber Lady

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Have a lovely weekend.

Craft on!

And so starts another week. It is Monday again. Is It me or does it always seem like it is Monday? Oh well. At least it was a quiet weekend.

I had a multiple spinner personality on Saturday wherein I spun three different fibers on three different wheels. First up was new fiber for the cpw. This fiber is the May-June SAL in the Starcrossed color way- Bfl iirc. I spun a little of it before inspiration hit that i should use the van eaton production wheel as a production wheel. For a while now I’ve been spinning a huge bag of processed cvm on the vermont wheel. I decided to give over the remaining several pounds to the VE. Sadly about half a bobbin in, my newly bum foot was complaining pretty loudly. I hope that this is a temporary unhappiness and not something more permanent.

The schacht has been empty for far too long so it was time to get spinning on that wheel as well. I went shopping in the stash and came up with this ITW merino blend roving.

So there you go, three wheels – three fibers in one day. Wait make that four. I finally got around to plying the two pounds of grey BL that I bought at Rhinebeck this year and spun on the VE. In the end I have 1280 yards of Aran weight that will become a Rhinebeck sweater of some design or another for this year

Yesterday was turned over to the needles. I did a little dead project frogging on Saturday and reclaimed a number of yarns including this lovely lace weight merino that I started knitting a shawl with last summer I think (could have been the previous summer – must check ravelry to be sure). I repurposed it to become the Whisper cardi. I cast on after breakfast and here is where I start this morning.

Craft on!

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…and a wheel followed me home.

This one is a double treadle Roadbug by Merlin Tree. Yes I was still looking for a perfect wheel for the boat. The Journey Wheel is good and small but a tad heavy. I wanted something small with two treadles (thanks to the now injured left foot a single treadle isn’t the happiest thing for me on a small wheel). My first stop after hitting the fairgrounds at Cummington was Dave’s booth where I tried out the DT version and was happily spinning along for a while. No surprise that I bought it. I did leave a wheel wit Dave though. I gave him that mismatched CPW that I got in February. That thing had a drive wheel too big for the table, a frankenwheel if you will. I gave it to him for parts. I’m glad to be rid of it.

Anyway, now I have a small light wheel for the boat and got to use it there this weekend. Worked out nicely even if I had to carry it from way across the marina parking lot. Wouldn’t have survived carrying the journey wheel that far. The yarn you see draped on the bag is the first skein off the bug. It is 4oz of BFL fro Spunky that I also got at the festival. It is approximately 310 yds. Not my finest of spinning but will do as sock yarn or maybe a hat for the kids. I should probably get a head start on that this year and not wait until October

Time to head to the train..

Craft on!

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Someday I’m going to frakin’ learn to not code something before the designers are finished designing.  I just frakin’ wasted a day and have to rewrite 3/4 of what I wrote.

Shit.

Raise your hands if you’re even remotely surprised by this latest addition to my collection.

After a few years of practicing law, I have realized that my law degree is useless and that I don’t want to be a lawyer anymore. I bought it for over $150,000 (brand new), but I will let it go for $112,281, which is the current outstanding amount of my student loan balance.

It measure 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Cum Laude version. It’s printed on super-fancy parchment paper (looks like the Constitution, but newer).

This priceless collectible will permit you to be surrounded by hobby-less, anal assholes whose entire life is dictated by hourly billing and valued by the number of typos they can pick out in any given document. Additionally, this piece of paper has the amazing ability to keep you from doing what you really want to do in life, all in the name of purported prestige and financial success. Finally, superficial girls will swoon over you with retarded thoughts of “sugar daddy” when they hear that you are a lawyer.

Please note that this piece of shit isn’t even written in English. It’s in Latin, but I have the translation.

This is actually a serious post. I will really sell this piece of shit. $112,281 or best offer. E-mail Alex.

It was really here.  I wonder how much I could sell my non-cum laude version for And people wonder why I gave it all up to become a software developer!

Craft on!

moving stuff around… testing

Thanks for the feedback on Victoria’s tattoo. ¬†I’m pleased with it and the Red Sox socks make me giggle when I see them. ¬† Here’s a picture of the artist, Don, in progress.

Don is a friend of JessaLu’s who details cars. ¬†He did the tat on her Amelia and she arranged for him to come to Tina’s Stitch & Spin this past weekend. ¬†Excellent pictures and summary there. ¬†I again thank Tina for hosting and Jess for reminding me.

I got a bonus in that the folks picked the monkeys up at camp early on Friday and took them directly to the boat.  This meant I could go to the S&S alone.   I had the house to myself Friday night!  It was eerily quiet.  I had a relaxing evening and drove up early Sat morning to meet Jess at a diner in Catskill for breakfast.  Have I mentioned I hate the stupid NY State Thruway?  Well I do.  Two lane highways should be illegal!

Sigh.  Anway, I had a stressful drive up as traffic either flowed way fast or slowed to a crawl for no apparent reason other than a dingbat in a crappy car that was too scared to pass a truck.  Add in that my 2.5 yr old Magellan GPS refused to accept input of an address.  I was free to get assistance to any previously entered address, but any street I tried to input in 3 states were rejected for being invalid.  I had to use the Google nav on my iPhone.  But then again, I had battery issues there and a crappy arsed charger that actually drained the battery.  Grrrr.  After breakfast, Jess and I hit the local Walmart and I picked up a good charger and a new TomTom.

There’s also something about driving in upstate NY that turns my car into a animal killing machine. ¬†In all the years I’ve been driving, I had exactly 2 roadkills. ¬†Now? ¬†The last two trips have doubled that! ¬†Last trip was a ground hog, though if it hadn’t of been my car that took the little guy out, it would have been the 18 wheeler behind me. ¬†This trip? ¬†A bird or two. ¬†Sigh.

Moving along, last week was the Trike-a-thon at school.  Alex completed the most laps for his class at 26 while Kat came in at 22.  The school was able to raise $1,500.

Thanks for the donations!  Random number generator selected JessaLu as the winner of the Malabrigo sock and I was able to hand deliver it to her this past weekend.

Gotta write some code.

Craft on!

The twins will be participating in a trike-a-thon to benefit St. Jude Children’s Hospital on June 24th (I know, I just got the form!).

If you would be interested in sponsoring them, either through a fixed donation amount or a per lap amount, please either email me at (risa AT crazyfiberlady DOT com) or leave a comment to this post. ¬†Or you could send a paypal to ¬†me at (risaphil AT gmail DOT com). ¬†Please make sure you don’t choose the option to pay for goods. ¬†We’d like as much $$ to go to the charity and not paypal’s fees.

I offer up a skein of Malabrigo Sock in Boticelli Red to be randomly drawn from those who donate

If we get enough sponsors, I could probably dig up a few more prizes, maybe even some handspun.

Thank you!

Craft on!

I blame the wool fumes: