Day 4 More PINK

After 2 more days I am up to 2 inches across. Another 2 days and I will need to start another bobbin, or pack the ones I am using, because I don't have very much roving left.

2-ply? 3-ply? I don't know. As a 2-ply I should have enough yardage to make a large shawl. As a 3-ply, maybe enough for a Rayne sweater, but I only have 1 pound. This is superwash wool, and not of the best quality, I keep picking neps out of the roving.

Still trying to decide. there is no law that I have to ply this as soon as I finish it. I could work on the Shetland because that is small amounts of roving and is to be 2-plied so I only need the one bobbin to do the rest of that. Decisions... Decisions.

Day 2 - another 1/4 inch

This is going to get boring fast, bobbins with PINK singles. And more bobbins with PINK single. Sorry. but I can see some improvement, as far as the progress of filling the bobbin is concerned.

I did learn something: I can use the Schacht Woolee Winder bobbins on the Lendrum Woolee Winder. So I can finish spinning and then ply all at once.

The Schacht Woolee Winder is over 20 years old and needs to go in for an overhaul. So I am spinning on the Lendrum.

On Your Mark, Get Set....

The Tour de Fleece starts today, so last night I took some of the bright PINK superwash wool and pre-drafted it what you see balled up there is the last of the pound of PINK that I have. I will sit down and pre-draft that bit later. Once it is pre drafted I put it into the plastic box (that came from Costco with a bunch of disposable razors in it) so that it doesn't compress again.


I have been spinning this for a while off and on and have 2 bobbins full, and had started on the 3rd.

I need to remind everyone (myself) that the goal here is to spin for 1/2 hour or more every day. It is not speed or most spun or anything like that, it is spin every day!

The bobbin I will start with is 1 and a quarter inches across the core at the moment and an empty bobbins is 1/2 inch so approximately 3/4 of an inch of spun yarn. I have no idea if the half hour will show up but I will try to measure after each spinning session to see how much progress shows. It certainly doesn't show by just looking at it.


Once this is finished I may find that Jacob that I have to spin fast and fat, now that gives a sense of progress, but I don't know, I will decide once the end is in sight with the pink.

That is quite pink is it not. Just makes me happy to look at it.

edited to add: after 30 minutes today the bobbin measures 1 1/2 inches so 1/4 inch added today.

Procrastinating

I'm not much motivated to get anything done, I've already made a list of all the bills (which is just depressing), and filled the pill box for the month. But I just haven't gotten the motivation/energy to start something else. But I can show off my latest acquisition:

I finally finished my collection of Barbara Walker Treasuries. The first 3 are not the new reprints. (I really am old ) So it was time I got the last one, besides it has the Butterfly lace motif that I want to use with the Butterfly stitch from the first to make a sweater for Rayne before she outgrows her love of butterflies.


The Candlelight Kimono has reached the "I'm tired of this and want to knit something else" stage so I am having to force myself to pick it up. Once I have picked it up it is fine and I enjoy the knitting, it is just that I want to work on something new.

I promised myself that once the kimono is at the final blocking stage, (i.e. knitted, sewn up and button loops finished) I can wind the yarn for the Rosy Fingered Dawn Shawl, and once the boy's sweaters are finished and sewn up, I can start studying the instructions, and once the 2 pair of socks are done I can start knitting it along with Sierra's Sweater and also start the swatches for Rayne's. Can't make the pattern for that one until the middle of August, because I need to measure her, which will happen the first of August.

Tour de Fleece

I haven't done this before, but I have wanted to get back into spinning regularly. So my challenge is to spin at least 30 minutes every day. Good thing I have a portable wheel, so I can take it with me when I go to Georgia for DH high school reunion. We have already had a tiff over the accommodations so having the wheel to calm me down may not be a bad idea, 4 days of anyone 24/7 is stressful for me, but someone who is high maintenance as well...yeah, having a de-stress mechanism along can't hurt.

Mystery Shawl Done!!!

Everything but the shouting...SHOUT SHOUT! Okay now that is taken care of. I do have a dropped stitch and a pulled stitch- see it right there by the edge of the center panel. That will be attended to tomorrow morning if it is sunny. The Candlelight Kimono is in progress and is working up the armhole so the fronts of that will be finished shortly. And then the back and that will be done. If you check my projects page on Ravelry you will see that there are 2 grandson's sweaters, one needs sewing up and the other needs its front and sleeves, and sewing up. There are also 2 pair of socks that need to be finished. So those are the goals for the next month. Those socks are ridiculous and either need to be finished or ripped. The boy's sweaters need finishing. So I am proceeding to get behind myself with a stick and get them over with. In July!

Then I can start the oldest granddaughter's sweater, which should take no time at all. And on to one for Rayne. And I need to finish Trip Trap before it gets cold (hard to believe that it ever will with the heat we have been having here).

Father's Day

Brown Guy Socks, with linen stitch toes and heels. Which take for-freaking-ever but should wear well. So the "Why am I bothering, You're not MY father" socks are finished. And we will have dinner tonight and give him socks and cards.

Now I can go back to the shawl and top.

Pride Goeth Before...

Embarrassment. Or something like that. Each of the first 2 clues I have finished on the weekend that they came out, until now. When I went to bed on Sunday I still had 6 rows to do. Or I only had 6 rows left, depending on if you are a half full or half empty sort of person.
But then life fell in on me, and I spent Monday and Tuesday, running around trying to get cars checked out and serviced. Yesterday I worked on the shawl a while at the tire place while they rotated tires and checked brakes and stuff. Then I rushed home and traded cars, and forgot my backpack in my car when I took the van to get it serviced.
I called Carl, who called Dennis, who brought my car into town, supposedly to trade cars with me and then go shopping and meet a friend. But instead I took him shopping before we went back home, because the van was in great shape except for the leak in the radiator, and it isn't drive worthy so the shop kept it and is replacing the radiator tomorrow.

When I checked my schedule on Sunday night there was nothing there. But it sure filled up, on Tuesday the furnace man came at 8, my car to tire place at 10:30, van to shop at 1 and contractor to talk about the roof at 7. This all on a day that on Sunday night at 9 was entirely empty.

Anyway I finally finished the last of clue 3, but it is dark and dreary so the pictures are not great. Has a fight with the Granddaughter, and now I am going to go sit and work on the fronts of the Candlelight Kimono. (While said granddaughter does what we had the fight about, she is not as stubborn as her mother (thank God)).

Sleeves and socks

Megan's socks are finished and ready to mail tomorrow morning.

Last week while waiting for the new clue on the lace shawl, I finished the sleeves for the Candlelight Kimono KAL from Ample Knitters.

I started Megan's socks on Tuesday, and I worked on the socks on Wednesday and Friday(at the dentist), and Saturday until the clue came out. Then Sunday once the clue was finished back to the socks. Now that they are finished it is back to the Candlelight Kimono fronts.

Clue 2 Finished

At 2:05 on Sunday, May 24.

And now I can go back to work on Megan's birthday socks. Which are half way up the first sock cuff. They need to go into the mail by Tuesday, so off to finish.