I'm a Spinner!!!

For about 2 months, I have been looking for a used spinning wheel with the idea of taking up spinning. Yeah, I know, like I really have time for yet another hobby. Any way after about a month of searching, I finally bought a used Ashford Traveler on ebay. It's a single treadle, Scotch tension wheel. It spins beautifully. The lady I purchased it from was nice enough to send me a huge bag full of camel roving to practice with. Yes, I said camel. I spun it, plied it and skeined it with the niddy noddy she sent me as well. Not really liking the texture of the yarn though. It feels like a really cheap acrylic yarn. Oh well. It's just to practice with anyway.

I am almost finished my mom's Mother's Day present. I know it's past already but her and my father are forever out of town so I should be finished it when they get home sometime. I finished my best friends socks. Mountain Colors in Steelhead in a diamond lace pattern. They came out pretty.

I did start another pair of socks but I'm not really working too much on them b/c I'm trying to finish mom's gift. They're Mama Lama in Orchid. They look sort of Easter-y. I'm just doing a basic sock pattern b/c after my friend's socks and my mom's present, I'm kind of sick of lace.

I'm wondering if I'll start having nightmares soon about YO's and K2tog.

Spread the Word!!

Okay Wannietta Prescod asked us knitty bloggers to pass this on. I wish I lived close so I could go because it sounds fantastic!!! If you live anywhere near here, check it out and let me know.

On Sunday, May 27, the Toronto Spiders will take up the International Wool
Challenge (Back to Back Competition) for the fourth consecutive year. This
competition, involving teams around the world, requires that a sheep be
shorn and the fleece spun, plied, and knitted into a sweater (according to a
standard pattern) in one day.

After two years at the Ontario Handspinning Seminar and a year at Toronto's
Riverdale Farm, this year the Toronto Spiders will be at the Pickering Museum in Greenwood, as part of their Opening Day. The team is made up of
Wannietta Prescod (the fastest knitter in North America in 2006), Barbara
Aikman, Julia Lee, Judy Pergau, Denise Powell, Karen Richens, and Lorraine
Smith of Spinners Quarterly. Our shearer is Bob Comfort, and Joan Kass and Judy Findlay will be
our timekeepers and educators. We look forward to having lots of interest
and support from passers-by. Like all Back to Back Challenges, we will be
raising money for cancer research.

We will be attempting to beat our Canadian record time of 6 hours, 51
minutes, and 15 seconds, so hope to finish some time between 4 and 5 p.m.
If you are in the neighbourhood, please do drop by and wave, say "Hey y'all", but don't
expect us to stop what we're doing to chat with you until the sweater is done!

Good luck ladies!!!

Whatever?

I couldn't think of a title so "whatever" seemed appropriate.

Dwayne is sick in bed with strep troat. Poor guy, he can't catch a break. I love him dearly but if he doesn't stop falling apart I may have to replace him with a newer model. Or maybe a richer model. Then I could just knit all day and hire someone to clean house, cook, wash clothes, take pics of everything I finish and write this blog for me.

Seriously, I kind of do that already escept no one cleans,cooks or washes too often. I mean it's only dirt. It's not like it won't be there tomorrow.

I bought some stuff to redo my bathroom. It's the smallest room in the house and therefor the cheapest to redecorate. So, I got a new shower curtain, rug, accessories, etc. Tomorrow I'm going to Home Depot to look at paint. I'm getting that spring itch where I pretty much want to tear down the whole house and then rebuilt it in a day which we all know is just not going to happen. So I'll just dress up the bathroom. Then maybe next week, the bedroom. I'm thinking Morrocon themed. Something romantic. Hmmm. Lots of jewel tones and embroidered silks.

Off to bed. Tomorrow is another day.