Wishy washy

(This was Tuesday)

1. On Tuesday it was HOT
2. DAMNMNMNN Hot
3. We camped out in the lounge room eating snacks and hiding under the air conditioner
4. That night (Tuesday) Slinky (of the Black Cat Malinky variety) had a fight with another cat
5. The next morning I found out he had some yucky ‘puncture wounds’ in his hind legs
6. $108 worth of vet later and he is fit as a fiddle
7. But he doesn’t like the squirt of antibiotics I have to give him down his neck twice a day
8. I don’t like giving him the squirt of antibiotics either
9. Such is life
10. Today is colder
11. Heh heh – that means it’s 17 degrees C
12. Crazy weather
13. I have found some blogs I enjoy
14. This is one 
15. and This is another
16. And another
17. I could tell you the reasons why I like them but it doesn’t seem important suddenly.
18. I just do
19. I read Rox’s blog today which took me to No. 15’s blog which took me the long way around to this lovely etsy seller and I bought these lovely prints
20. Naughty Rox.
21. I have been spinning up the dyed gear and have totally enjoyed the difference of all three fibres
22. It’s rather exciting, but at the same time scary, to spin with a hope of creating enough yarn to make a garment
23. Gulp
24. I am trying not to think about that.
25. I have been slogging away at my ‘that which shall not be named’ project
26. ….by that I mean the Habu jacket
27. (Ha! Just named it)
28. I decided to do the fronts and back all in one piece so I didn’t have to seam up the sides with the teeeeeny tiny thread.
29. I am almost up to changing to one teeeeeny tiny thread with the cotton instead of 2 teeeeeny tiny threads (Please note RoseRed)
30. I am feeling wishy washy about all other projects until I complete this project as I feel it has been going on too long.

And I think that’s enough for today. Anyone got anything they can add to that? Random thoughts and links (but not spam spam spam) appreciated. Fanks. 

In fact. I feel a little fibre giveaway coming on.

Leave a comment with a link that is interesting and random to go into the draw.

Up for grabs will be 100gms of sock yarn I have in my stash.  And maybe some other stuff too. So I might take 2 bites of the apple. 2 winners! Hurrah.

(And for those interested I am going to do a destash on the weekend)…..all this spun fibre is piling up and I need some space.

When times presents itself

I go for it.
Snaffled a few hours on Saturday when no-one was around.

So I got some fibre out and dyed it all. This is a deceiving shot as there is a total of 800gms here all looking nice and neat and tidy. But there was an awful lot of it blowing around when it was drying.

First up  is 200gms of EGMTK’s blend of BFL/bamboo/viscose that Miss Mandie let me get (un-dyed) .I decided to dye in a few deep dark colours and called it Winter Wonderland.

Beautiful and rich and deep dark purples/reds/blues/greens/yellows/ and lots of other colours.

Want to spin it asap ……….

But  I have 300 grams of beloved Margaret Peel Superfine merino that I have been hoarding for years.

It wanted to be deep dark reds/blacks/with flashes of yellow to break up the colour a little. There is enough there for a whole garment I hope

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I have had trouble getting my face out of it as it is SO soft….

but then I do have….300grams of EGMTK merino silk blend that begged to be all sorts of greens.

I called it Pickled Cucumbers.

ZOMG! So soft.

So now – my wheel runneth over. Too much choice.

Funs…..

Isn’t it.

Life that is.

And friends.

Tonight I went out with 5 other chicks. The ones I walk with occasionally. Some I have known for years. Some I didn’t even know I knew back in high school. Now we are together through the kid’s school. But also through friendship.

We laughed. We chatted. We ate. We drank. Not a lot. Just a little.

Life’s brilliant isn’t it when you can celebrate something as simple as life as we know it. Something as simple and as complicated as our kids trials and tribulations at primary school. Or to sit and chat about an upcoming holiday (6 weeks in Europe no less) of one of the girls. We discussed the shortcomings of a certain teacher. We discussed a wedding 10 years ago. We discussed holidays and lack of the flushing toilet on camping trip. Heck we even covered circumcision. It’s all out there with girlfriends isn’t it.

I came home buzzing in general. And switched on SITC. Love re-visiting that show on Austar.

Friends. And Life. And peoples to share it with.

Life’s good really isn’t it.

Stretching

myself.

Well. I would like to…but that’s not what I am talking about.

Just making myself do some more stuff on the wheel than I got into the habit of doing with my Ashford Traditional.

When I first started to spin I was entranced with funky slub yarns.  Got the Plucky Fluff Books when they came out. Used to spin a mean slub (these  are one that sold from 4 years ago).

1. Bahama Mama, 2. Urban Grind, 3. Jewel of the Nile

I could see how clever it was to add all sorts of stuff to skeins but I like to wear what I knit/spin and I couldn’t work out what I could do with the funked up skeins. But there is a kind of magic to whip up something in an hour rather than the 6+ hours it takes to get 100gms of thin stuff spun and plied (yep – 6+ hours).

Crazy Mel and I are off to the Blue Mountains Insubordinknit workshop for 2 days next March. I figured I’d best start on playing with some crazier gear to get my hand it. (I am fairly certain Crazy Mel, lurker, won’t care that I call her Crazy Mel).

Just the Facts, Jack

Here’s some of my lovely Politically Incorrect batt that I tricked up – nice singles plied hairy scary like with some black zephyr. Mad – and totally insubordinknitworthy me thinks.
1. Just the Facts Jack, 2. just the facts jack, 3. just the facts jack

Then – when a certain fibre club offering hit my doorstep last week I had a go at some thick and thin slub. Not as easy as it usually is with all that lovely viscose/bamboo slippery sliding stuff in amongst the bestest colours ever. Had to spin it, set it and do a bit of s ’spit and rub’ on the ’slugs’ as they didn’t want to stick together. It is SO soft and the colours POP.

She Spins Sea Slugs by the Sea Shore.

1. Sea Slugs, 2. Sea Slugs, 3. Sea Slugs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So that’s a start. I am going to have more of a play and may put some offerings in the etsy store. Who knows?

Mud Dance

Hole/Spade + Water + Cousins-that-live-far-away + Buckets = MUCHO FUN

I apologise for the crappy video but you get the idea.