Thursday, July 31, 2008

Last Day Tour de Fleece and Beyond.....

Sunday I spent the greater portion of the day spinning trying to get Karma Chameleon done. Here is what I ended up with by the end of the day:
TourdeFleeceFinals-2

Submissions close on Friday for Challenge Day and currently we are doing pretty good vote wise. I hope this next week of voting just continues to help improve our odds on winning. Is that awful of me that I'd like to win something?

Along the way movies were watched along with episodes of Stargate SG-1 season 1. Just a couple more of those left and then it's on to season 2.

I couldn't resist finishing up the Basket Rib Hand Towel:
BasketRibHandTowel-1

I also couldn't resist trying out Deep Blue Sea and seeing how it knits up, the background doesn't help the colors:
WIP-DeepBlueSeaSinuate-1 This is one chart of the Sinuate pattern by Marnie Maclean. I've added another repeat and blocked it to see how it is. I think I'll keep going.

We had little visitors to the pond that I don't recognize. I'm wondering if one of their relatives was an escaped parakeet:NameTheBirds-1 Do you have a name for them?

Drop spindling is time intensive. It wasn't until Wednesday afternoon that I finished up all the roving into singles:
KarmaChameleonSinglesDone-1
I then started plying them and even took them to the Wednesday night Sip n' Stitch at Hagen's and continued plying there. I was able to also show Judy and Mac what it looked like.

It's now Thursday and I plan on taking it with me to Insomnia for the Thursday group to hopefully finally get it finished up. I made one of my shoe boxes into a Lazy Kate and it seems to be working much better than the last plying session. I have Brandon tasked with making a drop spindle lazy Kate. He's working on it. The ladies at school are eager to see the finished yarn and what kind of project it can be made in to, so no pressure or anything. Summer school is done this next Thursday so I'll have to find a project for it also and at least start it so I can show why handspinning can be fun.

The rain and clouds were nice earlier in the week. Now we're back into sunny weather and warm, hopefully not too warm again!

School wise things were much better this week. My student likes the computer time-walk schedule that we have going and was even really happy and holding my arm several times today. Hopefully we can end the summer on a positive note.

2 comments:

  1. The yarn came out great! I still haven't tried spinning, but it does look like fun. Sorry I've been such a stranger--work and school have been crazy, and we're leaving for California tomorrow (back on Wed.). Should have more time for knitting and get togethers when I get back :)

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  2. Thanks! Did you vote for it? Shamelessly trolling for votes.... ;^)

    You've got to come to the Wednesday night get together at Hagen's. I've actually made the last three.

    Have fun in California!

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