Busy Weekend!

Friday afternoon Kim W. dropped off some pink and purple superwash roving that she had tried to spin. She's the one that loaned me the Louet S51. She's cleaning her stash room and asked if I could spin it up for her. It's very pink:

I started working on a Pure Soysilk Soliel top for mom for her birthday. Her actual birthday was Wednesday. With working I had a good portion of it done before Saturday when I saw her, but not finished. She flew up from Sparks, NV Friday afternoon. I got it to the point of just needing to seam up the shoulders and do the crochet Sunday night. I could have had it done on time if work and then doing activities with her hadn't interfered. (Okay, poor planning on my part!)

Here it is all done:


Saturday was shopping and lunch at the Streets of Tanasbourne and then chatting at Magnolia Park. Sunday William and I drove over and picked up mom and Aunt Mary and we drove up the gorge, took the scenic highway to try to visit Multnomah Falls - no available parking, very busy! So we headed further east and then crossed over the Bridge of the Gods to Stevenson and checked out Skamania Lodge. We then stopped back in Cascade Locks for ice cream before heading back to Gresham. Chatted for a while then headed home.

Monday morning I was up early so I could meet up with Cindy with her large black Starbuck's coffee to carpool to Twisted's 2nd Anniversary sale. They announced they were giving away goodie bags to the first 50 customers. We got there at 9:30am and there was already one person in line. Very quickly there were more people in line:

Goodie bag contents, Wine cozy pattern, pen that also has a tape measure, four cedar balls for stash safety, tip protectors, a Soak sample and a ruler:

I went with a purpose. To obtain Ochre Malabrigo Sock yarn for the Orion sock pattern. To take advantage of the 10% discount I found some size 6 glass beads and a bronze clasp that I think will look nice with the planned future February Lady sweater. Purchases:


After the Twisted trip I met up with mom, Aunt Mary, William and his friend Luke and we headed to Seaside. Mom's cousin Patty lives there so we combined a visit at her place of business for lunch before heading to the shops and the beach. Some salt water taffy did come back home too. Beach views:

Spinning class

Friday I worked at Hilhi, which was nice since I hadn't worked the rest of the week. Too many playground duty subs sent my way last week. I did let Will drive to Fred Meyers to pick up a prescription he'd been wanting to get, so he had some driving time.

I then rushed to a Drop Spindle class at The Knitting Bee. Some of you may be scratching your heads over that one since you know I've already taken such a class. Different instructor and since it's been a year, I was hoping to learn something new. Anita was great and it was a totally different class than I took from Trish. I learned so much and actually walked out with a lot more spun yarn from the class too. Awesome class and I highly recommend if you have a chance to learn from Anita.

Fun talking with Kelsey, who sat in on most of the class too. She was going through multiple rovings she had on hand during the class, beautiful colors too. I shared info on Knitting Daily and showed my stuff on Ravelry to her. This helped me find some Berroco Cotton Twist to use on a couple more Scalloped Edge Bead Necklaces and a choker.

I still want to make some of my own drop spindles. Brandon thinks I may be able to try on his big lathe before making the investment in a smaller one.

I still have some corriedale roving to spin up and then ply on the drop spindle. I hope to get that spun, then plied today. I want to make one of those shoebox lazy kates too. Not that I need it for the corriedale, but I will for the roving from Knit/Purl, the Blue Face Leicester Sliver.

I think it would also be cool to make some WPI wooden tools that I saw someone had made. I think I could do nicer ones though.

Arriving back home from class to find that the D&D game was going well.