Monday, Monday..

Can't trust that day! Especially at this time of year. It was cold-ish and windy and overcast... Long about 5:00 this evening, we were under a tornado watch. There were confirmed tornadoes about 40 miles south of us.

I don't know if I said anything before, but I have a new job. I am working on the 2010 Census. There will be crews in your neighborhood in the next few weeks to months. I spent last week in training in Lincoln. It was a lllloooooonnnnngggg week! Most days this week, I get to work here at home getting ready to train my crew starting Friday. I get to drive to South Sioux City and kick things off. Then, Sunday, I drive back up and stay the night so that I can be there for training starting Monday.

I think that it will be fun. And, it's money that I can use to fuel my spinning and knitting habit! I have lucked into some alpaca and llama fiber that all I have to do is either shear it myself or pay someone to shear it for me. The gal has said that she hasn't done anything with the fiber in the past few years, so there's a chance that it won't be useable for this year. But come NEXT year... whoa nelly... 7 "blankets" of llama and alpaca for my spinning pleasure.

I made my first hat. It was a Jayne Cobb hat for my friend Holly. I made it with Trina yarn by Adrienne Vittadini in Maize, Terracotta, and Orange. It's 55% Merino, 35% Microfiber and 10% Cashmere. It is so cool, as in nifty. And the best part? She LOVES it!!! I finished it and took it to her this past Saturday. She wasn't feeling too well, but she perked up a little and put it on her head. It was 70 degrees out, but that's okay.

Not a whole lot else going on... I just spun up the last 4 ounces of the Corriedale that Harmony brought with her. I thought that I had divvied it up well enough that I wouldn't end up uneven amounts on the bobbins, but I did. So, now I have to figure out how to divide that in half and then splice it to the yarn that I've already plied. I would love to have it be a whole 4 ounces. It will be a better amount to dye and then knit up in to something wonderful!

Okay, that's been my Monday! And then some. :D

It's Friday!

Okay, I know I haven't posted anything in a week or so. Or has it been longer? I lose track of time so easily lately! I think the computer keyboard has crack in it that I am absorbing through my fingertips!!!! Or is it the monitor and my eyes? Either way, I'm spending a lot of time with the laptop.



Oh, and Ravelry is laced with crack, too!!! I belong to a couple of groups. Some of them are more active than others... I swear, I can sit down to look at whether or not something from a swap was sent to me, and the next thing I know, I've read all of my "watch this post" posts and lurked in the Rub My Lamp swap, and looked at all the cool pooling, and checked out who's selling what, and 3 hours have gone by!!!



I recently participated in a secret swap in the Karma Swap group. I had a lot of fun stalking my swapee. I got to stalk Sewinggoddes. She is a pretty cool gal. She is into costuming and anime and Japanese stuff.



And, I received a bunch of cool stuff! Pocketmouse1189 was my stalker. I think she did a fantastic job putting together my package. She gave me a spindle and some plain white merino roving. There were pattern markers (the magnetic kind from Kataish), a small project bag (into which I immediately put Bunny's socks-in-progress) There was also a felted "doodad" bag made especially for Harmony. There was a skein of SWTC Pure soysilk yarn in a gorgeous purple. To top it all off.... she commissioned a special colorway "Yin Yang" from WhereStillnessDwells' Knit Bun Purl Bun etsy shop!!! It's a really pretty purple and blue merino roving that is just waiting to be spun up...

I just tried to upload some pictures into this page but they didn't work... I guess I'll just have to go the round about way and publish from flickr.

Gotta wrap this up. Bunny called and he's on his way home from work. He was letting me know he'd need the computer as soon as he gets here to take a quiz in one of his classes. Maybe when he's done with that, I'll come back and put up those pictures. In the mean time, if you really want to see them, you could go to ravelry and look them up in Karma Swap Swap, cuz I don't have them in my profile or projects anywhere.

OOOOOOHHHHH! Speaking of projects.... I am knitting up the first yarn that Harmony and I spun and that Bunny and I dyed. It's becoming the famous One Row Handspun Scarf by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (Yarn Harlot) and it's coming along fabulously!