Tuesday night is spinning night

I’ve had my spinning wheel out a couple of times recently to spin with others. Really great and it’s really fun to do. I don’t know why I don’t get my spinning wheel out at home. I have the same fiber on my bobbin for the last 7 months. This has to change.

I declare Tuesday night spinning night (if I’m home of course).

It worked, I managed to fill my bobbin.



I even started to ply today. It’s not easy to Navajo ply yarn that is either too thin, too underspun or highly overspun. It also doesn’t help when I want to use my electric spinner which decides to overheat after ten minutes and go full force. It would be useful if I was really fast.

I’ll move everything over to my regular spinning wheel.

It’s not fair

I had plans to tell you all how my weekend went. It was great, with good weather and even better company. Before I sat down to start writing I got some horrible news. My brother and sister-in-law’s baby had passed away before it was born.

Last Thursday my niece Lotte was born and today we are saying goodbye to her.

Sick is not fun

Being sick is absolutely not fun when you plan a weekend away. I’ve been telling everybody that I can’t get sick because I’m not missing my fun weekend. It’s going to be a weekend filled with wool, dye, spinning wheels and just lots of fun. So when I suddenly felt really bad yesterday I was far from happy. I called in sick this morning so I could sleep it off.

So what else do you do?



Toss some yarn in a dyebath and hunt around for that one ball of Kid Silk Haze.

I’m feeling much better now.

Cats to borrow

Yesterday when I came home from work I smelled basil. A very nice smell, but I don’t have a basil plant. Once I got to the kitchen I found out where it came from. One of the cats knocked over a bottle of olive oil with basil. The bottom of the bottle had broken spilling oil all over the counter top. Unfortunately for me I had a spindle lying there and half was covered in oil.
They’ve done this before with a bottle with lamp oil. Also managing it to cover my spindle.

Sigh, anybody interested to temporarily take in a few elderly cats? They can be really sweet.

Diet cat

I have 3 cats, a skinny cat, a heavy set cat and a fat cat. Fat cat has to go on a diet. So they’re all on a diet.



I truly believe that the diet kibble tastes as bad as human diet food. It even looks like cardboard. Fat cat isn’t really fond of it. Which I don’t mind.
Skinny cat really can’t lose any weight. It shouldn’t be a problem as long as I keep feeding her extra stuff. Problem is that she doesn’t really like extra stuff, just her dry kibble. She even seems to enjoy the diet stuff. How can I keep her from losing weight? I’ve tried the stuff for kittens (extra nutrients) but she keeps ignoring it.

Black Butterfly

Last year I started spinning silk with merino on my spindle. I did not give an update on my progress. It would have been rather boring. I either spun that week or I didn’t.
I did manage to keep spinning about 10 minutes a day. And even started a shawl.



It’s the Vlinder Shawl from the book Knitting Brioche by Nancy Marchant. Vlinder is the Dutch word for butterfly. I have a while to spindle before I’m done. I did finish a second spindle and I’m plying it. That should give me a bit to knit with.

Cynthia

It’s just like a diet. As soon as I think about finishing more of the projects that I have lying about I start more. This time another mystery, named Cynthia.
I looked for the right yarn right up to the moment the first clue landed in my mailbox. I knew I had 2 skeins of undyed yarn. I wanted to dye that to match the blue beads I had bought. Unfortunately that means I had to find it first.
I tried something with mohair and a lace yarn. Finally I found this.



I bought once because there was a sale. It’s a mixture of wool and silk (with some nylon). Right now I’m working on clue two and I’m really liking the way it’s looking. And the beads match it very nicely. Finally I’m making something that’s completely coming out of my stash.