Sometimes wrong is just right!

Hi folks!

I got the carpet cleaned today, and I just got my computer set back up again. I managed to ply the singles yesterday. I will get pics up as soon as I can. I still need to wash them as well. Anyway, I couldn't do a thing today with everything I owned in the wrong rooms. I have a big day ahead of me tomorrow!

Anyway, I heard this on the radio this morning and it made me laugh! I think the lady took it very well when she decided to stay!

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=b3f2600b-a2a8-4c78-9d38-1fba45df7f0a

Hope it brightens your day, and tides you over until I get my yarn pics up!

A good day

My spinning is getting better. Hopefully I am not boring anybody with all this, but at least I am posting! I am getting a lot more proficient with practice, and I am also becoming much less afraid of the wool, as in, not so scared I am going to tear or ruin it. Plus I am doing more prep work, which I think is helping. Here is a pic of the last bit I spun:

And just for reference, here is a pic of the other stuff, from oldest to newest, so you can compare quality:

(sorry the pic is blurry. It's hard to take pictures at night)

I still have a little bit of the roving left, I will probably finish it tonight, and tomorrow I will have to figure out how to ply it. Then wash it, hang it, dry it, measure it, knit it, etc. You never know. Anyway, it is sort of satisfying to see all that fuzz smooth out into threads, right before my eyes.  But I am running out of wool! (she says as she eyes the cat and the hair clippers...)

Anyhoo. That is not all I accomplished today. I made bread, tidied the kitchen (for me, that is an accomplishment) and most importantly....

Took Ian to his first day of preschool! Yay!

Look how super cute he is, and such a big boy!

Happy to be there:

Hat and bag off...

Hung in his cubby...

And off playing without a backward glance!

Last night when I reminded him it was his first day of school, he was so excited! I asked him what the teacher would teach him, and he said "about vacuums!" and the first thing he did was run in to the toy vacuum. No tears (not even me), just happy to be there. He was one of the few, though. You could hear the heartbreaking wails from the other kids at the other end of the building!

Later on, when I went to pick him up, he runs up and says "Mama I PAINTED! And my FINGERS WERE CLEAN! I painted NICELY!"

I am glad we had a good day!

All Spun Out

I spun a bit more tonight, couldn't wait to post it. Here are my new singles on the spindle:




They are a lot more even. Not perfect by any means, but better. I believe it is about the same amount of fibre as the first batch, but it only took me about an hour, not three. I learned a lot from Youtube, I will post a link tomorrow to the most instructional videos.



You can see how much better it is than the first batch in this picture:




I guess I can go to bed happy:

New Skillz. I haz them.

So I bet you are wondering why I posted a picture of a tiny ball of Yarn of Questionabl Quality (aka YQQ) yesterday...even though if you were wondering, you didn't comment. Well, maybe I can explain by showing you this:

Yep, it's a spindle, and some furry fur. Which should shortly be spun into more YQQ, and plied together to hopefully be slightly less questionable. Then I will make it into something. Something sucky, no doubt. But it will be mine. And I shall be proud. And I will be one step closer to Little House in the Big Woods.

That isn't the only skill I have added to my repertoire... I also learned to cut hair! Observe Experimental Subject A:

I don't know if he is enjoying his HQQ (Haircut of Questionable Quality) But look at the heap o hair that came off the child: (foot included for perspective)

(hmmmm.... I wonder if I could spin that?)

At any rate, he looks pretty good for his first day of preschool tomorrow (yay)

And amidst all the spinning and haircutting, I stumbled across this half knit sweater, and what with fall approaching, I thought I had better get cracking. So here are the latest pics of my Anty Beryl Sweater:

The ants are gone, but the sweater lives on!

Big post later today...

But while you wait, sit back and have a glass of wine or two:

Something to think about.

Yum!

Me: MMM! This corn is sure juicy!
Ian: And I don't like corn juice.
Me: You don't ?
Ian: No. I just like sucker juice.