I see this month's Handwoven talks about using the colors you see around you every day. On my most recent vacation, I'd taken a bunch of random pictures of flowers and whatnot, in which the colors appealed to me in one way or another. I thought great! I'll go home and get some colored pencils and some graph paper and get to it. Then I remembered that my brother (who paints) stole all of my "color pictures" on Saturday. D'oh!

Do I *really* want to spend found money on yarn? That's what my plan was, but I dunno .... When it's hot like this, I can't think about yarn. Unfortunately, my thoughts turn to the opposite sex, which is even LESS constructive. However, I should make it my business to own more than one reed ....

I dragged my one big woven piece out to a pow wow yesterday. That's probably the longest I've ever worn that shawl. It was good. I got some "extra" cash (if there is such a beast) so I think I may buy some weaving yarns and start another project. Time to start thinking about a design and sketching. I should probably look at yarns first, huh?

Well, take this as a good insight into my fiber life. I can go for days and days without even so much as touching a lock of wool. It's always good to remember that there are other things in life. I've picked up 18 books to read in the past 3 days. 5 are on loan from the library, 4 were library purchases and the rest were freebies from the university. And not one of them is even remotely fiber related. I should be finished with most of them by next week. (Some of them I just picked up for curiosity's sake. I'm not sure if I really want to read a book of first-hand accounts from the War of 1812. Or the state of the prisons in England in 1929. But now I can, in case I ever do.)

I've been reading a novel a day almost every day this week. (I couldn't get into yesterday's, and didn't finish it.) The loom will still be there when I need it, and the cat's not interested in my warp chains. It's all good.

Day two. I haven't told anyone this exists. I'm still not convinced that blogging is something I want to do. I still haven't done any fiber projects. Perhaps I do want to blog, but not about fiber. I think that might be the case. Maybe I'll create a non fiber one as well.

I'm really on the fence about this blog thing. I have web space that I never use (except for practice) but I don't know how to best use it. I'm tempted to do the blog just to have something up and let it grow from there. It seems such an exercise in futility. I don't read anyone else's blogs regularly; I can't think of anything I'd write that would be interesting enough for someone to read mine. Plus it's like writing your diary on a bathroom wall.

Well, by way of introduction, I'm a spinner/weaver/knitter. I don't claim incredible competence in any of these endeavors; I do them for my own enjoyment. I've created this web log to discuss my current projects, for whom ever might be interested. Unfortunately, I'm not really working on anything at the moment so I'm a bit at a loss for something to say. But when I start a new project, you'll be the first to know.