The bells are ringing outside.


Arrgh - I'm still sore from the Tetanus shot on Tuesday. My arm is all swollen and hot. If I had remembered how much this hurt, I wouldn't have reminded them that I was due.

I'm not doing anything. I finished knitting one mitten, but I have to spin more to finish the other (2 more skeins - 173 yrds). I have to remember to get my silk exchange out Monday. And I need to spin more for the skein exchange. I also have to do my Hungarian homework. Jaj!

Now Simon and Garfunkel are getting back together! Is there something in the air?

oh ..... my .... god....

Duran Duran got back together!?!? All five of them?!? They're on tour this fall? I was such a Durannie in my youth. I'm just stunned. (And pissed I missed the gig here on Wednesday.)

official site
John Taylor's site

Ugh, a new semester. That's the only thing I hate about Fall - the students come back. Feh.

So I've finally applied some of the mindless spinning I've been doing to some mittens from the Charlene Schurch book (pattern 24). Needless to say, I didn't gauge, and they're coming out big. (I didn't gauge, but the yarn I'm using is the same grist. It was a reasonable guess. I usually get gauge. Actually I still might have gotten gauge, I haven't checked - I just automatically made the larger size.) I'll just have to find a SO to give them to (heheh) or donate them to charity. They're not huge. They'll fit someone, just not me. Well, maybe if I full them a little. But I can just make another smaller pair. Things not fitting never bothered me. Just do it over again and learn from your mistakes. If it's the process of knitting (weaving, etc. ) you like, then what does it matter if you have to do it over?

It's shocking to me that my normal spinning yarn is knittable on 0s! What happened to my moose yarn? I'm a little worried - I have a bobbin and a half of similarly sized singles on my wheel. I was planing to do 2-ply for a sweater. It may end up as a 3 ply or a cabled yarn. I'm not up to knitting a sweater in my size on 0s.

I got a bunch of yarn in the skein exchange that's calling out to be made into socks. I just needed to find a good yarn for the feet. I found a skein of silk/cashmere in the kitchen while I was cleaning. That'll do, pig. The skein exchange was fun enough to do a second - "The Skein that Wouldn't Dye!" I'm hosting this one. This time aroud the skeins are twice as long. I'll probably weave with those.

Didja know that the verb "skein" in Icelandic means to "wipe one's ass"? ... or so I've heard.

My comics source is holding out on me!!! So back to spinning on the bus. I pulled out some merino/silk I had blended in a color blending workshop. As usual -it's not enough to do anything with. (Why is everything I do an exercise in futility?) I do like the colorway I created - not sure how muddy it will be when plied. I'm calling it "tavaszi" (vernal, in Hungarian ... "Spring-y" for those of you thinking WTF is "vernal") It sort of reminds me of blossoming cherry trees; it's got soft pink, light green, brown, and white in it. I'm doing that fine spinning again - like the alpaca from last month. I still haven't blocked that scarf, so I s'pose I could frog it and add the merino/silk in some sort of artful design...

Well, I've got my exchange skeins sent out (Monday) and I'm back in my slump. No spinning for me, my commutes are occupied with the 6 boxes of Marvel & DC comics from the basement of my job. Cool beans! Definitely better than the stuff I've been getting from the library.