Spring Cleaning

I finally broke down and threw out all of the fleeces I know I won't ever use. Most of these were stored improperly anyway (read: left lying around). I don't have the energy to go through my cedar chest of 20 year old yarn. sigh. So now I just have 3 fleeces to bring home from the office, and 3 more at the processor ... and 2 in the garage ... plus the ones stored properly. sigh. This is why I can't even look at yarn catalogues any more. The only thing that interests me is Euroflax Linen. I love my linen sweater to death, and I need more of them. (And I have no intention of spinning linen.)

So right now I'm trying to find a kufi pattern. I have a partial ball of organic cotton tape yarn, from which I made a shell. I figure, if I make a kufi, it'll keep my bangs out of my face when I'm playing volleyball, and perhaps suck up some sweat. (I have a terry headband, but my dorkiness does have limits.) I considered knitting wrist bands, but I wasn't sure if it would affect my passing. Which, believe me, doesn't need any sort of impairment. (Not that I have to pass so much; I seem to be stuck as setter this season. Now if I could just get them to run a 5-1 so I won't have to receive at all .... )I used to just wear long sleeves, but we have *uniforms* now ....

I found a couple - there aren't really many out there and none of them are really what I was thinking. Don't tell me I have to design something. feh.

I found a weaving book on sale at the library today. It's Handweaving by Iona Plath. It's old enough not to have an ISBN; the copyright date is 1964. It's mostly 4 harness patterns for upholstery. The neatest thing is it still has the original receipt in it. It was purchased from National Book Company (MU2-3908), 6/30/65, for the whopping sum of $6.72 (+ 20¢ postage and insurance). National Book Company notes "Regret we cannot supply 'Swedish Handweaving'". LCM* of Lounsbury Road in Croton-on-Hudson was the purchaser.

Well, it's a good buy in that it's already provided me with more than $1's worth of entertainment.


*Name and address witheld for obvious reasons. BTW, LCM are my initials too! (And my father's, etc.)

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I'm not sure how I got here today. I was creating a LiveJournal Account (yeah - like I'll blog there any more than I do here - not to mention I set my preferences to display in Hungarian, so it takes effort for me to navigate around.) and tried to type in another URL, but I spelled it wrong and just ended up typing "t" instead of adding "t" to what I had already typed, and that somehow brought me to Blogger. So I figured I'd post.

I finished my computer gloves. That's probably the first project I've completed in what, 6+ months? It only took about 10-15 hours. I should knit more.

I got the WFB fleeces that I wanted. First time in 5-6 years I've been able to score a jet black lamb's fleece. Cool beans. Looking forward to getting those. At least it will give me some new colors of fleece to stare at in my office.

Well, signing into Blogger got me a new Gmail account, so I'm going to go play over there for a bit.

I hear its warm out today. It's supposed to go up to 82 degrees in NYC today. 84 in Philadelphia. The northeast is warmer than Florida. But I wouldn't know, I'm stuck inside.

Now that there is no more windchill, I'm crafting more. I tend to do all of my hobbies outside. Well, except for homebrewing. I've been working on gloves for a couple of days. (Still doing ribbing on 0s) I'm also trying to spin up some space dyed roving from Rheinbeck. I've got a pile of 7 skeins of sport weight wool that I'm trying to figure a purpose for (770 yards blue, 154 yrds eggplant, 154 yrds mauve). Any suggestions?

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Welcome back to the twice-a-month blog. (how pathetic)

Well it's only appropriate as I haven't gotten any crafting done since the last time. I have been thinking about it though. That's probably because we're coming up on shearing season again, and I'll probably buy at least 3 fleeces, despite the fact theat the 3 fleeces from last year have not yet left my office. (Bags of fleece make excellent insulation in a drafty space.)

Also I've been playing over on orkut. I think that's more up my alley at the momemnt because I can talk about homebrewing, then switch to spinning, Hungarian, bacon, or The Tick. I don't feel so pigeon-holed into posting things like "I haven't knitted anything this (week/month/year)", albeit the running theme of this blog, when in actuality, I've been doing lots of other things instead (brewing, volleyball, travelling, etc.)

Well I'm off to the Northwest US next week. Here's to hoping I don't capsize in the river again!