18 posts tagged “spinning”
It was in the low 70s again today. Right now, according to the dashboard, it's 63 wonderful degrees out. Windows are open and air is circulating through. It'd be a great night for a bonfire. I wish they made a candle that smelled like a campfire. And roasting marshmallows. Maybe they do... I should look into that.
Today was another good day. But it was a long one.
Tonight was knit night. We met at Heather's house and so Stella came. Aaaand. So I finished the 1st 4 oz of Tammy's gift yarn. I am so excited to spin the 2nd batch. The coloring is different and will be a lot more exciting for me. But, I am really excited about it. I cannot wait to see it done, because it will be beautimus.
After commenting back and fourth with Ellie, I realized that my newer readers have no idea what kind of spinning I do. You may think I'm looking forward to exercising, and that would be a bold faced lie. Instead, my kind of spinning is taking tuffts of fiber like this:
They are saying 4-8" of snow tonight. Yippee!
Today I finished spinning the laceweight singles for Heather's yarn and started to ply. This has been my first time plying 2 actual-laceweight singles together. It has also been my first lesson of "plying two laceweight singles takes FOREVER". I'm very excited about that. Cause it means that this is a shit-ton of yardage. It's so skinny, even after it's plied! I think that it might actually be fingering/sock yarn when it's done. No way to tell yet, things always change after the twist is set.
What's your favorite thing about yourself?
I'd have to say this would be a catch-22 kind of awesomeness.
See, when I decide I want something, I tend to not give up. Ever. I'm pretty relentless. And it gets old, even for me. It's like a little contest with myself. I try to find something that would be fun, then I race myself to the end. This has resulted in pretty much everything I have, as well as everything I've lost (or ditched).
The first instance of this that I can remember would be a gameboy. I'm not sure exactly how old I was, so let's say that I was in 3rd grade. One of the neighbor boys got a gameboy for his birthday (or something). I decided I needed one too, but that mine would be way cooler than his. So what did I do? I somehow scraped together the money to get one that very afternoon. It was through dedication. It's hard work scrounging through the laundry room and trying to remember all the spots I'd hidden my dollars. Sure, I may have gotten a few bucks from mom & dad, but I'm sure that involved washing the car or something. So. I got my gameboy. I seem to remember the hardest part of the whole process being getting my mom to take me to Target to buy it. I got the clear one. The one that you could see all the sweet insides of. It was way cooler than the neighbors. Funny that I remember their lame gameboy, but I'm not even sure which neighbor it was.
Then there was school. I figured I'd get a degree. Oh, but while I'm at it, why not see how fast I can do it? High school by day, college by night, working full time too? AWESOME! Let's really make it a challenge. And I did it. And graduated high school early while I was at it. Then, I couldn't stop at one degree, had to get two. Why not go for a bachelor degree too? Sure! That last degree didn't end so well though. The college I 'chose' sucked ass and was a waste of time, so I ditched it. I should have known it was going to suck ass, because a guy I dated about 1.5 years before going to said college went there, and his work sucked ass (which was a lot of the reason I ditched him. That, and I swear he had bigger ovaries than I did, he cared way too much.). So, that really should have been a sign about the school.
Then it was a job in my field. I got that faster than I thought I would. But, I guess they saw that I'd busted my ass everywhere else, so why not take me? That worked well, but I got bored there pretty fast. Ditched it for another place that was a better fit. Busted ass there too.
Which turned into a house. And that has been some serious hard work, too. But, it's been worth it, even after that whole "Operation: Drag Out" thing.
Then there's my crafty life. I learned to knit from a book, which the entire knit community will tell you takes patience and persistence. I'm 7 years into that now. Then at the end of last September, I got a drop spindle. In a not even month, I had a wheel. Suddenly, two months later, I'm spinning lace weight and am sooo close to being able to spin without even looking. And that is kick ass, regardless of what you think about the craft.
So, I guess what all this is really supposed to be about is that I'm a really hard worker, so long as I'm into it. And hopefully it's this exact attitude that gets me a forever job at the company I'm temping at... Cause that would kick ass.
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Wow. That was some serious word vomit after not hardly typing at all so far this year.
I've had a crapton on my mind lately. I'm just not really ready to spit it all out. My brain is tired or thinking and trying to map out the 'next step' in all this job search/budget bull shit. Something's gotta give, and hopefully soon. I'd hate for my head to collapse in on itself.
In final news, I got about 1.3 more oz (I really need an electric scale) of Heather's yarn spun up today as well as roughly 2 inches of my tree jacket knit up. Go me!
It's officially too cold in St. Louis:
- Burrrrrrrr
- Soaked the yarn I spun last night, and did some more spinning today. I should have pictures of that relatively soon, I'm not sure how fast I'll be at this stuff.
- My head is wanting to collapse in on itself.
- Wrote out and prepared all my holiday cards today. They'll go in the mail tomorrow morning, so hopefully they arrive before Christmas. This working/holiday thing is really cramping my free time, LOL.
- I have one present left to get. I hope to make time to get it tomorrow...
- Stupid fucking snapfish still has not delivered my corrected items. If they aren't here tomorrow, I'm going to call and really yell. It will make my previous anger towards them seem like polite asking. There is NO REASON it has taken this long to fix their fuck up. None at all. That's the last time I'll use those morons.
- I have been so tired all day. I had crazy ass dreams last night, I think they were so crazy that I wore myself out. I don't really remember anything about them, but I do remember thinking that they were really crazy, possibly even while I was dreaming.
- In just 10 days I will have accomplished my lofty goal of Blog365. This means that if I can make it the next ten days (and I assure you I can), then I will have written a blog every.single.day. this year. I'm pretty proud of me for this accomplishment.
- I actually knitted something today. A little dish scrubbie. It's cute. I'll seam it and take pictures.
- Really, my head is imploding.
- Night time.
Today was a big day. I accomplished a lot. Let's make a list:
- Cleaned the whole house
- Washed all the dishes
- Put away all the clothes
- Went to the Christmas party for my dad's side of the family.
- Made minty snowmen, penguin, and sheep with Jessie.
- Spun and plied some yarn that I'm calling "Mini Mermaid"
