Less knitting, more spinning

What's more mindless than a stockinette sock? Why, a little spindle spinning...

My new Grafton Fibers FiberShip, purchased at Foxfire Fiber's Open Studio/Barn event on Saturday. (The fiber I'm spinning on it is some of the Jacob that I had left from Rhinebeck.)

This weekend I finished spinning up the BFL that I bought at Rhinebeck. Slowly but surely my spinning is getting more even. See...

That's 3.3 ounces of singles there. Spun with my Golding Tsunami, which I have renamed The Big Kahuna (all 1.9 ounces). I'll have to see what the yardage is, but I'm pretty sure it's around 70-80 or so.

What am I going to knit with it? I have no idea. Right now it just really pretty to look at and touch.

Oh well, time to catch some sleep. More on my visit to Foxfire Fibers later...

Thankgiving wishes...

As I do every year, I'm sitting here watching my favorite parade of all time--the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade (the Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums just went by-COOL!). This year, though, I keep going back and forth between the parade and CNN coverage of horrific events in Mumbai, and it drives home just how fortunate we all are to be safe and sound in our homes and communities, and just how fragile that safety can be.

So I wish you and your loved ones a happy and--most important of all--safe Thanksgiving Day.

Yes, I'm still alive...

I know, I haven't blogged in a really long time, which makes me a very bad blogger. And there's all sorts of stuff that I've been wanting to blog about but haven't, which makes me a really suckie blogger. Especially since it's NaBloPoMo, which I was going to do again, but since I've missed the first nine days of the month I've blown that too. Sigh...

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I've got a lot going on at work right now. Like two huge projects that are full time jobs by themselves. And then there's my paralegal classes, and I'm already behind on work there because of problems getting the textbooks and, of course, the work stuff.

Don't even ask about the knitting. It's been replaced with studying (or dozing) on the train.

So, for the next few weeks there won't be much posting. I'll do what I can--maybe a picture or two--but it may be a while.

I'll leave you with a picture of the one thing that I've been able to do in really tiny doses--spinning!


This is some BFL roving I got at Rhinebeck. I'm using the Bosworth mini (Walnut) I got at the Franklin Fiber Twist last year. Little by little I'm getting the hang of it. And I'm really liking it...