Woolgathering

A second skein of the inferno has been produced, just as lovely as the first.

I have knitted some sock. I still have 3″ of foot left to do. It seems to go very slowly at this stage of a sock. I wish that I had delicate little girlie feet *sigh*

The only goal left to realise today is the knitting of one repeat of the scarf. That is looking dubious at this stage.

I do believe that I am done with preparation for now. I have carded the pink dyed fleece and cleaned the carder. I found the box with the various colours of Shetland in… I think that’s my lot until we begin to pack the car.

There are bags and boxes everywhere that I look.

Time for a little gentle spinning, perhaps. Or maybe I’ll knit socks until coffee time, then get my wheel out. Must mend Hebbie too, before tomorrow.

Well, I did manage to do some spinning before breakfast - inasmuch as I have not yet had any breakfast. We tend to rely on Nell to get us up these days, she’s normally better than any alarm clock but today she slept in - and so did we. I sat down to spin at 8:45 am and re-filled my bobbin of thick and thin red/orange Inferno. Later on I hope to re-fill the purple bobbin and maybe ply some more off. I confess that I have not managed the full hour yet.

Most of my day so far has been filled with collecting things together ready for tomorrow. I don’t think that I need a car, I think that I need a removal van… so I have elicited a promise from Mr L that he will help me load up in the morning. I don’t want to pack the car tonight for fear of condensation, which won’t mix happily with spinning wheels and looms and fibre etc.

Also this morning I have prepared a little fibre guessing game - with 20 16 pictures of assorted fibre sources and empty boxes to match to numbered fibre samples. What I have not yet sorted out is any form of prize.

I just thought of another game - but don’t think I have resources available to set it up - but we could have played “fastest/best nostepinde winder” if we had some measured lengths of yarn. That would have kept them quiet for ten minutes

Loads left to do - carding fleece and combing dogs, finding fleeces in the store room… but I am going to treat myself to half an hour’s knitting on my sock before cooking lunch.

I still have to reach the daily goal of one pattern repeat on the scarf as well.

It’s all go.