Blinking thing…

Blink seems to be steadfastly resisting the halfway point and I seem to be spending more time going backwards than I am spending going towards my goal. This scarf is turning out to be anything but the quick knit that I intended it to be. I don’t know what it is – because it is …

It has to be done…

Spin! Beth I think that it has to be done, don’t you?

Socktoberfest

I’ve committed to Socktoberfest. I needed to. We need socks, what with the price of domestic fuel heating oil an’ all… and I also have an ever-increasing stash of sock yarn that needs addressing. So, I shall be banning the interesting stuff for a while and putting away the lace for a little sleep. For …

Spinning Day

I have a migraine brewing today so didn’t fully enjoy my not-spinning (I took the knitting). Highlights were the Sephardic Cake, meeting F’s two new rams, and my bravely greeting Barnaby (even though he showed me his teeth.) Barnaby is a pony, BTW, and belongs to SpinningGill. Or maybe he’s not a phony but a …

Phew!

Well, I survived my patchwork class. I even came out of it without tears (there were just the two swear words uttered) and I brought home two squares stitched from a pair of triangles each. We got homework!!!!! I was wiped out after class. I haven’t felt like that since I was learning Calligraphy many …

Feeling the pinch

It’s getting a bit nippy now the back end of the year is looming. I am going to knit myself some slippers. Pattern and yarn have been purchased.