Sky and Water II – 15% done – still on target at 1 pattern repeat a day. Merope socks – second sock cast on and rib progressing Flambé – thick-thin bobbin refilled to near catastrophic point, but small quantity of red and orange stubbornly refusing to fit onto it. Purple bobbin 1/3 full. Theoretically I …
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Reeling
Well, I didn’t get in my hour before breakfast, due mainly to being busy packing the car with my wheels ready to go and deliver the morning’s activity session at the school. I think that teaching 8/9 year olds how to spin probably constitutes a reasonable excuse alternate activity. I think that’s at least equivalent …
Skein 2
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 …
Done?
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 …
Phew!
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 …
Slow progress
I have made slow progress today – on everything. Far from reaching the toe on the Merope sock, I find that it is bedtime just as I reach the end of the gusset. There’s a long way to go (I have long feet). So, I am short on the sock, barely begun on the Alhambra, …