Nanna loves this yarn!

First weaving project!

Ken and Betsy in the park

Bwahahahaha

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I wonder if enjoying "marital congress" is a merit or demerit according to the test?

Jury Duty drained my will to live

Holy crap, but yesterday's jury service was mind-numbingly boring. Don't get me wrong, I totally agree with the cheesy orientation video - the right to be tried by a jury is one of the cornerstones of democracy. It has a long and illustrious history, and the least a participating member of this country can do is vote and participate in jury duty when called upon to do so.

Mind. Numbingly. Boring.

I sat in the jury "lounge" all day. Random breaks. Long lunch. Assinine movies at too low a volume to really follow. At least it weren't soaps, I suppose. I finished my book at lunch. Finished my knitting shortly after that. Sigh. Took a doze. Finally got released at 4.

Got home and took a nap on the couch. It's amazing how draining doing absolutely nothing all day can be! 18 months until I'm back in the pool!

Lambtown! and more spinning

After a mostly sleepless night, Ken and I headed over to Dixon on Saturday for Lambtown! We had a little confrontation with the over-zealous security guys (seriously, it's 95 and above and you won't let people bring in electrolyte drinks? And, really. It's Dixon. No terrorists are going to bomb sheep in Dixon), but then headed in for lamby goodness. I took a quick tour of the standard/cheesy fair-goods, then chatted up the Ravelry folks. Ken discovered that somehow he's gotten celebrity status among the fiber people - he had a couple folks walk up to him and say "Hey, are you Ken?" LOL. Yeah, Ken, that's what happens when you wear kilts all the time! He even had someone take pictures with him LOL.

Meanwhile, I shambled my zombiefied way through the fiber halls and came home with a nice stash of spinning fibers from Tactile/A Verb for Keeping Warm. Verb had a great camel/silk in a pink colorway, and Tactile had some flax and hemp I picked up to try out. Pretty!

Lunch was marvelous bbq lamb sandwiches. (Knitters in my Tuesday group look at me in horror at how much I love to eat lamb. So damn funny.) That gave me enough energy to make it another hour or so. We checked out the mohair judging for a bit, then petted some angora rabbits (I got a 4oz bag of fluff for cheap!) Then onward towards home and naps.

So how's that Tour de Fleece doing?
1. Spinning every day. Yeah, well life sometimes gets in the way. I'm spinning mostly every day, so I'm not feeling like I've failed too badly.

2. Garment. Been slacking, but I should have enough yardage plyed on the bobbin to finish up the sweater. Just need to be home long enough to wash the skein! Not gonna happen this week, probably!

3. Having fun with my Joy. I found a perfect complement to the BFL in silk from Tactile, so I'm spinning up a laceweight silk singles which I'll ply with each bobbin of BFL. Then I'll cable ply. Should look really nice.

4. Loom. Still pending.

5. iPhone. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Ha!

6. Megan over. Still working on that, too.

Le Tour de Fleece pt 1

but first I'm going to whine some more about the weather. Fortunately, today's smoke cover is so heavy that the temps weren't able to get above 100F. My lungs are sooo very hurty. But since I'm an eternal optimist, I can say that it's been a recipe for cleaner living otherwise. Except for exercise; no way I'm dragging this nastiness into the depths of my lungs. Hooray for breathing!

Ok, Tour de Fleece.

I didn't find out about it until very close to the July 5 start, and therefore was already working on goals. These goals are enough for me, so I'll just use the Tour to keep me "honest"

1. Spin every day.
Fail. I took a break yesterday - between the heat I keep whining about and the pollution, I was a very cranky Betsy by evening and took a bath instead. Ken is happy that I'm less cranky today, so I suspect this was actually a win.

2. Spin enough volume with enough consistancy to make a garment.
This is going well. I started at the beginning of last month with koolaid dyed Brown Sheep mill ends (my own dyeing), spun up 6 oz of it in consistant-enough dk-ish, and am continuing to work on the aforementioned shrug. I'm a bit more than 1/2 way through the first sleeve. Doesn't look like I have enough to make the whole thing, but I had some forsight and dyed up another 7 oz when I got back from Oregon. 1/2 is resting on the bobbin - I finished it Tuesday night.

3. Get to know my new Joy.
I'm trying to get a more consistantly thinner single with some nice BFL I picked up at BSG. I'd like to come out to fingering - sport when plyed.

4. Get my loom shipped from Oregon.
Ok, not spinning. But still an important fiber-y goal.

5. get an iPhone tomorrow so that I have no excuse in the photo posting department. Well, and so that I have an iPhone.

6. Get Megan over for spinning :) I have an extra wheel so we can both use one! At the same time!