Girlfriends and Sisters Week

Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning, the devil says "Oh Crap, She's Up"

I like this. It is time for a new attitude. Too many of us are wallowing and we need to remember how grand life can really be, and to seek out the wonders of it, not just wallow in the muck.

And a special atta girl, to a family who has been sorely challenged this summer. May life only get better each day and have faith.

Spinning Sunday

Spent a wonderful lazy sunday afternoon at Misty Mountain Farm working on spinning techniques. Had a bad habit pointed out to me I didn't even realize I was doing, now I'll have to watch my hands or tape some of my fingers together, learned another drafting technique, and learned to navajo ply! That was a biggie. Didn't even think about asking, but Linda offered and yeah man. Also bought some stuff for ravelry swap partners and something really cool for me. Of course I took the camera, but neglected to pull it out. Will at least show yarn as soon as I find said camera and take pics

Off My Duff

Ugh. okay, let's start again. I finally am getting around to cleaning off the camera and here are pictures of my charity knitting project going to warm woolies. Vest not included but being worn by the indistructable Helen. Whose teeth were punched out by my mom's brother when they were little and he was being a stinky boy about something. She survived grandchildren and has been living with me for the past 35 or so years. Sometimes in the cedar chest becasue for some reason she creeps out my daughter and husband. Probably because she is toddler size and has a vacant start. Oh, but how I love her. And the cats don't seem to be bothered by her so there!

Hat was knit with Yarn Pak chunky and the stripes are courtsey of my phat fiber box (RuLe OuT) Emily Dame-Gibes Kanga Feet - spun sugar" 100 SW Australian Merino Fingering weight, which worked meh with the chunky, but experiment is the name of the game and I really like how it came out.

This butterfly has been hanging around for a few days, either jack hasn't seen it yet, or they've declared a truce. Such a pretty summer afternoon.

Hard Month

It has been a really, really difficult month. Summer is almost over and I declare September first my January 1st, time for reflection and a change. more to come . . . In the meantime, I'm going to take a page out of Jack's book for the rest of the weekend.

Don't bother me I'm exhausted

This is pretty much how I feel . . .

Lace didn't go so well yesterday. Haven't lost faith, but REALLY not pleased. Will keep as learning tool, and I really need to remember with bobin lace that directions are not a suggestion but pretty much do it this way or it will look like crap. Plodding along. The problem now that I'm finding is there is not enough time to do all the things I want to do. I think I'll pick a day for spinning, a day for lace making and a day for working on my sweater. Then the other days I can do what I want which will probably finish sweaters before it gets cold and not feel like nothing is getting done. Of course, I still have to find time to clean and do laundry. Working on that separately.

Yesterday I went to a friend's farm to buy yarn for my swap partner. Got some great stuff I think she'll like and today will get that box ready to do since it was probably due out in the mail last week. I know the partner sending to me is in singapore for the rest of the month and I told her I'd be glad to wait until her return - thinking how cool would stuff from there be? They yesterday when I got home I got another swap assignment. this was after I promised myself I wouldn't join any more swaps until September. But this one is a simple one, 1 yarn and 1 tea. No extras. Wonder how many people will follow that rule? So, get my box put together, go to the tea shop and I'm set :) No package to army son this week since he moved and hasn't gotten a new address yet, but two packages to swap. It is looking good.