Oh my goodness, I have been neglectful to my blog. This was not my intention when I started.

In the past few weeks I have been working on 2 EZ Baby surprise jackets. One is a natural/peach BunnyHop yarn and the other is Filatura Dicrosa Baby Zarella 409 a pretty green/yellow/blue. I'm almost half way with both and although I can see where I can improve my stitching I'm reasonably pleased.

I have also started spinning on a drop spindle. Let me tell you, if you watch the videos on YouTube it looks like it not so hard but it takes some skill to keep the spindle turning and the fiber drafting. My first attempts are terribly over spun and wormy looking. As I spin a little more each day, I can see some improvement in my spinning. Its still over spun but it looks a little more like yarn. I'm still in the park and draft period of spinning and I have to pre draft the fiber to keep the spun yarn from being too thick. I think I need some lessons. I have been looking for lessons around here but so far they are few and far between-at least 50 miles from home, usually offered on a workday.

I really want to learn to spin and draft on a spindle before I commit to buying a spinning wheel. I am considering Kromski Sonata, a travel wheel. I like its look, the double treadle, the scotch tension and the size. We'll see.

Another Slow Week

Well, nothing much in the way of sewing or knitting has happened in the few days. Sunday was a beautiful day and I worked outside "planting" the bottle tree that Ken made for me. A few Sundays ago we took a ride up rte. 1 to Maine and searched for colored bottles in all the antique stores along the way. We found six or seven but still need eight or nine more to finish it. Some little plants and a boulder will make the area complete. Even with the missing bottles and plantings it make me a little happier when I look at it.

Last night was the last regular meeting of the year of my Saga chapter. We had a potluck supper with a lot of good food and conversation with some wonderful women. There was a Yankee swap after dinner I came home with a telescoping magnetic pin picker upper, a pin cushion and a thread cutter.

Tomorrow morning is the last regular meeting for my other Saga chapter. Some of the ladies are the same but mostly its a different group of very talented sewists.

Tomorrow night is knit night at Starbucks. This is becoming one of my most favorite couple of hours of the week. I become so relaxed drinking my large decaff Cafe Mocha and knitting with woman who were strangers just a few weeks ago. I will knit on my socks for a class on Thursday
night. I am learning how to knit 2 socks on 1 circular needles. I'm not sure I'm liking this but I will finish the socks before I make up my mind.

I am fast becoming a lover of knitting socks. I love the yarn, the little stitches and the making of the knit stitch over and over until I have something soft and warm to comfort a loved ones foot.
I signed up for the summer of socks on ravelry and am hoping to get a few pair done for myself and the hubby. Time will tell.

WELCOME

Welcome to my blog!

One of my objectives for this blog is to help me organize my crafting life. I have so many craft project started (I'm sure that I am not alone in this) and they are all over the house in different piles, bags and boxes. When I want to find a project it takes me so long to dig everything out that the crafting time as run out and nothing gets accomplished.

Another objective I hope to meet is to hold myself accountable for each new project I start. If its right here in front of me then I can't hide it in a bag and pretend that it doesn't exist. In this economy it doesn't make sense to buy materials and then not produce a functional or beautiful result.