Its all true, the boogie girl is real, and you've found her. She knits, sews, spins, does pottery and writes it all down in this blog.
Friday, January 16, 2004
Do you feel lucky? Well do ya, punk?
Yes, yes, I do. I'm doing work that I like. I have good friends. I have a fabulous family and a most amazing husband. I would have told you at any time that he was pretty darn great but I have a special reason today. He bought me my spinning wheel. I had fully expected not to get it but there the UPS guy was delivering this box. At first he played coy and said he didn't get it. which freaked me out that someone else would buy such an expensive gift. Finally he admitted being wonderful. Here it is, she's pretty isn't she? 
Another nice happening is that I've finally gotten back in touch with my friend Martin. I periodically lose track of people and then I get to talk to them again. I'm gonna try and hang onto Martin he was fun to work with and hang out with. I should put up some sort of billboard of all my lost and found friends, maybe I'd get better at making sure to keep track of them. Luz and Scott, where are you? Here's Martin 
POTTERY: I opened the kiln and disaster. Good thing I didn't have it full. One sculptural piece fell over and onto 2 other pieces. So they are unusable but the sculptural piece was the only one that was a keeper anyway, the rest were tests. So I have nothing to show, but I think I know the direction I need to go to finish this design.
SPINNING: I've spun and plied this crappy brown stuff I had, spun up a pretty variegated wool to be made into socks, but there is only 2 oz of it so I'm going to work it in stripes with black unless I make a different variegated Hmmmmm. I've also started to spin up this SW golden brown. Its a nice color and I've got 2 bobbins full at the moment. I haven't decided if I want to ply it or not. I want to use it for socks. I need more roving. I'm going to get more SW and that way I can have some colorful socks. I'm also looking at this one ebay auction from The Yarn Junkie. I loved it when I saw it on her blog. I'm trying to curb the spending so its a wait and see type of thing.
KNITTING: I must be cruel to make all you knitters jump all the way to the bottom and then not give you pictures. Nope, no pics at the moment. I've been spending much of my time spinning. Soon it will be time to knit it all up my goodies. I'm trying to think of something to make my husband since he bought me the wheel, he deserves something nice made from it. He's a hard one to make stuff for. I finished the back of my vest and have gotten the ribbing done on the front. I'll continue with that once I figure out the cable I want to use on the front. The rest of the pattern is all set, I just need the right cable and I have a couple in mind. I frogged my mom's opal socks. The yarn is so stretchy and I felt that I had made it too big. It was supposed to be a toe up pattern, wouldn't i have been cheesed if I did it that way and had gotten most of it done and had to frog it. I started it with one les set of pattern stitches and now I may not have to put elastic in the top ribbing. Well, I'm looking forward to another butt freezing day hiding in my house next to the fireplace.