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.
Monday, January 19, 2004
I have fiber coming out of my ears
Maybe that's why I can't hear anything my husband says?
Knitterly: I did finish that charcoal grey vest and now I'm thinking I don't want a vest but a sweater so I may be adding sleeves to it, such indecision I'm surprised I get anything done. I'll get photos soon. I have been working on the Opal socks. Very nice but the pattern I devised seems to be coming out differently than I had hoped. I'm still pluggin away at it hoping for the best. Worst scenario is; they're ugly, I wear them, and buy my mom a new skein. No, I'm not frogging them. I'm so tired of frogging. I never liked froggin anyway. No photos of those either. But I have a roving photo. 
This is one of the rovings I dyed today. I've gotten a little inspiration in getting them colored. I realized that I need to go to Dharma and get some more dyes. The only dyes I have are koolaid and lighter girlie colors. I love the candy colors koolaid gives, and the other rovings that are drying were done with that. I'm not really a pastel person. I'm hoping this dying block is just a lack of desirable colors. This pastelly roving; I have half of it spun and will start the other half tomorrow so I can ply it. I have no idea what I'm going to do with it. Socks come to mind (haha) If they ever leave my mind. What is this obsession anyway?
By now you may be asking why I am stuffed with roving. My stash may not be as great as other fiber ho's but its big for me. On top of the purchased I showed down below. I'll wait while you scroll to check it out .................... I have 4 superwash coming in colors)blues, purple, and red). I have a black and a chocolate brown coopworth coming. I have this coming. And then the last purchase was for Wild Oak and Red mix. I really like the dying that I did today, if only it were darker colors. The wool I used was the domestic wool from Halcyon The pink blue is spinning like a dream and the colors are much better once spun. They are blending nicely. I'll get a photo once its plied. And through all this I'm working too. My husband had the day off, but I didn't. For some reason I schedule myself to have a longer day on Monday, but it means I usually have a shorter Friday. I'll have something good to show by the end of the week.
