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.
Wednesday, February 04, 2004
Bzz Bzzzzz buzzzz zzzzz
Coffee, must have more coffee. Buzzzzzz. I've been running around all day. New things happening. I cut seconds off of my knitting time. Seconds! You know every second counts. How did I do this you may ask? I figured out cabling without a cable needle. It’s a real “duh” moment. “Duh” of course it works that way, why didn’t I think of it before. Sometimes I can be really thick.I'd say its a minimal amoutn of time but if you ask my husband he might say its more like 80% of the time and he may be right.
In other news, I’ve added seconds to my knitting time. Continental knitting hurts. I’ve overworked myself lately I think. From spinning, to knitting, to throwing pottery, to painting, to starting back yesterday at casting for my mom, my poor little wrist has had enough. So am I resting it? Heck no! Where’s that Ben Gay, I have knitting to do! 
Nothing too impressive but they are oh so comfy and warm. They are also the first pair of socks I've made from my very own handspun. Woohooo!
Isn't that just a pretty picture? Its the type of bowl I used to make before I started all the majolica styled stuff. I have a few pieces still laying around and I still use them. It makes a great roving bowl. You can't really see what the bowl looks like anyway, I took the picture so you could see the fiber, that's what its all about. That's the first of the yarn for M's cardi with some of the roving that still needs to be spun and a bobbin of singles. I've blended the green and blue a bit more as I spun it up so I won't have to wrry about a good color gradient.
I've found that I can work on several knitting projects at a time. Pick up old ones and new ones, while setting others aside only to be forgotten and picked up at a later date. Just see my side bar for proof. Spinning is a different story. It irks me to spin up half of a roving and let the other half sit there while I move onto something else. I got 3 more bobbins a couple of weeks ago just so I could do a couple of projects at a time. It seems odd to me that I treat knitting and spinning so differently.
That's a sneak peek at the new pottery I've been working on. I know, such a tease. I've been working on my website. I installed a shopping cart and few other little things. I have to iron out a few details and capture a few more pictures but its starting to look better. Wanna see? Click me!