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, February 09, 2004
I don't need no stinkin' swift
Said like I'm tough or something.
This is how we wind yarn at our house. I mean really, who would need a swift when you have a smiling little girl. This was early Sunday morning winding up the yarn for her sweater. I also talked her into helping me wind yarn for socks for me. 
Here's a little sketch the fabulous Miss M asked me to make so she could see what her sweater is going to look like. I rather like the sweater. In order to start it though, I needed a set of needles that I think got up and walked off in the middle of the night. Fare thee well, little nimber 6 needles. There is this yarn store that always seems to be on my way home from weekend events. I wasn’t happy with this certain LYS after my first visit. Everyone deserves a second chance. Anyway, I just needed needles. If it was awful again, I could duck in and get them and quickly leave. The ladies in charge were different than the last time. They were nice! They started to chat and were really sweet. So sweet in fact that I bought 2 Rowan books. I want to Rapunzel in a bad way. Not quite what I intended to spend. Nice people can always get me to spend more. Still, I don’t see myself being a regular there just because I’m really not into trendy yarns , which is mostly what they have. I just tend to go for the nice lush wool and not the expensive spangles. Hey, I’m a simple gal.
J likes the cabled sweater I'm currently working on "Urban Aran". No progress pic at the moment. I mentioned it because he finally admits he wants a sweater. A nice fisherman style aran sweater. I have just the roving but I need to find a pattern. I think I know what he wants but I need to at least find something close so I can show him and get an ok before I start on his XXLtall sweater. I'd hate to have to Frog that.
I'm not getting much done at the moment. My cousins are visiting from Florida and I don't get to see them often but Kristin is learning to knit. She is doing a good job on a scarf. But there is something else slowing me down. I went to the doc and that little cold I though I had last week is a little worse. I have viral labyrinthitis or mono. I think its more the viral thingy. Or maybe I just hope its that over mono. I'm sitting here knitting slowly and spacing out occasionally. Hmm, maybe its not much different than I usually am at all. I have a ton of work to do and its frustrating not being able to get to it. I hope I just get more knitting done. I need something to show for my down time.