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.
Thursday, June 03, 2004
The Planets have aligned
I love those all too rare days when something must have happened. Something cosmic to make it so that my bills are paid (even a new show fee) and I have money to go to Halcyon. 
That my friends is 5 lbs of roving. Most, if not all, of it will end up in the Mandyred colorway seen in yesterdays posting. I'm in love with it too. I had the idea for a while, I can't believe I didn't do it up before. The other stuff in the pic: Silver yarn and a bag of Mylar to play with plying it to make novelty sorts of things or little accent yarns. 2 more bobbins and a sock yarn surprise. The surprise comes in the fact that I thought I would never get this colorway. My mom lusted after it when she saw samples at 2 different yarn stores but they were all out of the color. I tried to talk her into the yellow and blue colorway but it wasn't the same, saddened we walked away from the sock bin. Yesterday though, I felt so triumphant finding it. So much so in fact that I put 3 in my basket, all that they had. My hoarding nature overcame me like a tidal wave. Picture Golum hunched over with a basket of "precious" sock yarn. I wandered out of the sock area and was able to beat down the hoard so that I came home with one lonely ball of the stuff.
Yesterday I spent some time over at Interweave because of a mention of a fabulous sock pattern in the latest Spin off. Yep, just the mention of it sent me running off to buy the magazine. While there I had to look around. I'm thinking of pre-ordering This Book. Have I shown you the Shadow Shawl I want to make? If so, deal with it. You'll see it a bunch more times I'm sure.
Then I checked out the glove gallery I'm in love with the ones made by Carol Wassell. I want to make some amazing gloves this winter. I'll probably just end up making some chunky handspun mittens long after its freezing cold here. I only think to make gloves when my hands are ready to fall off from frostbite.
Sweet, sweet procrastination. I'm actually thinking of starting a knit along for us all to get started on our winter knitting. Most notably Christmas gifts. Maybe I'll get stuff done early if I have others trying to do the same.
EDIT** ok so I did it. I created a new blog and all that. Talk about procrastination, I have a ton of pottery to finish and all I got done was 4 teapots. Anyway, I do really need to get to work so I'll talk more about this tomorrow, but here it is, let me know if you want to sign up.
Anyone in?