spinning and packing

100% mernio wool, Kool-Aid dyed while still in it's roving state, handspun by me on my Ashford bottom whorl drop spindle. 56 yards total (from 4 ounces of roving), varying from bulky to super-bulky, some spots still ended up overspun but it's a lot better than my first attempt.

This is my January skein for the Spin to Knit swap, for February I want to try plying, but it has to wait a bit as this entire house is in a huge state of chaos thanks to a very short-notice move. We are relocating (will be just to the south-east of Pittsburgh), and I have been packing almost constantly. There's still a ton left to do yet, and we have less than a week until we pick up the U-Haul, so I really need to get busy. It's very hard packing when you've got nowhere to put the boxes, though. On the bright side, it's become very easy to get rid of things we don't need/want. We have taken a ton of stuff to various thrift stores so far and still have more to go yet.

And now I should really get back to the packing so I can take apart the other bookshelves behind me to make room for more boxes.

Ooh... shiny!

Er... beyond tired, and about to go to bed, but I just switched to the new Blogger and wanted to see the new posting page and er, now I am posting random drivel about it.

I will hopefully take some photos of the recently spun yarn soon... once again I managed to overspin, but it relaxed some with a bath and weighted drying. It's not perfect, but for my second attempt ever, I think it's pretty good.

And now... bed.

Elephant, part 2...

My mom loves him. Me... not so happy about the laddering on his forehead (I got sick of seaming so I converted the head to be knit on DPNs). And the upturned trunk could have been a spaced a bit better.

He's not perfect, but he's terribly loveable as is, and that's what really matters, right?

Last night I started a new project within minutes of finishing him - it will be a Jughead hat for Chris. He saw the one in DomiKnitrix, but I am not fond of the construction method, so this is a top-down, mostly stockinette hat. It's only about 4 rows completed so far since Sage woke up just after I started it, so I've got a lot of work to do on it yet. When I finish Chris's I am making one for Sage in a deep plum yarn.

I think I am afraid of starting Rogue. It's such a big project. Eep.

In destashing news, I returned all unused balls of Sugar & Cream and the extra ball of Paton's Classic from the elephant (wasn't sure of how much I needed when I bought the yarn, I got three balls, used 1 and probably not even a 1/4 of the second one) to A.C. Moore and used the store credit for Sage's hat yarn (Moda Dea's washable wool, because I couldn't find anything else I liked at all there since they clearanced what decent yarns they had) and Sudoko books for Harley. So that's 5 less balls of yarn to destash this year. A gazillion more to go yet...

Elephant!

My mom's elephant... finished late last night, photographed today (there *should* be snow on the ground, instead it's in the 50's, unlike yesterday's 70°F high). She'll be here any second, so this is a very quick post.