You don't need to have a plan BUT we need to have a plan

I should get that put on a totebag or something.

I know y'all won't believe me, but our Joan said that to me yesterday.  Then I repeated it back to her about million times.  If you know her well, you know it's a totally Joan sentence.

I did get a notepad out and took notes while we laid out our plan for next year.  She was mean to me and I shot down a couple of her concerns because I hate people and don't care who knows it.  There will be some kind of pool running, btw.  I just need to find someone to run it before we talk about that in public.  It was fun working out the details with her and it really shows how different we are.  Joan wanted to add more and more to this challenge and I kept whinging about how knitting with ONLY handspun for a year was enough of a challenge.  Yeah, I caved a bit in the end, but we all saw that coming.

In an effort to try to keep up with her, I've done some more spinning.  This time it was batts that Joan made for me from fiber she got from Into The Whorled.  The fiber is BFL (LOVE!) and the colorway is Blue Genie.

I love the batts that Joan made.  She's such a natural, and I loved the spinning and how it went.  I tried something new to me and love how it turned out.  I finally got a thicker yarn and feel like I may finally be on my way to spinning something thicker than a semi-fingering weight.

I ended up with 390 yards of cabled BFL yarn weighing 4.4 oz.  I couldn't be happier.

Well... unless I had more of it.

And yesterday's visitor from Cincinnati?  After spending 5 hours and 45 minutes here (!!!) yesterday, they returned today, found yesterday's blog post and left.  Somehow I don't think we'll be seeing them again anytime soon.

FIVE HOURS!

/stunned

Comments

[Beverly]

Beautiful job with that yarn!

[Carole]

I can see how someone would spend 5 hours reading your blog. Heh.

[margene]

You must have scared the shit out of the person. Nice job of spinning, as usual. So will you knit more than shawls next year? A running pool...um, could get interesting.

[(Another) Joan]

Is it possible that your visitor left the computer on and your site up for 5 hours and 45 minutes? I admit to having done that before when I've come across a new (to me) blog, reading bits of archives in between doing boring stuff like housework and meal prep. Just warning you, I may just need to have a trawl through your back catalogue soon! :)

[Cheryl S.]

Wow, that yarn is gorgeous!
You are so marvelous.

[kelly]

Maybe they were trying to rechart their Niebling and ogling the yarn? (Love todays, BTW!)

*waves bye at Cincinnatti*

[Denise]

I've left a new blog site up and read back posts in between other stuff. Just so you know if you see Tucson up for hours, days, weeks maybe.

Love the yarn. I have a hard time spinning anything thicker than light fingering weight as well. I just add more plies.

[Squishy]

Ummm... are those cattle brands on the table?

[KnittyOtter]

You know people from the Natti are crazy right? o.0

In other news I've done what Joan up there said before.

I love that yarn you've spun up. LOVE. LOVE!!!!

Like seriously love. I wanna make yarn babies with it.

Or at least grow up to spin stuff like that. You know when I grow up. :P

*hugs*

[Beverly (db81971)]

awesomness spinning girl!!

[Marilyn]

So the purple fuzz is blurry but the green knitting in the background is clear....what IS the green knitting in the background?? :)

Pretty yarn, yet again!
xo

[CindyCindy]

You lead the most interesting life. Five hours? Oh, and the yarn is beautiful!

[Carrie K]

Pretty! Wow.

A plan? Should I be afraid?

I've been known to walk away from a computer for days and not realize it was on. OTOH, I also used to read blogs back to their beginning, but that was long, long ago, when my pet dinosaur used to sit in my lap.

[Kitten]

lmao.
pretty stuff, as usual.

[Brenda]

Interesting plan for next year. I'm thinking it would be a difficult challenge only knitting with handspun. Are there exceptions? Does it have to be your own handspun?

[Nora]

Yeah, I've been guilty of the same sin as many of the foregoing commenters - including reading your entire blog from the beginning when I first learned there were such things as knitting blogs! But I'm not even from Ohio, so that makes me normal, right??

Gorgeous yarn. What's the green thing, hmm??

xoxox

[marianne]

Joan does make gorgeous batts and your yarn is beautiful!
oh.. I've been known to open a blog and walk away from the computer to tend to those things life slings at me... and have several hours pass. I can't blame anyone for wanting to read your blog though ;^)
I so get that... "you don't need to have a plan but we need to have a plan".

[sil]

Are you and Joan planning a handspun teaparty movement? Email that Delaware gal, she's fun.

[Lucia]

I don't think there's any humanly possible way I am doing the handspun thing. Too many projects, too little handspun.

[JessaLu]

I know where you can get more of that...just sayin ;o)

[Sarah]

I do not know why, but the plan scares me, and I'm not even playing.

Oh, how I do adore your new yarn! I'm not just saying this because it is purple. So, are you going to tell us what change you have made in your spinning? I am getting ready to try new and different things once I finish with the current fiber bump. I just don't want to do something right now that changes the yarn I am creating, as I think it will be one that I like.

The green baby does look great. That's what I thought it was.

xoxo