Shut Up & Knit!

Oh the irony...

It's a glorious fall day and I have no time to enjoy out it.  With luck, there will be room for some fun in my Sunday because Saturday is booked, baby.

Ray the plumber did his job.  Rather slower than I would have liked but whatever.  He'll return Monday to make things pretty and get his final check.  That check is going to hurt me but a girl needs water.  Ya know?

Since it's October, it's time to make the memorial apple crumble in honor of Bob, our Sandy's late father in law, who loved some apple crisp.  Or was it cobbler?  Of course, I can't remember, but every October, I make apple cobbler/crisp/whater to remember a good man.  Not a lot of them out there, ya know.

Not that I have the first clue who will be eating it this year...

Happy Saturday, people!  Hope your skies are blue and happy.

Scottsdale, Arizona, I can see you!!!

Our Gayle asked to see what I'm spinning these days.  I love our Gayle, so here's a fluff photo.  It's some kind of pink, a merino/bamboo blend.  Bamboo being code for rayon last time heard.  Run through the drum-carder and tied into a little knot.  I think there are 30 of them...

The spinning is going well, thanks.  I'm spinning 3 ounces at a time and chain plying the lot.  Very thin singles make a lovely maybe fingering weight yarn.  I'm loving the spinning and the plying is improving inch by inch.  More photos once it's finished yarn.

And a little late summer sky that we had before the thunder storms rolled through earlier in the week to close out a long fast-moving week that was just slightly dreadful and full of parking structure drama.  Hoping we all have a boring slow-moving drama-free weekend.

Happy Friday!

And they call it Monday

A week or so ago, our Marilyn told me to go outside and look at the sky.  I did because I try to listen my Marilyn and I found a disappointing sky.  Smokey, gray blue sky.  No happy clouds.  Nothing good or remarkable.  Then the other day, the sky was semi-decent looking...

Not bad, right?

Remember I told you about the teal spinning?  Our Margene sent me some semi-solid cormo/alpaca that I spun into 164 yards of chain plied yarn that will edge the Shetland cardi that I will make from the 1130 yards of Meat Sheep Industries Shetland.  Half of it was a birthday gift from Jen.  The other half was from our Joan herself because I whinged a bit about wanting another braid and she was able to find another one for me.  I'm totally impressed given that they moved not so long ago and she's just so busy over there.

Color is slightly off, of course...

I loved the spinning and plying.  I always enjoy spinning Shetland and I am looking forward to knitting with this yarn.  Although, not anytime soon because it's going to be 103F here today and the air quality is nasty bad.  Wandering around in socks in one thing.  Sitting with a sweater on my lap is something else entirely.

Hoping to find the time/energy to deal with the other 3 hanks of yarn I've spun.  The color change stuff from the other day, some sock yarn and some yarn that will be for socks... I think.

We'll see.  Things change so quickly here.  Nothing's written in stone.

Oh, and I watched the season ender of Whodunnit last night.  I over thought things and was wrong.  I should have realized that it was an ABC show and that the person it totally looked like was indeed the person who was guilty.  I like to think that makes me too smart for the show but really?  Who knows?  That whole tired thing may have eaten my brain...

Happy Monday, everyone!

Cables continue...

I knit our Joan another pair of socks.  It's the Goose Girl pattern again with some slight mods.  Love that pattern.  Although, having knit 6 items from that chart, I'm taking a tiny break. 

To spin...

Cashmere singles

Look at the sky...

Reminded me of our Margene for some reason

And trying to enjoy the moment because, in the end, that's all we have.

There's A New Ankle In Town!

Our Joan very kindly did some sock modeling for us.*

I swear I knit and sent a total of four socks... two pairs even.  Part of me thinks this is going to be her new thing.  We see one hand or a single foot.  Ya know, to keep the mystery alive.  A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do...

Anyway, the Goose Girl socks fit her and I'm a little confused by that but also happy.  Those socks were a part of my Finish It February knitting.  Or whatever we're calling it.  I'm just the Cookie behind..

I had started the Goose Girl socks last month because I can only know so many pairs of mitts/mittens.  It was a relief to have them done and on their way.  (We will not be talking about the other pair of Goose Girl socks I have on the needles.)

There's been a bit more finishing of one sort or another.  We'll talk about that next week because the month isn't over yet. 

We seem to have a solid plan for next month.  If you want in, lemme know and I'll tell you and link to what we're planning.  Should be interesting.  (It's not cables, Marilyn!  I swear!)

The birds are big ass hawks!  I saw them through the kitchen window the other day and had to go outside for photos.  Very cool.

*The other pair of socks are just another boring pair of ribbed socks with CCSRs and a sewn bind-off.  Nothing very exciting.