Well, this week, I have been working hard, AND hardly working.
I have gotten a fair bit of spinning done, and have no less than 5 skeins of yarn all spun up and in some stage of the process of being skeined, washed, and ready for photos. I’ll show off a few-
This one is Polwarth wool, and it is scrumptious soft. this one is only a bit over 2 ounces, but it is over 150 yards, and very pretty.
Merino wool in pastel colors... this was at least 4 ounces, and there is a fair bit of length here... its probably somewhere between sport and DK weight...
This one is a finer yarn, about a light fingering weight, 2 plied with a lower plying twist than usual. It is superwash BFL and was meant to be lace, but I feel like it is thicker than a typical lace, though I have not measured the WPI yet. There is over 400 yards here, but there IS one knot in the yarn where there was apparently a weakness in both plies that I did not account for. Boy, that hasn't happened in a LONG time. It will go in the shop, but as a slight second because of the knot.
One of the yarns I spun up in the last few days is a Jacob wool batt that I had dyed pink while it was still locks. I took video of the spinning, meaning to create a series of videos on spinning batts using different methods, but sadly, the video camera did not want to pic up the images (too low light) and just shows a big (fat from pregnancy) sillohette. bah humbug on that. I guess I need a better camera… but how to afford that?
On another note, whats going on here is a bit of chaos. We spent a chunk of money a few weekends ago on 2 new appliances, a stand up freezer that we meant to put in our pantry, and a water softener.
We realized right away AFTER it arrived, that the freezer was no way no how getting into that pantry. the room was plenty large (its a huge pantry) but the door? far to small. by inches. even with the doors off both the pantry AND the freezer.
Oh well. the freezer is now running in the cellar (up on cinder blocks) and is being steadily filled with good things. I have been cooking giant batches of food and stockpiling for after baby is born. so far, there is a meal of stuffed peppers down there, 2 sheperd’s pies, and 2 pans of baked mac and cheese. Yum. next will be baked ziti, and after that possibly lasagna. we’ll see how industrius I am feeling.
The water softener, we needed so badly. Our water is a 14 on the hardness scale. If you don’t know what that means… well, my understanding is that 7 is considered hard. 10 is VERY hard, and 14? we might as well be just eating sand.
Sadly, the water softener, while it DID get hooked up last weekend, is still not running and softening our hard water. My wonderful husband was trying to save us some money and him some work, and figured that he would just let the water softener recharge itelf into a big tub… since we have no drainage down there. well. the tub was too small, and we wound up with an inch deep of water across the whole cellar floor. thank goodness that freezer is on cinder blocks.
SO, this weekend, he will be installing a utility sink down there, and connecting the water softener directly to the sewage pipe. (for the drainage). He figures, if he is gonna have to cut into the pipe to connect for drainage, he might as well get a sink out of the process too. he is working very hard to turn the cellar into a usable work space, and this will also allow the de-humidifier to drain directly into the sink too, eliminating his every few days trip to empty the basin for that.
We are getting closer to baby time too. As of this coming sunday, I will be 36 weeks along… further if you go by the date my dear husband is using (somehow he keeps marking wednesday as the week turner) but I will happily keep thinking it will be May 23 for a due date. I know, you see, that the baby is more likely to be late than early, and I would rather not be thinking that baby is late before I have to.
Now, after having typed far too long, I am sure I have lost the interest of all but the staunchest readers, so I will end for today, and say, may you have happy spinning, knitting, or just browsing the web time, until you join me again!
