What’s new

Posted On December 14, 2008

Filed under completed projects, knitting, spinning, wip

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In a few words – books:  Twilight seris (have not been able to see the movie yet); Eragon (Inheritance Cycle) Seris;  spinning; knitting.

Right now I’m spinning angora, like literally, right now.  Well right before posting this anyway.  I’m not liking 100% pure angora so much – it falls apart way easily.  This is raw angora as well as far as I know, not processed, straight from the bunnies at Handspun Harvest after having the fiber carded for me.  I love it, it is sooo soft but really a pita to spin.  I can not get a good consistency at all.  I’ve tried drafting inchworm, from the fold, and my usual worsted.  I”m afraid to try long-draw that it will just fall apart!  It’s only 2 oz – I think next time I want to buy some I will see if Jenni can blend it with something else for me to make it easier to spin.

The spinning is actually a break from cutting out fabric.  I really am not that into sewing and would much rather spin or knit.  Cutting out is the worst though.  I have 4 skirts to cut (1 down) and 3 shirts.  Then I have to get it all sewn before Saturday.  Way to go waiting on the last minute, eh?  My back kills when I cut out.

Oh yes, one other thing is new, I started seeing a chiropracter.  My neck is always bothering me, he says it’s basically bad posture.  It has helped so far, but not 100% yet.  He wants me to get to 50% better and then wear this strange contraption on my head to correct my posture – the bones in my neck are actually forward and no amount of trying to correct it myself will work, or so he says.  All I know is I do feel better so I’m pretty sure I will keep it up.  It got so bad, esp when I knit, I thought I was going to have to give it up.

I leave you with my current WIP:

And my most recent FO

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