Love and Redemption, Part 2

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I’m a shitty blogger….sorry. So I give you a funny picture.

It’s been awhile since I posted on here, sorry about that. The past few weeks have been kind of crazy. I was out of town for about a week and a half, and the rest of it has been catching up on things around the house and at work. I have managed to finish two projects and one yarn. I finished my Charade Socks and a pair of Charade inspired mitts. I love the Charade socks, I think I could make thousands of pairs of them….and that’s saying a lot because I can’t usually knit something more than once. I don’t know what it is about it, I just love the stitch pattern. My Charade inspired mitts are really awesome. The Charade stitch pattern works great on a mitt. I plan to email Sandra to ask permission to write up my pattern and post it on my blog. So maybe you will see it here soon. Because I’ve been really really busy, I don’t have any pictures of my projects, but hopefully I can take a few soon. I’ve been so busy, that I haven’t even blocked my Charade Socks and mitts. I finally managed to set the twist in some handspun that I finished spinning the last week of May. Its the April Installment of the Spunky Club, 100% Wennsleydale in The Perfect Storm colorway. It turned out great. It’s 15 wpi, so it’s about fingering weight, but it probably drifts up to sport weight in some spots.

Anyway, that’s all I have. Hopefully I will have pictures soon.

Its a 3 day weekend. Yay!!

My spinning wheel arrived last Monday. Its so beautiful and spins so well. I’m seriously in love. I’ve been spinning like crazy all weekend. I finished 4oz of Corriedale in the colorway Burning Embers from Spunky Eclectic. Its still drying, so I don’t have pictures yet. I think its mostly dry, but I’m going to leave it laying out for a little while longer. It came out to be about worsted weight, which is about what I was going for. Its really squishy and soft. So soft in fact, that earlier I found one of my cats curled up on it. She must have really liked it, because she was not going to budge when I tried to make her move. I had to pick her up and move her myself (she was not happy with me for that). I’ve already started on my next fiber, and I’m nearly done with it, all I have left to do is ply. It’s my April Spunky Club installment, 4oz of Wennsleydale in The Perfect Storm colorway. I tried to spin it finer but I’m still experimenting, so I’m not really sure what weight it will be. The Wennsleydale is really hairy and tough feeling. I’m thinking of either some socks (if it’s fine enough and I have a lot of yards (probably not)) or some mitts/mittens. Might make a good hat though….

I’m working on my Charade socks and my Tangled Yoke Cardigan. I love the Charade socks. I think it will be a pattern that I can knit and reknit. I honestly haven’t gotten very far with my cardigan mostly because I’m obsessed with my socks. And, when I’m not working on my socks, I’m spinning on my new wheel. I think I’ve only done a couple of repeats of the garter rib on the bottom of the cardigan, it’s probably not even an inch long. It will get there someday.

I’m hoping to have pictures of everything soon. I know, a blog post without pictures sucks.

We’ve had something like 10 inches of rain since yesterday evening in Shreveport/Bossier (I live in Shreveport, but we are twin cities separated by a river). We have flash floods, power outages, the whole she-bang. The power at my house has been out since 8:30 yesterday evening, but fortunately the water didn’t rise past the sidewalk on our street. When I got to work this morning, a bunch of the offices had wet carpet, and our back storage room had an inch or so of standing water. All in all, its been an exciting day. I hope our electricity is back on at my house by the time I get home from work. I stopped by during lunch, and it was still out. The power company said a tree fell on some lines knocking out power to 22 homes in my neighborhood. They are estimating that it will be back on by midnight tonight, but that is subject to change. Right now, it’s not raining, but we are supposed to get more rain tonight. I just really hope our power comes back on.

The things that suck most about not having power (#1 of course being the worst):

3. No air conditioner

2. No internet

1. Not being able to see to knit

I did manage to wind a ball of yarn by candle light last night.

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ETA:

The electricity was on when we got home from work!!