TGIF

The “official” spinning classes are completed at the lys. I intend to continue to go on open knit nights for practicing purposes, and for helpful hints and technique suggestions (along with getting out amongst the masses!) Also, today I called and arranged spinning/knitting with Spinning Neighbor I met at the caucus last week. We are going to meet for spinning on next week. I am proud of me.

I enrolled in a sock knitting class at the lys that will start soon after my return from Philly. While I believe I understand the basics of knitting socks, I hope to learn the magic loop method. Knitting on dbpns leaves me with ladder stitches, not matter how I try to tighten the stitches between the needles.

I purchased 9 oz of blue face Leicester roving at the fiber mill on Wednesday. It is a nice and softy white. Mostly I got it because while in the mill, I saw a poster of different types of sheep. I thought the blue faces looked stately and serene!

Wonderful Guy and I are considering the purchase of some alpaca fiber boys. A friend is considering a breeding herd. She would help us out with a place to put our boys (not thinking our HOA would approve of them in the backyard!!), and her 4-H’ing children would participate in their care for the chance to enter them in fairs and such. Then I would get the fleece for to do with as I want! I am thinking it’s a win-win situation, if it all works out. She doesn’t live so far away that we can’t be part of their lives, too. I would want that. The alpacas I have seen ‘up close and personal’ are just too cutee-patootie. Not so stately and serene, more soft and cuddly.

This alpaca possibility was one reason for the spinning class. I would have been perfectly content to purchase my yarn needs ready-made, but since we were considering the alpacas, I thought I ought to figure out whether I liked spinning, and/or was good at it. I mean, there have been some pursuits in my life I have tried that, frankly, even with practice, I was not ever going to be very good at. And there have been other efforts that I have discovered I would rather spend my time doing something else, thank you very much. I have enjoyed learning to spin, though it has been a heck of a challenge! And producing something usable, though I have very much progress to make.

Down side…I am seriously considering the purchase of a spinning wheel! The investment opportunities never cease.