Insubordiknit

Still spinning

Still spinning yarn...

This yarn is actually plyed and drying right now. A whopping 320 yrds, fingering weight. But I get ahead of myself, I'll tell you about it when I post the pics tomorrow. I just couldn't help but give ya a peek now. That and I want you to be suprised when you see how lovely the yarn is after seeing that hideous roving! Yikes.

Have I mentioned that after 3 months I've finally exhausted my local library of all it's knitting and spinning books? Well, I have. So today, much to the delight of Little Bit, we ventured downtown to the biggest freakin' Enock Pratt Free Library I've ever seen. The building had gargoyles! okay, little carved stone lion heads, but still! BIG BIG BIG! A pond in the kid section, which happens to be 2 floors below the main library, and fiber books as far as my arms could stretch. Yep, it should hold me for at least 6 months.

I got these very old handspinning books that have some info on fancy-schmancy yarns, y/k, the ones with flubs, nubs, twists, twirls, and specks, the ones where one or both of the yarns are plied the same way it was spun, Z, S and all. Yep, I'm gonna tackle some fancy-schmancy yarns, like the big girls.

In knitty news, I've finished the submission project and I'm polishing up the pattern, taking out all the cursing, the slang, and the overt denunciations of our government. You know, anything that may keep it from being accepted (except the actual design - lol). I'm also knitting another one, just to test the pattern as written. Now I know it's best to get someone else to undertake this task but I don't really know many other knitters and B-ill didn't feel he could get it done within the time frame needed so I'm steppin' up, or sittin' down as the case may be.

I've still got to finish my pop's father's day present but this has taken priority over the man that reared and raised my ass -- thanks for that btw, I know it was hit or miss for a while but in the end you did a bang up job! They will get done, not only because he deserves them but because I'm itching to cast on for Little Bit's sweater vest from the blue/brown homespun, and for my own tank top though I've yet to see a pattern I like.

Hunger takes me from the computer.

Posted by jacey at June 20, 2005 10:18 PM