One Crazy Fiber Lady

It has been a very crazy week at Chez CFL.  This weekend was hands down a blast.  I had a fabulous time with Jessica, who is as always, a fabo festival buddy.  She has an excellent write up of our weekend.  Heck, I’ve already posted all the photos I took.  Sadly, the only camera I used was my phone and posted them immediately.  I’m also gonna skip the whole photographic evidence of my fiber-y gluttony beyond the shot into the back of my car on Sunday.

BTW, Manise had it right, I only bought one wheel this weekend, the Ladybug.  I had toted the Matchless along as my weekend wheel but she never made it out of the car.  One of my early purchases on Saturday was the trundle wheels for her, but they were returned a few hours later when I bought the Ladybug.  All the stuff on the right side was Jessica’s with mine on the left.  I purchased NO fleece (Jessica picked up that gorgeous Cormo), believe it or not, but the rest of the white fluffy bits were bundles of BFL from Little Barn.

I took Monday off from work to relax and recover from the weekend.  I learned this trick a bunch of years ago and try to repeat it whenever possible.  It gives me a day to indulge the spinning demons that possess me after a weekend at the festival.  I also HAD to get to know the new wheel.  I didn’t realize that each wheel had a little ladybug in different spots.  Here’s my little cutie.  That black bit in the stretchy driveband going over the whorl.  I love that the flyers/bobbins are completely interchangable with the Matchless (who you can see sitting behind the ladybug). 

I started with this bump of mystery roving that I picked up from Still River Mill(?).  It’s approximately 9 oz or so that varied in color from the light pink on the outside to that green on the inside.  I spun it as it at what will hopefully be a worsted weight two ply.  I um, finished this up by the end of Monday :)  Two bobbins worth.  I’m going to ply it with a natural colored BFL that I got from Little Barn.  I’m mostly done with the first of those bobbins now. 

So after all this spinning with the Ladybug, two pretty intense days, I have to say, I LOVES her.  She’s definitely a Schacht and spins like one.  She bothers my ankle not a whit which is perfect.  Anything longer than a half hour and Gem had me hurting.  This baby?  Nuthin.  Hours and hours spent with her were joyful and painfree.  Gem is now looking for a new home.  Again, you can see my Matchless sneaking into the picture behind Ladybug.

Tuesday was just insane.  I chaperoned a field trip for the kids to an area farm to learn about animals.  Four school busloads full of little kids.  {shudder}  Three pre-k’s and the kindergarten class.  It was fun, but somewhere during the second hour, the 21 little kids in my group all started to hit the wall of attention span and were wandering off. 

Wednesday was rather uneventful but my first day back in the office since Thursday.  We’re preparing for a release so things are a bit crazed as we try to cram more and more into the package.  I hit my deadline on the big project last week and have now moved into a QA phase with it.  Feels good, even if I lost about 9 days worth of work in a reorganization of the code.  It took way less time to rebuild, thank goodness.

I had to work from home yesterday as Kat developed a stomach bug.  Ugh.  I think i would have rathered been in the office than spending that much time in the bathroom.  She’s better today and went to school.  Fingers crossed that she stays there.

Since MD, I’ve been feeling a little off on the knitting.  There’s been the overwhelming desire to spin.  More troubling though has been the lack of desire to knit on Unst.  Not sure why and it doesn’t bode well for the project as a whole.  On Wednesday it was replaced for commuting knitting by Leaf Lace shawl.   Then last night, after reading a few Ravelry forums, I jumped in on the May Sockdown and started Uzume  (sorry, only have the Ravelry link) in some Koigu that was sitting about.  I’m really loving this sock.  I’m at the halfway point of the first cuff.  Sweet.  Not bad for casting it on last night before LOST.

Craft on!