I have been pretty busy the last few days since we’re house sitting, so there’s lots to do. Combined with me not having slept well for the last few days, life is … different 
I could not stitch due to the lack of sleep, but I did some spinning and finished the singles for my dad’s XMAS gift today. Snoopy decided to be the quality supervisor and checked them out. I think he has not too pleased with the evenness, but he let it pass.
Speaking of that cute, little sunshine … he has no his own blog. He thought it’d be nice if his life was better documented in some way. So please hop over to the Life of Snoopy and leave him some lovely comments 
I am sure he’ll be thrilled.
.. on my lovely Traveler. Still undecided if it’s going to be 2 or 3 plied. Some parts of it are thin enough to make a lovely three plied yarn and other pats are thick enough for a beautiful two plied yarn. I guess I will have to spin it all and then see what I’d like more.
I started spinning this a few days ago, but only spin a little a day. I had planned to spin it into a three plied sock yarn for my dad for XMAS, but my first singles seems to be too thick and too uneven to make sock yarn. It does not feel like sock yarn either. I might only do a two ply yarn …
I finally finished the fiber I wanted to spin for the Tour de Fleece 2008. Actually, it was done on Friday, but it was still drying. It has a total of 8 oz with a total meterage of 2056.
While talking about the tour de fleece, I actually won a prize which I even got to pick. I decided on 4oz of beautifully hand-dyed in blue and brown shades (beachy) superwash Merino which can be spun into sock yarn.
.. it has its moments. Some funny, some frustrating, some painful, some boring, some happy … but all in all a wonderful experience and inspiration. I did not meet my goal of finishing my 8oz of Merino, but I did 6 oz of it into beautiful and soft lace weight yarn and will finish spinning the last 2oz before I start knitting/spinning something new.
Generally, I am pretty proud of myself. I really spun lace weight and my yarn is getting more consistent.
Here’s the collage I made to honor the Tour:
Meaning that I will not reach my goal of spinning the 8oz I have 
Ah well. I am still proud of spinning and plying around 1500m of nicely, 2 plied yarn. Yay. So actually … it should be multiplied by 3, as I had to spin two singles and then ply them Anyway, here’s my third skein that sadly still needs some more plying, but it should be done before the tour ends tomorrow.
I also had my graduation yesterday, but still no diploma only a standard thing everyone else got to. I did not know one had to fill out a form in order to get it so I need to wait. Kind of upsetting, though, as I could have gotten it a while ago. No job in sight yet, either. Ah well.
or whatever. I am somewhat messed up about the number of days as I did not take any rest days. Ah well. Either way, I spun around 5 of the 8 oz I had. I have my doubts I get it all done. Ah well.
I spent most of my day running around in school, filling out forms and whatever else. It will all pay off when tomorrow’s celebration is. I cannot wait. My toes still hurt from when I hit them.
I hope someone’s still reading this
I have been a busy bee today, having missed so many days of the Tour de Fleece last week I just do not want to miss any more. I also went to my aunt to finalize her website.
I finished plying my two 1oz singles and got to hung it up in the garden.
And then I started my challenge - which changed from Cotton to Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier. Gwendolyn (brighter) and Geena (darker) kindly agreed on parting with some of their hair.
… is going well. I spun over 1/2 oz today, so I am pretty proud of myself. This is over half on the second bobbin.
On slightly related news, I think I broke my toe(s) while trying to see Mr. Bunny. It hurts pretty much
That’s a long over-due photo of a skein I finished quite a while ago. It’s 45g and has 430ish meter length. I like it pretty much and cannot wait to knit with it .. once I finished all of the 8oz I have.
It’s been a while I showed a photo of Snoopy, so here goes two of them. They were taken yesterday while Snoopy checked out my spinning wheel. In the first one, he had his paws on the paddles, which was quite funny. He also tried to check out the bobbins and the wheel part itself. It was very funny. And then - after careful inspection - he decided to guard the wheel like a watch dog.
Actually, today is one of the resting days, but I did not get to rest. As I did not spin the last couple of days, I decided to spin more today. It was fun sitting next to Snoopy in the garden and spin The colours came out beautifully in this picture.
Yay, finally something. I got to finish the singles and ply them today. I am very happy. It is 45g of yarn and has the amazing yardage of 478! Wow. No wonder I am spinning slower than a turtle with that thinness. I love my Traveller.
The singles looked like this:
And the yarn, pre-washing and winding like this:
Today was a busy day for me, so I did not get to do much crafty works. I did some spinning, but not too much. Hoping for tomorrow I finally want to finish my first two ounces!
Wow, am I going slow! I would have never guessed that I cannot spin 1/2 an ounce per day. In those four days I spun about 1.4oz of roving. It better be lace weight or I will be pretty bummed for taking so long and ending up with some heavy weight yarn (ooh, I wish I’d not need a flask for every photo, the colors are so pretty in real)
Today, I finally got to the 1 oz I actually meant to finish yesterday and spun a little bit of the next part. It’s such a soft and lovely touching this fiber/single. I love it. Sorry about the poor photos, though.
Once I finished spinning the 2nd oz, I will ply those two together with the hope for light fingering or lace weight. If it turns out how I plan it to, I want to knit this wedding stole out of it. By the time it is done, I can hopefully wear it in our new apartment on our balcony - that’d be wonderful.
Thanks for your kind words Heidi. I am just the impatient kind of person who wants it all right at the moment ..
