Soon to be a New Year...
I am currently in fiber heaven.
I'm finally spending some quality time with my spinning wheel, spinning up some lovely, hand-dyed, Falkland fiber that I bought from The Yarn Wench some time ago. It's such a refreshing change from spinning up the silk and alpaca I had been working with (finished the alpaca - finally!). This is such a bouncy fiber that I'm having fun letting my fingers play with it as I spin it up thicker and looser than I have been doing for the past year. There's something to be said for thick, bouncy yarn when you've been basically spinning threads for so long. Not that I mind spinning fine, it has its uses and place. I am simply reveling in the joy of being able to go from fine spinning to thicker.
The colorway that I'm spinning was the Yarn Wench's "Lizard King 2" and I can't exactly remember how long ago I bought it. May have been last year, two or even three years ago. Once I finish spinning it up, I'm thinking of knitting it into a 'fun' hat. Not sure though, because I'm not really all that much of a hat person...
Well, one of the things I'm going to try to do is post here more often than I have in the past two and one half years. I think it will get easier once I'm no longer my Kingdom's Webminister. I get to hand the office off completely this coming July!!! Yep, just in time for Pennsic. I. Am. Stoked. Not that I regret my time in the office, but since this is the last 6 months or so of a three year term, I'm a bit beat from it. Once I have handed it off, I'm not going to abandon my successor... but I will be so very glad to be able to get back to my research project... I need to pick up where I left off and see what new genetic research has been done in the past tow-three years to help with my hypothesis regarding what sheep would have been available to a woman living in Orkney during the time period of 4th - 7th centuries AD. Then I can get busy on the actual spinning (I still have a batch of North Ronaldsay wool to finish spinning up on my drop spindle) and finally the weaving portion of my project. Of course, during this time, I hope to actually be able to get my research paper written and submitted to Kingdom A&S (not this year, unfortunately... but hopefully before 2015!).
I am truly looking forward to getting back on track with my A&S projects.
Oh, and to be honest, while I think that on one level it would be neat to be chosen for the Society Webminister's position, right now, I'd seriously consider turning it down - at least for now.
I'm finally spending some quality time with my spinning wheel, spinning up some lovely, hand-dyed, Falkland fiber that I bought from The Yarn Wench some time ago. It's such a refreshing change from spinning up the silk and alpaca I had been working with (finished the alpaca - finally!). This is such a bouncy fiber that I'm having fun letting my fingers play with it as I spin it up thicker and looser than I have been doing for the past year. There's something to be said for thick, bouncy yarn when you've been basically spinning threads for so long. Not that I mind spinning fine, it has its uses and place. I am simply reveling in the joy of being able to go from fine spinning to thicker.
The colorway that I'm spinning was the Yarn Wench's "Lizard King 2" and I can't exactly remember how long ago I bought it. May have been last year, two or even three years ago. Once I finish spinning it up, I'm thinking of knitting it into a 'fun' hat. Not sure though, because I'm not really all that much of a hat person...
Well, one of the things I'm going to try to do is post here more often than I have in the past two and one half years. I think it will get easier once I'm no longer my Kingdom's Webminister. I get to hand the office off completely this coming July!!! Yep, just in time for Pennsic. I. Am. Stoked. Not that I regret my time in the office, but since this is the last 6 months or so of a three year term, I'm a bit beat from it. Once I have handed it off, I'm not going to abandon my successor... but I will be so very glad to be able to get back to my research project... I need to pick up where I left off and see what new genetic research has been done in the past tow-three years to help with my hypothesis regarding what sheep would have been available to a woman living in Orkney during the time period of 4th - 7th centuries AD. Then I can get busy on the actual spinning (I still have a batch of North Ronaldsay wool to finish spinning up on my drop spindle) and finally the weaving portion of my project. Of course, during this time, I hope to actually be able to get my research paper written and submitted to Kingdom A&S (not this year, unfortunately... but hopefully before 2015!).
I am truly looking forward to getting back on track with my A&S projects.
Oh, and to be honest, while I think that on one level it would be neat to be chosen for the Society Webminister's position, right now, I'd seriously consider turning it down - at least for now.