One down...

I'm not a fan of holidays. It seems like most of the burden falls on the women, to cook, to clean, to entertain, to shop, etc. With our pre-Thanksgiving weekend out of the way, my kids were free to do what they wished on the actual day, and so was I. My SO and I ate Kirkland beef lasagna and homemade apple crisp (he brought the salad). A simple meal, with little prep, that we both enjoyed. Then we walked the dogs.

Knitting: STILL working on Bigfoot's socks; the cuffs are about a third done. It's too easy to pick up the cowl instead.
Spinning: YES, I actually did some spinning. Or, rather, some chain-plying. This is the last of the fiber I purchased at Three Moons in Chesterton. (For the record, I did not even go into the store last weekend, even though we were in the area.) I'm a little disappointed in it - spun too tight.

I decided to take December off from fiber meetings. Both the spinning guild and the weaving guild will have carry-ins, while one has a gift exchange and the other a craft. Again, I'm not a holiday person, and I'm a little burned out on both guilds. Maybe I just need a break. Where is a pandemic when you need one?!?

Heading into the holidays

Sorry for my absence - it's been a couple of busy weeks, culminated with a weekend trip out of town that served as my family's holiday gathering. Now things will quiet down a bit, at least for me, until xmas eve.

Knitting: The Trekking sock yarn self-striping pattern contained an error in the striping, which slowed me down, but I'm almost at the cuffs. Thinking I wanted some knitting on our weekend getaway, I started a cowl, using the merino-tencel-silk blend I spun a while back, but then I didn't even take it along for the ride.

Last week, probably because I was feeling a bit overwhelmed, I moved almost everything fiber-related to the "studio". Two of my bedrooms are primarily full of fiber and fiber equipment, and I couldn't stand to have it anywhere else in the house. It may be the pottery projects that were populating the breakfast bar and dining room table were sending me over the edge. Those projects are mostly off to be fired now, so maybe I will get a grip... for a while.

I sewed something

I am no sewist. My sewing machine is so old that the only "fancy" stitch it does is zigzag. But instead of throwing out an old pillow that one of my cats had chosen for his nest, I covered it with some "no sew" fleece.

The cover is an "envelope" cover - instructions may be found here and, yes, the instructor is a bit annoying - but I was too impatient to review the video, so did not overlap the back sections far enough. But I'm sure the cat won't mind. Added bonus: the fleece will protect the pillow from puke AND I can remove the cover to wash it.

Knitting: Still working on the bigfoot socks. There was much cursing during the turning of the heels, but I'm past that now.

I went to the Little Shop of Spinning's spin-in today. Even though I complain a LOT about how much fiber I have, somehow more followed me home. Phia dyed both the sock yarn and roving shown below, using the same colorway. So I guess I could knit a pair of socks with matching mittens and/or hat.

I'm thinking that yummy roving will get me back to the spinning wheel.