Fiber Fool

This picture captures some of the projects I’m looking towards for this week. Today should mark the beginning of the first Tami Hoag mystery, Still Waters. It should also mark my casting-on with my hand dyed and hand spun BFL yarn for a new design, hence the design notebook in that photo. The two bobbins mark all the spinning I’ve done in August (terrible, terrible), but it is some of the samples I got from Cathy back in April for my birthday. I plan to get at least these two plied up and hopefully spin some of the other samples. I figured in honor of the neutrals it would be a good reason to dive into these guys. Plus, I wasn’t feeling inspired for any specific projects by any of my rovings so it made good sense. I’m also going to finally jump in and sew. I did a bunch of ironing this weekend in preparation and have been going over some of the patterns and feeling slightly confused. So, I decided to start with the plain bias skirt (the bottom right of the schematics). I’m going to sew it out of some Gilmore Girl blue linen (if you watch GG you know why I call it that - Lorelai and Rory are dressed in it often because it makes their eyes really pop).

This weeked was glorious! Especially so weather-wise. I got to wear my Gentleman Socks on Friday, I wore my Balance Socks on Saturday, and my Flatiron Socks yesterday. It looks like it should be cool enough to wear yet another pair of handknit socks. One thing I noticed though was that my socks don’t so much match my wardrobe. I either need to choose different sock yarns or I need to think about my sock yarns when buying clothes :-) There is one thing that I noticed while wearing these socks thought - they make me feel great! It doesn’t matter that I knit them myself, they make me feel special to wear them. They put a smile on my face and keep my often cold feet nice and warm, but not too warm even when we do finally climb into the low 70’s. I *love* wearing my handknit socks!

There was also more book reading and movie watching that I’ll write about later in the week.

This morning was especially cool and makes me think forward to fall! The house is down to a cold 64 degrees, but we’ll be glad for that when we work our way back up to 90 degrees on Thursday. Our outdoor thermometer was reading 45 degrees this morning at 7:30am! Brrrr! Blissfully so though! The other senesors around town were reading in the low 50’s as you can see in the image above.

I *love* fall! It is finally coming! Yeah!

Today I head to Aqua Susan’s house after water aerobics to do some work for my first (and likely only) paid sewing gig. She needs some adjustments made to a window treatment of some kind. I’m not real clear on what it will require right now nor do I know how much I’ll be paid, but it’ll be nice to do this for Susan too. It’ll be nice to get a few extra bucks in the pocketbook though, no matter how little.