Knitasha von Stashenskeins: Many Verbs

My life is full of verbs these days. I've been cleaning, sorting, folding, washing, sweeping, driving, weeding, and doctoring. Blogging - not so much. Not a lot of time for the fun stuff. I didn't even make it to knit night Tuesday - too tired!

A few fun verbs have managed to survive the rush. First of all, reading. Did I ever mention that I got myself a Kindle? Well, I did, and it has become the love of my life. It is so easy to take it everywhere and I never have to worry that I might finish my book and be trapped with no reading material. I can download another book in a flash without needing to find Wi-Fi. My latest book is The Subtle Knife, which is the sequel to The Golden Compass. I'm hooked on this series now - Philip Pullman is so inventive!

Another fun verb is spinning. I have lots of soft stuff to spin, but at the moment I'm obsessively spinning some scratchy stuff instead.

That is a #2 needle included for scale. This is bona-fide "wooly" wool, it even smells sheepy. Far too scratchy to wear next to the skin, but I might be able to make a very warm outer garment for my daughter to take to Montreal.

I'm spinning it out of pencil roving, which I had been meaning to try for quite a while. Pencil roving is drawn out in a continuous thin strip and comes in "wheels".

That is the giant cream wheel. (The brown came in two smaller wheels.) Because it is pre-drafted, you can spin it as is. So easy! You really just keep treadling and feeding it into the wheel.

The resulting two-ply is so thick that I can only fit a small yardage on the bobbin. I have three short skeins so far - yardage unknown. I ordered 8 oz of each color, so it will be interesting to see what I actually end up with. If I could sneak a vest out of it, I'd be pretty happy.

There has also been some knitting.

I cannot believe I haven't finished this sock yet. It is draaaaging on forever, but part of that is probably the fact that I am itching to cast on the next project. Only my loyalty to Kate is keeping me on track.

By the way, if you are feeling lonely or in need of attention, work on a Salto sock in the middle of a yarn store. Every passing knitter does the inevitable quick pause to check out the yarn and then the cables suck them right in. It was lucky that I had a finished sock for strangers to fondle or I wouldn't have held the working sock long enough to get anything done.

There may or may not have been a little shopping.

This colorway is "Flamingo" and you will not believe how pretty it knits up. It was a featured yarn for the store's sock-of-the-month club, so I have seen a lot of it and it made me drool every time. When they put the sock club leftovers out for sale, I snatched it up. Monkeys maybe? It has to get in line behind the Wollmeise.

I've got half of Sunday left and most of my chores done, so I think there are some happy verbs in store. Hope your day has some as well.