I wouldn’t want you to think that I’ve given up spinning, what with all the talking about knitting and felted wool lately. Tonight, I pulled this bagful of Corriedale from the closet. (It photographed remarkably accurately for color, too–just a trifle on the bright side.)

  I haven’t gotten very far with the actual spinning yet, but I started, anyway. (At least with spinning I don’t have to worry about gauge–grin.) I did, however, experiment with long draw again, with still the same result. Thick and thin yarn, which always breaks at the thin spots. (No comment.)

But still, it was behaving better than my Union Square Market Pullover tonight (the saga continues). I ripped out what I’d knitted . . . again . . . and cast on my new number of stitches (186) . . . but by then the outer layer of yarn from my skein had decided to unwrap itself and was a nice tangle at the bottom of my knitting bag. I worked that snarl out and safely rewound it around the skein. But by then, the yarn I had just frogged had managed to tangle itself around itself, the needle, the skein . . . and oh yes! Somehow it got caught in the wire of my row counter–how, I have no idea! By the time I’d gotten everything untangled and back on track . . . well, let’s just say that my sweater hasn’t exactly gotten very far tonight.

  And I’ve been making [very slow] progress on the pretty roving that Liz sent me in May. (Yes, May.) Spindling is supposed to be more productive than wheel-spinning because it’s easier to pick up at spare moments . . . and yet, it never seems to work out quite that way. But I have been working on it, and I do love the colors.

  Meanwhile, my poor Ashford Kiwi sits in the corner, unused and feeling like a bizarre kind of chair, since I’ve got the bench from my writing desk straddling its treadles. Poor thing.

I’m so glad it’s Friday–it’s going to be an interesting three weeks coming up at the office. My department (which really is two, overlapping departments) has 5 people. My boss is on vacation this week, with one of our other people out next Friday. Then one person is out for the next two weeks, at least one of which is going to be overlapped by one other person. In other words, we’ll be short either one or two people, out of five, for every day for the next three weeks. Oy. (To be fair, though, the worst of the shortfall is on the “other” side of our department from me–I’ll try to help out, but the worst of the over-work/stress will fall on the other folks. From my point of view, at least that’s something–just a little extra guilt to deal with for me!)

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