minimalist period
So, it would seem I’m going through a Minimalist Period in my fiber arts career. I’m working two projects right now, and they’re both undyed and plain:
The Waiting for Baby blanket continues, albeit very slowly as the only time I ever get to knit anything is 2 hours a week on Tuesday mornings, when I go to my knitting group full of other people who want to hold the baby.
Everyone thinks it’s a hat. It’s not a hat.
One very neat thing about this project is that it’s grown to the point that it can serve as its own knitting bag:
Now that, uh, five months have gone by, I’ve finally hauled my spinning wheel out of its coat-closet sabbatical and set it up next to my work computer. (When I’m not babywrangling or thinking about yarn, I work at home doing random webby things.)
I’ve actually been getting a lot of spinning done. Curiously enough, it’s easy to pick up and spin for a minute or two between work tasks. I am kicking myself for not realizing this sooner.
This spin is boring as all get out, but I feel like this is a very good exercise for me. Spinning plain white roving lets you tune out the qualities of the fiber and just zone out on the actual spinning of it.
You’ll notice from the photo that at one point a couple of years ago I had a bout of paranoia in which I labeled all of my bobbins on the “TOP” and “BOTTOM” because I thought if I put a half-spun bobbin on the wheel in the wrong direction it would mess up my yarn. I have since realized this is not true, and feel sort of silly about it now.
This yarn I am spinning will be my first true three-ply. I know, the last time I mentioned this yarn I was planning for it to be a two-ply. But in the meantime, I found my fourth Majacraft bobbin! w00t, as the kids say!
Anyhow, since I’ll be plying three singles together, I’m thinking it might be time to upgrade my ghetto handmade needles-poked-through-a-Corona-box setup to a real actual Lazy Kate when I eventually finish spinning the third bobbin of this stuff. Considering I started spinning this yarn last summer, I’m hoping to buy it sometime before the end of the year. 
