Random Wednesday
Wednesday.
1. The last Wednesday of the school year for the kids. Yay! Can't wait to have them home!
2. Next project: Undulating Waves Scarf with beads. This is my first attempt incorporating beads into a knit piece so I'm looking forward to learning a new skill.
Yarn: Schaefer Heather (Merino wool and silk....yummm. In brown, burgundy and deep plum ...also yummm.)
3. I finished spinning up some Blue Faced Leister* from Allspunup. Here is it drying after a cleansing bath. Notice high tech use of hangers and towels. Oooooo.
And here is a close up showing the final product all plied up. The colors remind me of a woodland.
*Blue Faced Leister, despite what it sounds like, is a breed of sheep with a long staple length* and a lovely soft hand.
*Staple length is the actual length of the wool fibers.
4. I wanna be a comparative philologist.
5. From the files of "Sometimes I really amuse myself". I was vacuuming in the bathroom yesterday. (This in itself might seem an odd activity but our laundry is in the downstairs bathroom so it tends to get a bit linty. Nothing a vacuum doesn't solve and quite honestly I totally enjoying attaching the hose to the vacuum and hearing the little rattle rattle when you suck stuff up. Very satisfying.) I had finished vacuuming along the edges of the washer and dryer and under the hampers and I was preparing to turn around to vacuum around the toilet and wastepaper basket behind me. Well, I must have swung the hose behind me in preparation to turn around -- it's not that big of a space -- and I started hearing this ticka-ticka-ticka. As I was pondering the sound, it started to accelerate, ticka-ticka-ticka-ticka, and then developed into more of a whirrrrrrrrr. Naturally, I looked. I found that I had caught the end of the toilet paper roll with the vacuum hose and the sound was the accelerating spinning of the toilet paper roll on the holder as it was being efficiently sucked into the hose and up into the vacuum. Result: I have a vacuum bag full of toilet paper. Bummer. (Hee. Hee.)
1. The last Wednesday of the school year for the kids. Yay! Can't wait to have them home!
2. Next project: Undulating Waves Scarf with beads. This is my first attempt incorporating beads into a knit piece so I'm looking forward to learning a new skill.
Yarn: Schaefer Heather (Merino wool and silk....yummm. In brown, burgundy and deep plum ...also yummm.)
3. I finished spinning up some Blue Faced Leister* from Allspunup. Here is it drying after a cleansing bath. Notice high tech use of hangers and towels. Oooooo.
And here is a close up showing the final product all plied up. The colors remind me of a woodland.
*Blue Faced Leister, despite what it sounds like, is a breed of sheep with a long staple length* and a lovely soft hand.
*Staple length is the actual length of the wool fibers.
4. I wanna be a comparative philologist.
5. From the files of "Sometimes I really amuse myself". I was vacuuming in the bathroom yesterday. (This in itself might seem an odd activity but our laundry is in the downstairs bathroom so it tends to get a bit linty. Nothing a vacuum doesn't solve and quite honestly I totally enjoying attaching the hose to the vacuum and hearing the little rattle rattle when you suck stuff up. Very satisfying.) I had finished vacuuming along the edges of the washer and dryer and under the hampers and I was preparing to turn around to vacuum around the toilet and wastepaper basket behind me. Well, I must have swung the hose behind me in preparation to turn around -- it's not that big of a space -- and I started hearing this ticka-ticka-ticka. As I was pondering the sound, it started to accelerate, ticka-ticka-ticka-ticka, and then developed into more of a whirrrrrrrrr. Naturally, I looked. I found that I had caught the end of the toilet paper roll with the vacuum hose and the sound was the accelerating spinning of the toilet paper roll on the holder as it was being efficiently sucked into the hose and up into the vacuum. Result: I have a vacuum bag full of toilet paper. Bummer. (Hee. Hee.)
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