So it seems I'm not the only one with unruly spindle-eating pets. Here's a photo of Peaches & Jack the cat where they both look like they're up to no good.
I purchased another Tracy Eichheim spindle, the hearts production spindle seen HERE. On the sheet that came with the spindle it states, "DOGS chew on spindles! One lady came home to find her dog had opened her backpack and totally destroyed her spindle. I have repaired several spindle stems with teeth marks. Be warned!"
So it seems I'm not the only one with unruly spindle-eating pets. Here's a photo of Peaches & Jack the cat where they both look like they're up to no good.
So it seems I'm not the only one with unruly spindle-eating pets. Here's a photo of Peaches & Jack the cat where they both look like they're up to no good.
GETTING ORGANIZED
Yesterday evening I organized my overflowing recipe file and today I plan to organize my knitting/spinning stuff. All through the week I have a container in the living room where I put my needles and balls of yarn after I finish a project. At least once a week I put all the needles back in their circular solutions containers and all the yarn back in the Rubbermaid containers in Peaches' room.
I also need to write down my various completed projects in my knitting notebook. I'm about a month behind on that but I can use my blog archives to quickly get the info. I'll post my totals for the year once I finish. I also use my knitting notebook for project notes, a list of knitted items I send off to friends or charity, and fun quotes or ideas. Once I was watching figure skating on tv and a coach had on such a beautiful sweater (probably a Dale). I used my knitting notebook to jot down the details and I included a sketch.
I keep a small index card file for spinning. I put a small sample of each yarn spun on the index card along with all the pertinent details - date, whether spindle or wheel spun, where I got the fiber, what I plan to do with the yarn, etc. This index card file is also nostalgic with yarns from pets now in heaven and a sample of my very first handspun yarn in 1996.
Yesterday evening I organized my overflowing recipe file and today I plan to organize my knitting/spinning stuff. All through the week I have a container in the living room where I put my needles and balls of yarn after I finish a project. At least once a week I put all the needles back in their circular solutions containers and all the yarn back in the Rubbermaid containers in Peaches' room.
I also need to write down my various completed projects in my knitting notebook. I'm about a month behind on that but I can use my blog archives to quickly get the info. I'll post my totals for the year once I finish. I also use my knitting notebook for project notes, a list of knitted items I send off to friends or charity, and fun quotes or ideas. Once I was watching figure skating on tv and a coach had on such a beautiful sweater (probably a Dale). I used my knitting notebook to jot down the details and I included a sketch.
I keep a small index card file for spinning. I put a small sample of each yarn spun on the index card along with all the pertinent details - date, whether spindle or wheel spun, where I got the fiber, what I plan to do with the yarn, etc. This index card file is also nostalgic with yarns from pets now in heaven and a sample of my very first handspun yarn in 1996.
I finished my experiments with my Romney. Surprisingly I could find absolutely no difference in the yarn plyed on the wheel and the yarn plyed with a spindle. None. I'm waiting until next week to look at the difference between the same fiber wheel spun and spindle spun.
I now have enough Romney spun to finish a pair of socks by Thursday to show you. This Romney isn't as elastic as I'd like so I'm just knitting some plain ribbed socks with it instead of something cabled.
I think these socks are seriously ugly. I think there is too much yellow in the multi-colored yarn not to mention the pooling. They are uglier in person because there is even less contrast between the two yarns. I really really really hate multicolored yarns so please slap me if I ever buy any again.
I'd normally quit knitting on a project I found ugly but I couldn't come up with anything else simple enough to work on during the ALCS. Now we have the World Series and I just know if I start a project with a complicated chart the minute I look away Manny Ramirez will start doing somersaults in the outfield or Curt Schilling will start hemorrhaging. So the rest of the week I'm going to be spinning my pretty blue Romney and then making a pair of socks with them for the last project of Socktober. After that I plan to work for a long time with size 0 dpns and my wonderful stash of Shetland wool.
Go check out Chery's gorgeous Dale of Norway sweater! It seems like she can turn out one of these babies in about a month. Also check out a new knitting blog with some delicious-sounding cake recipes and the world's cutest knit hat model.
Apparently Peaches isn't the only bad house rabbit in the blog world this week. Go check out what Miss Baxter did to a perfectly innocent computer mouse.
I'd normally quit knitting on a project I found ugly but I couldn't come up with anything else simple enough to work on during the ALCS. Now we have the World Series and I just know if I start a project with a complicated chart the minute I look away Manny Ramirez will start doing somersaults in the outfield or Curt Schilling will start hemorrhaging. So the rest of the week I'm going to be spinning my pretty blue Romney and then making a pair of socks with them for the last project of Socktober. After that I plan to work for a long time with size 0 dpns and my wonderful stash of Shetland wool.
Go check out Chery's gorgeous Dale of Norway sweater! It seems like she can turn out one of these babies in about a month. Also check out a new knitting blog with some delicious-sounding cake recipes and the world's cutest knit hat model.
Apparently Peaches isn't the only bad house rabbit in the blog world this week. Go check out what Miss Baxter did to a perfectly innocent computer mouse.
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