Delinquent

I've been away from my blog for too long. Its because I've been suddenly, kind of by surprise, trying to figure out my whole life. Everything feels alternately excitingly possible, and a little bit hopeless. Take the tank top, for intance. I love the yarn; it was worth the endless spinning. I love the drape. I love the pattern. And it fits! But...I want that bust line in the pattern to fit UNDER my breasts, and although the fabric is very stretchy, I'm still gonna need more than that little dab of fabric in the V neck to cover whatever bra I wear with this; or if no bra, then...well, to cover me.

Yep, I'm gonna have to rip. A tank top. In October. Sure, its not the biggest rip in the world, but its fall for sure in Wisconsin, and I'm not likely to get this done in time for the warm weather. I'm thinking I might rip it, put it on a string, and store it till late winter to free up some time for more seasonally appropriate projects.

And here's another example of hopeful/hopeless. This is the merino for my ongoing not-Koigu shawl. Yep, I've shown you pictures of the progress on this before, and I'm pretty sure it always looks exactly like this! Bored? Think how I feel!! It takes a looooong time to fill a bobbin with this tiny singles, and then I have to fill another one, and then I have to ply them.

True, then I get six skeins of not-Koigu, and I get to dye it, but...yikes! This is taking forever! And its not like the knitting is fast either. Suffice it to say, not much progress on the knitting for this project. That's because I'm spinning for it, and its NEVER going to be done!

Normally, I would just coast along spinning this every now and then forever, but I need to do some Secret Pal top secret spinning! Yes, I do have more bobbins, but I'm superstitious and think that if I leave this midproject, and spin something totally different, my fingers will forget exactly how I was going about this.

And another true confession from Martha: I don't particularly like to spin all white. I just love to spin things that are already dyed, or some groovy natural colored fiber. And I have this box of little goodies waiting for my attention! The white merino for the endless shawl is killing me! And I haven't even shown you my whole TRUNK full of unspun fiber, all gorgeous, and much of it already dyed. And I haven't shown you my little stash of yak down either...

Sigh. I'm going to have to just take that merino off my wheel and trust that I'll be able to resume where I left off, I guess.