I looked up and saw this:
and this:
After all the rain we had it’s finally clearing up.
Projects for summer break 2010
This year I will be prepared. I will have a list:
- Actually go on vacation for about a week.
- “Spring” clean the whole house.
- Prepare knitting classes for fall.
- Relax.
- Teach my son to swim.
- Edit my 2007 NaNoWriMo-first draft.
- Paint kitchen.
- Learn background vocals for songs to be played at friend’s birthday party in mid-August.
- Learn how to bake bread.
- Take a picture every day and post it on the internet. For details on this you might want to check out Sue Snaps.
- Play the piano every day.
- Sing every day.
- Play the guitar every day.
- Finish spindle spun sock yarn.
- Spin yarn for Vine Yoke Cardigan.
- Try my hand at doing a knitting podcast.
- Renovate my blog so that it looks nice again.
- Meditate every day.
- Exercise.
Sounds all very reasonable and do-able, doesn’t it? [Insert mad laughter here.]
Summer break starts next week.
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cake for breakfast
presents and flowers
cataloguing my Tour de Fleece yarns
looking at my presents again
after that there was teaching, frozen pizza and beer, a walk with my husband (special treat, my mother-in-law took our son for the night), and casting on for a new pair of socks in Wollmeise
White belt
Since today my son is the proud owner of a bit of yellow sticky tape on his taekwon-do belt. I’m very proud.
Rain all day
Rain all day. Porcini risotto for lunch. Spinning while watching the Tour de France for three hours in the afternoon. Finding that of the 150 grams of alpaca there were 95 on the bobbin and 75 still left, a bit of a puzzle. Reminder: weigh fiber before spinning next time. Dancing to “Whiter Shade of Pale” with my son while my husband practices the bass part. Ironing my son’s Taekwondo uniform for tomorrow.
Yet another project
On Sunday while waiting for the train I was struck by the thought that I really need to make myself a Vine Yoke Cardigan out of handspun. I got obsessed with the idea and spent all of Monday researching fiber. I wanted something that was a natural chocolate brown. Not too short-stapled so that it wears well, not too robust so that it’s soft enough.
Today I got the box in the mail. This ball of fiber is huge, it’s 1 kilo (not quite 2 pounds). I also bought the pattern. I’m looking forward to this like crazy but I guess going by my usual rate I’ll probably finish this in August. Next year.