I’m a bad person to be a blogger. In the beginning I’m all excited about writing, taking pictures, sharing… Then life intrudes and I think, oh, I’ll do that tomorrow. Of course, tomorrow never comes. It’s a good thing I’m only a co-blogger here. Here’s a short pictorial history of the past few weeks, courtesy of my camera.

Travel

Earlier this month, you’ll recall, I went to Arizona to visit my folks. In addition to celebrating my mother’s birthday, I went to see the place they’re moving to and offer assistance in weeding and packing. This is the atrium of the retirement community they’re moving to. Pretty nifty, yes? This place has everything you could ever want; they even have knitting lessons on Friday afternoon. Although Mom is in a serious dither right now (no, she doesn’t want help weeding and packing, thank-you-very-much), I think they’ll be very happy once they’re moved in and settled.

Knitting

I ended up taking the mitered square blanket as my travel project, and got quite a bit done sitting in various airports across the country. This is a horrible picture (not enough coffee, I think) and doesn’t do justice to the beauty that is this blanket. I’ve had such fun working on this. Each square is like starting a new project. It’s garnered so much attention at the store that we’re going to be having a class on this in June.  PS — the edges aren’t really that wobbly. Carpeting is not the best place to display this kind of knitting.

Speaking of knitting — here’s a photo of a sock being knitted out of Liz’s Sgt. Dayglo yarn.  Not by me, but my friend Mitzi.  I love how the colors are turning out.

Spinning

I’m not taking very good pictures this morning.  This is what I just finished spinning.  Four ounces of Falkland wool, in a color called Pink Tutu.  It’s more peach than pink, definitely not the yellow you see on your monitor.  This was an experiment for me.  I usually spin fairly thin.  I wanted to see if I could get a thicker, sproingy yarn.  As you can see, the answer is yes and no.  Much of the fault lies in my hands, but some of the problem is the wool.  Falkland is a breed whose ancestors are mostly merinos, but there’s a bit of Lincoln Longwool in there, and that’s the culprit, methinks.  I had a lot of trouble drafting it evenly, which causes the thick and thin spots.  Oh well, it’ll probably knit up just fine.  I have a simple Faroese shawl in mind for this.

Food

My friend Helen asked me for recipes the other day.  She’s fed up with cooking the same old stuff, and knows that I collect cookbooks.  This is a new recipe that I tried last night, and will definitely add to the repertoire.  I’m not sure how I stumbled onto Heidi’s blog, but it’s led me down the path to other food blogs.  If I’m not careful I could spend the whole evening in front of the computer, reading about food and yarn.