As well as not having blogged since July, I haven’t done any spinning since then either. During the blogathon, I posted that I was spinning some gorgeous merino fibre. I got maybe 10g of the 100g braid actually done, and the spinning wheel has been in a corner ever since. I suppose I sort of lost my spinning mojo / motivation, then I was busy with other things. But I’m now feeling much more motivated, and I suddenly felt like actually finishing that. So, yesterday I hoiked the wheel back out of the corner, sat it in front of the telly, and spun all through Strictly Come Dancing and Casualty. And then, because I was on a bit of a roll, I put on the last two eps of Flash Forward which I still had to catch up on, and kept going. I’d split the braid into two approx 50g sections so that I could spin two roughly equal bobbins full, and I’d been aiming to finish the rest of the first 50g. In fact, I finished that first bobbin, and now I’m half way through the second:
I’m going to see if I can get a bit more done tonight before I go to bed. I’m still on a little bit of a sci-fi high from the new Doctor Who episode / special tonight, “The Waters of Mars”. Can’t wait til the next one at Christmas! But I need to wind down a bit more, so a bit of podcast listening and spinning should do the trick. Hopefully, I’ll get these singles bobbins finished and then plied within the next couple of days. I might use the remainder of my birthday money to get a niddy noddy, too. That’ll make winding the finished yarn back off the bobbin much easier.
Lovely, you mustn’t neglect poor kiwi Pukka pukka, he will get upset!
Thanks! I’ve finished it completely now – I’ll try to remember to bring it to show you next KnitJam.
But now I feel really bad about poor Pukka Pukka! Perhaps I should give him a hug? ;-)
Pretty yarn! Looks like the cat thinks so, too.
Thank you! The cat wasn’t very approving of my spending all that time spinning instead of paying attention to him!
Spinning with Dr. Who; what a wonderful way to spend an evening!
Heheh, I actually knitted during Dr Who – I still have to look down at my spinning every now and again, and I didn’t want to miss any Who ;-)