This week has been a busy one, but here are the highlights….. A Win, a Dream, and a Frogging!
Before I go on to explain the win, dream, and frogging I want to THANK everyone for the nice complements on my Spinzilla spinning. I had wanted to reply to each one of you, but then I saw how that was going to muddy up the numbering for the drawing. Besides thanking the kind writers there were also a few questions I’d like to answer. Roxie wanted to know if my Hansen needed a rest… My little Miss Mini is a trooper and kept up with me the whole time! Vicky asked when did I sleep……Let’s just say I don’t sleep a whole lot:) Ashley thought I should do something rewarding for myself…..my reward is that I have all the yarn I need for Christmas gift knitting!…..now to find the time to get the knitting done..lol.
Now on to the Win, the Dream, and the Frogging
The Win was most yards spun by an individual during Spinzilla. Team Fancy Tiger was the first place team, and Team Storey Publishing (which I was a member of) came in 3rd place. You can check out all the winners and prizes on the Spinzilla blog post My award, A Yarn to Yards Balance with the Spinzilla plaque arrived in the mail from the Woolery.
There are still a few days left for you to enter to win the High Tide skein of Bam Huey Handspun Yarn pictured above. To enter for your chance to win, leave a comment on the Spinzilla: It’s all over but the Awards Post by Midnight October 31st!
Now for my Dream……
It is about the Spinzilla competition next year. Those who know me, and put up with me, know I have done long marathon spinning sessions many times. Spinning all day for weeks at a time is what I love to do. Some people run marathons, some climb mountains, and others swim the English Channel…. me, I spin. My dream is to spend the week of Spinzilla next year in a hotel. This would be a fund raising spin in. I would have a room at the hotel, and the spin in would be in one of the meeting rooms that would be open 24 hours a day. Spinners could make a donations for the opportunity to spin along. When I dream, I dream big, so in my dream there would be a fiber supplier/mill that would donate the fiber, and all the spun yarn would be sold to benefit the Spinzilla education program, oh yeah…and my room and room service would be paid for:) It’s a big dream and I know I don’t have the skill to organize it, but boy do I want to do it!
Last but not least….the Frogging. …
I started a sweater from some of the yarn I spun for Spinzilla. I chose Anne Hanson’s Aztec Mazes This is my first sweater and I am a bit worried that it won’t fit. I’m knitting this as a surprise for Mr X. I don’t have exact measurements for Mr. X , and I am working with a different size yarn and needle than the pattern calls for. This means I have to work a bit of math to figure out gauge and which size to knit.
One does start to wonder if the sweater is too big when it doesn’t fit in the photo box…. Yikes! it was WAY TOO BIG! Turns out I rounded up when I should have been rounding down…lol…to the Frog Pile! There were a few tears among the Ripppp- it Rippppp-it noises, but all is well now. I’ve started over in a size smaller and will have some progress pictures of it next posting on November 1st when I announce the winner of the skein of Bam Huey yarn in High Tide. I will also have some pictures of a new needle style I made for sweater knitting.
until next time, Happy Spinning and Knitting!
Cheryl <^..^>