Time flies when life is crazy. International travel followed by the introduction of a new family member (see right) along with the stress of an archival collection move to prepare for at work has kept the days rolling by without note here. But, mostly, the addition of a puppy has taken up most of my time. There hasn’t even been a lot of knitting, and there’s been no spinning since we got her in October.
Her name is Lily, and we got her from a rescue that takes dogs out of kill shelters in SoCal and brings them north for adoption. Lily’s mom was the one actually rescued and then discovered to be pregnant. Mom was a white cockapoo, and there have been many guesses as to what dad may have been. The general consensus is either wire-haired dachshund or some sort of terrier. Lily’s nickname is Troublebutt — she’s 7 months old as of last week and has been having loads of fun finding news things to make a mess of.
With the Winter Olympics (and thus Ravelympics and the Knitting Olympics) about to commence tonight, I thought it was time to do some spring cleaning in the old blog. I’ve done away with the large gathering of dust bunnies Russian spam and installed a shiny new post. Of course, I have no idea if there’s anyone out there still bothering to read.
Now to decide on projects. For the Ravelympics, I’m on Team Suck Less, and my project is going to be to spin for a complete project. I just haven’t decided yet if I will be spinning for socks or a lace shawl. Decisions, decisions. I have some superwash corriedale from Spunky Eclectic in a pretty colorway called Soul Windows that would make nice socks. But, I also have some Dark BFL also from Spunky Eclectic in a colorway called Myrtle that would make a pretty Bitterroot.
For the Knitting Olympics, I’ve put my name in and said I’d be knitting an Ishbel shawl with some of my handspun shetland romney laceweight yarn. (Oops, signed up saying it was shetland, oh well.) I haven’t really done a lot with my handspun yarn because I sometimes upset myself by only seeing the imperfections in the yarn as I’m knitting it rather than the loveliness of the project. So, my challenge is to knit a project with my handspun… and actually finish it.
oooh…looks like fun! I randomly picked a project and associated yarn this morning.
I love your pup. We got our colliemutt from the Marin Humane Society. We lived down the road from them and it was just a matter of time before we caved. I love rescue dogs. You did an awesome thing.
your handspun looks lovely! and i can’t wait to see your version of brandy wine!