Mundane life of late has been a bit of a headache. Thank goodness for fiber arts to give me a little distraction, stress relief, and a sense that I'm accomplishing something useful and tangible. I finished my second pair of knee-high socks - I had a brain fart during the toe wedge and forgot how to m1 without creating a hole, but rather than rip back to the beginning, these are now a "ventilation feature". I wore them during a visit home to celebrate my sister's graduation from university, and she and my mom accepted my offer to make them each a pair of crew socks.
In spinning news, I ordered some roving from Knit Picks and some old wooden textile-mill bobbins from an Etsy seller. Funny story - I asked for my husband's input when deciding which colors I wanted to order. I had already settled on blue, but was waffling between a mossy green and a rich magenta/purple. He argued that purple was the better color "because it has more blue". Whatever. I ordered all three in the end. After a few sessions with this roving I can already see an improvement in the uniformity of the singles I'm spinning with my top-whorl spindle.
