Got A Lot Done This Week

In both the knitting and non-knitting worlds of my life. In the knitting world of my life I was able to:
1.) Get going again on my Irish Hiking Scarf. It's been sitting there on the needles for about 5 months. I've had other projects that were demanding my time with deadlines that were more pressing. Ok it was originally going to be a Christmas present last year for my Dad, but when I realized it wasn't going to be done in time for Christmas last year or his birthday this year, I decided to make it one of his Christmas presents this year. I'd have more than enough time then. Now with the other projects out of the way, I have time for it now.

2.) I've nearly finished the scarf for my ISE 4 pal. It will actually be done by tomorrow night. Blocking and all. That will give me plenty of fime to get it ready to go out.

3.) I got a couple more rounds done on my lovely socks. Oh, what an adventure they were today. I went to work on them, went the twong way for half a round, had to undo that bit and get them onto smaller needles. Then back onto the correct needles for fear I was going to break the bamboo needles they were on for those weren't my needles. BY the time i got that accomplished I should have known to take a breather. I didn't though. By the time I got going it was 45 minutes later. What took me 45 minutes? I couldn't figure out what direction to go in and which needles to use. Ok if you go in 1 direction and that's the wrong way then you need to go the other way right?! But the 2 tips of 2 circs had me stumped for some reason till I remembered I had my book with me to help me out. Definitley needed more caffiene to wake up. At least I provided humor for the others in my SnB group.
4.) Did some destashing.

In the Non-Knitting world of my life:
1.) Got back in touch with another family member
2.) Had my usual group and appointement
3.) Attended the monthly Community Advisory Board meeting
4.) Ran the Advocacy Committee Meeting (I chair the committee) that meets every other month.
5.) Attended the AdHoc committee where we chose award recipients (if you know me no I will not tell you who's getting the awards. I'm not allowed to till the Annual Dinner next month)
6.) Some heavy duty spring cleaning and rearranging.
7.) Spun and set the twist of about 37 yards of wool.

Plying

I finally spun enough to ply. Ok not enough to make anything, but enough to ply. Now to dye. It's been a busy week so not much knitting has occured. now that it's calmed down for the most part I can start knitting again.

Well, I managed to go from 6 wips to 4 monday. While doing housekeeping I found a couple hats I started back before Christmas. I never even really added them to the sidebar. Well, after doing my housekeeping I satdown and finished them. Felt nice to get them done. I feel like I got something accomplished. So now My wip's are: Chaos, Alice Sweater, Irish Aran Sweater, and the Irish Hiking Scarf.
My spinning is going along really well.
The package to my SP will be going out on next Monday. I'm waiting for one last thing to come in. I've enjoyed this round of SP9. It was my first one.

Life Is Grand

Ups finally delivered my 19lbs of Wool, Alpaca, and Silk that my firend sent me. Yes, 19lbs. Took a few phone calls to UPS to get it here. Apparently in their world I do not live here at my address and the house is not numbered. Heck, I've been living here since May and the house is numbered. Heck, the UPS driver knows our porch like the back of his hand the way he's here. Oh well. Here's some pics of what she sent. Only things that are missing from the pics are my huge smile, a shuttle, and a smaller drop spindle (for silk). There's also a cpuple pics of Cliona being cute.

Progress is slowly being made on my Aran Sweater. The ribbing has been finished and I have moved on th the pattern itself. It may have taken me about a week but I have finally completed 1 pattern repeat. The pattern uses the following stitches: seed, regular cable, wishbone cable, and blackberry.

My spinning is going along. Slowly getting the hang of it. I've spun all of the black wool that I was sent ith the spindle and am making a good dent in the white wool. The package from my friend was supposed to arrive today, but it didn't. We'll see what tomorrow brings.

I'm also working on putting the final parts of my SP's package together. With any luck it'll go ut in a week.

The spindle arrived Friday morning. I'm slowly getting the hang of it. Slowly being the operative word here. The real fun though should start Tuesday night. THat's when the stuff from my friend should be arriving.

The Aran sweater is goming along slowly, but surely. I finally finished the ribbing on the back and have gotten to the pattern stitches. I haven't gotten through 1 repeat yet, but it'll eventually get done.