Happy Friday

Wheel update. Wednesday night it left the UPS clearing house in Hodgkins IL at 8:30 PM. Looks like a suburb of Chicago. It says it will arrive Monday to our home and then I get to assemble it and give it a test run. :)


I found this on Inky's blog and was shocked when the score came up. So the rhetoric about sleep learning was correct because I was not a very good student in High School. Lots of late nights watching the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and the Tomorrow show with Tom Snyder and sleeping in the back of class. I've always loved late night television and still love the wee hours of the morning.

You paid attention during 100% of high school!

85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don't get scores that high! Good show, old chap!

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The Malabrigo scarf is over 50" long now and coming into the home stretch, about 17" left to get the correct length. I figure as soon as I finish it it will warm up and she won't need it.

the OC Pubknitters group has swelled to a dozen attending the meetings. Our friend Stacey joined us Wednesday night for the fun and diverse crowd. The one part of the night that was amusing to me was when I noticed one of the ladies had out her TI 86 graphing calculator to do some arithmetic for her project. A couple of the ladies either have a PhD or are working on one in microbiology so it's natural that they have powerful calculators but it's not normal to see someone whip it out at the knitting table. Mine sits in my desk drawer at work collecting dust while I carry a free solar low end model with large keys to do any simple calculations. Funny how you learn all the math and need the calculator until you graduate and then it's just a trophy that you don't need it anymore. Knowing the area under the curve isn't required to knit thank goodness. Poor Megann has a bad cold, We all Miss you! Get well soon.

I'm missing the monthly men's knit night because tonight we plan to go over to A Mano Yarn Center for the monthly Bad Girls Knit Night. Guys are allowed to come too. :) One of our friends is moving away and this is sort of a send off party for her. I know it seems like we have a knitting group for every day of the week, not really it just feels like it when they all meet on the same day. Saturday morning I going to the Greater Los Angeles Spinning Guild meeting for my first time there. Really looking forward to meeting these people. I know my wheel won't be here until Monday but I have a wheel to use until then. More on that at a later date.

WIP pics

I thought I should post a WIP photo after a comment from Jadielady. Thanks for the comment by the way.



The coloring has created an interesting pattern in the scarf. Almost a zig zag.

Today we drove down to Alamitos Bay Yarn Company. I received a gift certificate in the Christmas gift swap and wanted to find something special. I didn't find any yarn really that I loved. Their was a hank of Colinette sock yarn that I may go back and get. Or maybe a set of Susanne's ebony needles in a size that we don't have.

After a little look in the shop we walked along the boat harbor and found an empty bench and just relaxed in the sun. Well of course we knit, always bringing our knitting along with us.

On the way home we saw this; Just another odd person driving around on the Southern California freeways. How did this get through the filtering system at the DMV.

Mini Update

Hi all.


Little knitting update. The scarf is 32% complete. I won't bore you all with WIP pictures.



This is the mega week for of knitting groups. Wednesday was our weekly pub knit night, Thursday was the UCI group night and Friday is the monthly men's knit night.


Making plans to meet new people next week at the whole foods knit in public night.



Stash update... I finished the sock yarn inventory and the stash will show 60 + more hanks of sock weight than last summer. I have a pile of yarn ready to be photographed and then stacked away. I will try to load some of it on Ravelry this weekend. I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. We're expecting low 70 deg weather. :)

travlin' Man spinning his wheels or drop spindle for right now.

I saw this on Lynn's Blog and wanted to play along.

Four states left to see.
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The Scarf is growing so fast. It's wonderful when you knit everyday, your projects actually grow. it's 17.9% complete as of the end of my lunch time. I knit each day during my lunch time as opposed to eating just because the clock says it's feeding time. I'm at the honeymoon phase of this project. I've memorized the pattern to create the mock cable but I'm not sick of the color or the project in general. You know that feeling when it feels like you have been working on it forever and it still seems to look like you have a mile to go. I'm still looking to pick it up and not thinking about patterns for the next project or browsing our stash for something to inspire my next project. I'll load WIP pics on Ravelry tonight.

I was supposed to inventory another yarn stash shelf last night, update the Excel sheet and check for photos. After the George Forman BBQ Chicken dinner last night I just wanted to curl up on the couch with the fire on. Maybe tonight?

I joined the two local spinning guilds over the last few weeks. OC Nightspinners and the Greater Los Angeles Spinning Guild. We have those two plus the local spinning group that is reforming since the New Year. I'm still on the drop spindle but the saving for the Fricke S160DT-F wheel is almost complete. With the Christmas holiday season over let the spinning begin. I know I was looking at the Majacraft Rose but it's hard to justify twice the money for my first wheel. Yes it's pretty but it's a tool to create fiber not to impress the other members of the guilds I haven't even been to yet. I spun each wheel last month and this feels very smooth, has all the bells and whistles at half the price. All the high praise in the open forum reviews was well deserved as well as a few people I have spoken to off the boards. I know that if I love spinning as much as I expect it, I will buy a production Saxony wheel for home and the Fricke to use as my travel wheel. Then I can get the drum carder and all the other cool tools too :)


Last night I saw a post on the GLASG yahoo board where I was mentioned. Someone who has read my blog at one point, saw when I joined last month and was hoping to see me at the guild meeting that was a couple Saturdays ago. Another Orange County spinner joined the same guild and she recommended our Pubknitters to this new spinner member as a regular knit night group. Thanks Kim! Maybe someday you can join us in Laguna for a drink of your choice and some wonderful conversation between stitches. I'll be at the next guild meeting though.

That's all for now.
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Sock and scarf

How about something different here? We did some knitting last weekend while waiting for the water to rise.



Lookie Lookie 1/2 FO and one WIP


The Mrs, completed her first sock of 2008.
Pomatomus by Cookie A


Araucania Ranco Multi 310 - Purple-Blue-Berry



I'm doing my first Malabrigo project. A Mock Cable Scarf Colorway Polygala

So soft and so very pretty.