It’s picture time! From left to right we have:

1. The first of my Fuzzy Feet. The second one is almost finished and then it will be time to felt. These are made using my very first effort at handspinning. I bought the roving at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival and can’t truly remember what I bought — I have a hunch it is Coriedale. Besides learning how to spin, I have also learned another spinning lesson – keep track of how many yards you have spun! As I am knitting these, I have a mantra running through my brain
pleaselettherebeenoughpleaselettherebeenoughpleaselettherebeenoughpleaselettherebeenoughpleaselettherebeenough.

It is not pleasant.

2. Fabulous roving from The Dye Pot. It arrived in my mailbox on Saturday – it is so soft and luxurious!! Michelle is a wonderful, talented person and you should absolutely check out her site – I cannot say enough how much I love it! ( I have lost all short term memory and cannot remember what this fiber is made of, so as you can see, I really can’t say too much more about it — whatever it is, is super soft!!) She tied the package with the spun piece you see in the front of the picture. I am new to this game so I don’t know if that is a sample of what this roving should look like after it is spun ….. we shall see, it is a spinning cliff hanger!

3. This next ball of roving I got from Ebay – it is ‘ultra fine english long wool roving combed top in multi colored olive green tones’. I can tell you what is in it ,simply because I managed to save the slip that came with it! note to self: save any & all slips

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Smurf Name Generator

I am Slowly Evaporating Smurf. This explains why I never liked that show (besides the fact that I was too old to be watching cartoons when Smurfs were in their heyday).

Their language annoyed me. I know that one must suspend disbelief in order to truly enjoy cartoons – the crazy situations, the lack of gravity – but I simply cannot tolerate it with language.

Not only were they blue, and little, and strangely, deeply weird — these Smurfs walked around injecting the word Smurf into every sentence! outrageous purlingswine.

enough about purlingswine that. Tomorrow I will be posting purlingswine pictures of some fabulous roving that I have purlingswine recently received…… stay purlingswine tuned. I have also been hard at purlingswinework on Fuzzy Feet and did I mention that the purlingswinePoncho is purlingswinecompleted?

Smurf Name Generator

I am Slowly Evaporating Smurf. This explains why I never liked that show (besides the fact that I was too old to be watching cartoons when Smurfs were in their heyday).

Their language annoyed me. I know that one must suspend disbelief in order to truly enjoy cartoons – the crazy situations, the lack of gravity – but I simply cannot tolerate it with language.

Not only were they blue, and little, and strangely, deeply weird — these Smurfs walked around injecting the word Smurf into every sentence! outrageous purlingswine.

enough about purlingswine that. Tomorrow I will be posting purlingswine pictures of some fabulous roving that I have purlingswine recently received…… stay purlingswine tuned. I have also been hard at purlingswinework on Fuzzy Feet and did I mention that the purlingswinePoncho is purlingswinecompleted?

Feeling pressed for time? Try Book-A-Minute!

I especially loved Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

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(Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert send for an orphan boy to help out at Green Gables.)

Anne Shirley: I’m here.

Marilla Cuthbert: Anne Shirley, you are not a boy. Go back to the orphanage.

Anne Shirley: If I work really hard, stay out of trouble, enrich your lives with my buoyant spirit, rescue you from the doldrums of your pragmatic ways, and touch the hearts of the townsfolk…then can I stay?

Marilla Cuthbert: Well, ok.

(Anne does all these things except stay out of trouble.)

THE END

I also enjoyed A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond

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Paddington: I’ve been abandoned at the station.

Mr. and Mrs. Brown: We will take care of you.

(They DO, and the Browns’ lives are no longer BORING but instead become NOT BORING.)

THE END

thanks to Beancounter for the great link!