Delle (delle) wrote, @ 2008-01-15 12:46:00

2008 - the smaller stuff
So, I'm reviving my love of knitting and crochet at the moment. I blame finally getting round to joining Ravelry. That place is seriously addicting. I think another thing that is really helping is that I'm knitting something(s) other than the same baby shawl and crocheting something other than the same old giant granny square (that was actually the most scary - I had to learn a different stitch! And simultaneously learn to read a crochet pattern and be bi-lingual as American patterns and British patterns use the same terms but mean different things).

I'm currently waiting for my first ball of sock yarn to arrive, to see what I think of sock knitting.

On a slightly larger scale, this year, also want to learn to spin. To be precise, come Spring, I will have the possibility of having a (or actually several, but we'll start with one, OK) Jacob's fleece. Of course, because this is straight off the sheep it means I'm going to have to do the whole lot. Pick, wash, sort, prep, spin then knit. The plan is to go from fleece to two pairs of fingerless gloves by Christmas. When I say slightly larger, obviously, I mean huge and scary and probably completely undoable.

I also still want to do the 366 pictures challenge that Helen set, which may seem unlikely, given that it's 15 January and I've yet to even dig my camera out, but I'm still planning on it. I've already been ill twice this year, so things aren't going too well, but hopefully that's me getting all my illness out of the way at once (says the woman whose child is about to start nursery [rolleyes]). Not having the camera out meant I missed a darling photo op when my son decided to curl up and sleep on the floor.

Talking of boy photos, allegedly my husband and his father have set up a website where they can trade Ro photos. I need to find out where so that I can link you all (if they are accessible), or get hold of some to upload here (if they aren't). Otherwise, he's going to be 16 and you're all still going to be thinking of the 9 month old I last posted pics of.

	bally 2008-01-15 14:40 (link)
	When you mentioned learning to spin, I immediately thought of the exercise. D'oh! Good luck with it, though. It looks so therapeutic... you'll definitely have to show off your skills if you do learn. (Reply to this) (Thread)

callie_demeter 2008-01-15 15:48 (link)

Worryingly, so did I. And my sum total experience of spinning was a very painful class I bailed out of, about 4 years ago in Italy. I think it must be you and Chad Darnell talking about it that made me jump to the exercise thought. And Delle - even the girls who thought it up still haven't posted photos yet. A whole bunch of people joined up and got going, but the girls had exams. I'm only on photo 12, and I know my friend Gem's a bit behind too. But that just means you'll be able to post a few at each time. I think you can do it, and do it well - but no pressure at all, honestly [hug] And 9 months to 16 years would be quite a jump, yes :S (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)