I love the Stargate tv series, mostly Stargate Atlantis, but either is fine. Perfect knitting/spinning tv watching or should I say listening fodder. There is plenty of techno babble speak throughout the series involving time dilation fields, out of phase episodes, alternate realities, and black holes. I fear my tv world is turning into a reality. I swear I'm in the black hole of knitting. I've been knitting and knitting and knitting and KNITTING on my Atalanta scarf. Now I love this scarf. See? What's not to love. I am much farther than this picture. YES I AM! I love the yarn. I love the pattern. I especially love the criss crossy border. However, I'm still knitting on the first skein of yarn. I actually did start knitting the pattern as if I'm at the half way point. But I'm still on the same flipping skein! I look at it each time I start, convinced that today will be the day that it will run out. The second skein is wound into a cake and ready to go. Each night when I'm putting it away I look and.... sigh...that little ball is still going strong. I keep telling myself to just keep finishing each pattern repeat and before I know it I will be able to start the decreases and then WHOOSH! I will finish it.
Now I will admit I have let spinning take the forefront in my crafting time. I finished two skeins of frolic. I love how it turned out, it is very girlie I think. There is enough roving to have another 2 skeins so I think I will end up with over 900 yards of Frolic.
The BFL variegated spun up beautifully. I have two nice skeins of that although they are still waiting for a soak to finish the twist. But what needs to really happen is knitting some hats out of my handspun. My goal is to have some hats knit out of my handspun along with kits of the pattern and yarn to sell both at Lila and Claudines as well as at the two upcoming fiber/art festivals I'm participating in this fall. So black hole of knitting or not, I must put aside my scarf and whip up some cute hats, I'm leaning towards one baby/kid hat and one hopefully two adult hats. Did I mention the first event is October 1? And looking at the calendar, that is a mere 5 weeks away. Oh ya, can't see why I'm stressed over that at all! Besides what have I got to do other than spinning, devising an oh so clever little pattern or two or three,and knit those clever patterns? Oh just a full time job, two girls starting school in a couple weeks, shopping for final school clothes for my girls, getting girls and/or mom to various Dr. appointments and finding time to sleep. No problem.
If only I could figure out that time dilation field thing where time goes much slower in one reality than the other. My luck? I'd whip myself into the time that is moving exponentially faster than now....hmmmmm....maybe I already did!
The BFL variegated spun up beautifully. I have two nice skeins of that although they are still waiting for a soak to finish the twist. But what needs to really happen is knitting some hats out of my handspun. My goal is to have some hats knit out of my handspun along with kits of the pattern and yarn to sell both at Lila and Claudines as well as at the two upcoming fiber/art festivals I'm participating in this fall. So black hole of knitting or not, I must put aside my scarf and whip up some cute hats, I'm leaning towards one baby/kid hat and one hopefully two adult hats. Did I mention the first event is October 1? And looking at the calendar, that is a mere 5 weeks away. Oh ya, can't see why I'm stressed over that at all! Besides what have I got to do other than spinning, devising an oh so clever little pattern or two or three,and knit those clever patterns? Oh just a full time job, two girls starting school in a couple weeks, shopping for final school clothes for my girls, getting girls and/or mom to various Dr. appointments and finding time to sleep. No problem. 
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