I'm A Producing Sheep

Despite the utter emotional and temporal chaos in which I am living due to the phenomenon we here in our little corner of the world like to call Daylight Savings Time, I have managed to put this day into some sort of perspective and get something done. I generally do OK when we set the clocks back in the fall. But this whole "spring ahead" an hour thing does me in every time. It's a mere sixty minutes, but I feel like I lose a whole day such is my confusion over where I am in those twenty four hours.

Near as I can tell, I just got out of bed an hour ago. Never mind that the clock is telling me that we are nigh on dinner time. Or that I seem to recall having lunch today. And I'm watching Pokemon on TV and that is on at five o'clock in the afternoon so it can't be morning.

I'm a mess. Tomorrow's teaching day should be fun...

Any-hoo...like I was saying: I did actually manage to produce a bit today. I wound off an impressive length of The Shire blend from the spindle and onto a bobbin without incident and began a second lot. I made it past the inch of ribbing on the mate to the sock completed yesterday and am now happily working the mindless stockinette stitch portion of the leg. I wonder if I can finish this sock in something less than the month the first one took.

I also completed the finishing on a test knit that I've been working on and sent the final "beauty shot" picture to the author of the pattern for her perusal. Without permission, I won't post the actual item, but I can give a little teaser of which I think she'd approve.

Yup...it's felt. And pink. Two of my favorite things.

Having completed my obligations to the knitting community, I then perched myself near the wheel and began spinning happily away on a merino/silk blend from Spunky Eclectic that I purchased at SPA. It seems like that was so very long ago...seriously, I'm having wicked time issues here!

Kinda pretty, dontcha think?

This shot was actually taken earlier in the day. In real time (which is also Daylight Savings Time, I guess) I'm almost finished with the first four ounce lot. I may even have it all on the bobbin before I call this weekend finished. I'm still not really seeing what this yarn wants to be when it grows up. Maybe once it's plied it will speak to me more clearly. Meanwhile, I'm just enjoying the play of color and feel of the silk. I'll be sad to see it finished, but there are eight more ounces in a different colorway sitting in the fiber waiting room so there will be more to come.

So with a sock, a felted project, and a full bobbin in the "done" column, I'm feeling like I did pretty well in my quest to finish some of the "to do's" this weekend. The next few weeks are going to be busy ones, but I'm still thinking that I've made a decent dent in the pile for the time being.

That's right...you can take away an hour of my weekend, but you can't keep a good Sheep down.

SA