the north wind doth blow ***

***

and we shall have snow,
And what will poor robin do then, poor thing?
He'll sit in a barn and keep himself warm
and hide his head under his wing, poor thing.

only here we shall have rain

it's still freekishly warm here
but it suppose to start dropping to january temps soon
i will be lighting the woodstove again tonight
it's too warm for it to get a proper draft right now
also, it's too windy
cold and windy is ok
warm and windy...........nope not so good


in fiber news
i am putting thumbs on a pair of fast mittens that i knit just to make sure i have a pair

i must have 6 pairs of my mittens
but i lose them
or at least one of them
( well i do HAVE three little kittens......so the la perms could have done away with them)

i am going to actually put a STRING on these i think
and thread the damn thing through my coat!

these are knit in worsted cascade 220 quatro
in a blue and red
match my coats for the most part


now in thaddeaus peabody news
he ate some sort of strip of plastic and puked ALL over from the very top of the cat tree
gee thanks thaddeaus, projectile vomiting at 5 feet
and i didn't get you anything

i was telling him this morning that he was a very bad chicken
as i attempted to again get him OFF the ceiling
(if 90 percent of the cat is on the ceiling............. i do'nt CARE if his feet are on a shelf.....said cat is to be considered ON THE CEILING...... period)

he spend yesterday which was almost 70 degrees.....hiding under the goosedown quilt

that's my son

he's intrepid to say the least.....
the very least

absolutely the least

oh man

meanwhile i am spinning my tunis up
every day i spin some
i have almost a 4 oz bobbin of the chocolate covered cherry roving

( i was aiming for burgundy.....i missed)
it's a laceweight single so plied should be fingering
i will guestimate maybe 300 yards?
i could be WAY off.....you all KNOW how bad i am with math

i plan on skeining it
setting the twist
and balling it to ply it

unless someone has a better idea??????

PLEASE someone have a better idea?

when that is done i have the cherry red to spin


then i will dye the blue, yellow, green, orange and purple

THEN it is on to latvian mittens
(which of course by that time will be SUMMER, and who the hell feels like knitting wool in summer???)

i am waiting for that moraccan days/arabian nights stole pattern to become available
i love the pictures of it so far
and i love the beading
so i am going to be knitting that
i may even follow the actual pattern in the sample YARN!

meanwhile i am going to start some other lace while weighting
probably just a sampler out of the patterns in the barbara walker treasureys

i mean
i have to knit lace

you know?

well maybe you don't but i have a real NEED HERE

til next time

vi