Flotsjam

Sorry for the absence; I was kinda quiet last week and just spent my time catching up with blogs and other stuff in my life. Mostly I worked on my Mendocino cardigan and did some spinning. I spun up the brown romney that I'd combed a while ago. I made 2-ply and 3-ply yarns. These came out nicely. With the way I spin, the 2-ply version is going to be good for lace knitting, while the 3-ply would lead itself well for worsted knitting.

Now here are the samples that I knit up.

The one on the left is 3ply, knit with 4mm needles, and the one on the right is 3ply, knit with 3.5mm needles. Even though these look the same, the 4mm version is more drapey, which I very much like. These also have a bit of a stretch lengthwise, which will work out really good for blocking.

This one here is 2ply, knit with 4mm needles, I think. I forgot to mark it down but I don't think it really matters since the gauge may come out very close for 3.5mm needles. I'm really looking forward to picking out a nice lace pattern for this.

I've been spending time with my nephew Kai, and it's really interesting to watch him grow up. He's not yet 6 months old and already he has two bottom teeth. We thought the reason he was fussy was because his gums were bothering him, and it turns out that he was teething. Sister says she isn't ready for him to have teeth. And he's a very smart boy . . . they read to him every night. He may not quite understand the stories being read to him yet, but he sure knows what a book is. And he has lots of energy - loves to thump the floor with his feet when he is lying on his back. I'm going to have to get in shape so that I won't run out of breath chasing him around.

Soon it'll be baseball season. Now, I've never been a baseball fan, but now that we've got a team right here in good ol' DC and a design for the stadium has been selected, I guess I'd better step up to the plate. It's truly a shame, that thanks to the Baltimore Orioles team owner Peter Angelos' greed, we won't be seeing too many games locally on the Comcast cable network. You see, he wanted compensation for having a baseball team so close to Baltimore, so he was allowed to set up a network that would sell access to the Nationals' televised games. Comcast Network is balking at the price being asked for as being unreasonably high. Meanwhile, us budding Nationals fans are fuming and telling them to get on with it.