so busy!

So on saturday I went to my first guild meeting. It was awesome. I love being around other fibre-y peeps... regardless of the sea of grey hair and glasses on neckchains. I don't care that i was the youngest person there by 20 years... it was FUN. The meeting was followed by a 30 minute origami workshop by one of the guild members. I've never done origami before so that was pretty interesting. I stayed afterward and looked at the guild library for 2 hours... TWO HOURS of browsing past issues of handwoven, spinoff, weaving, spinning and dying books. I took out a couple issues of handwoven from like 1960 and a weaving draft book which was also pretty vintage looking. But herringbone twill never changes... so i guess that makes sense.



I finished another Endpaper mitt. This one is the first of a pair.. I'm not usually a purple person, but I like how they ended up. I can't express enough how much I LOVE the tubular cast on and cast off. They make such nice edges and are good and stretchy.

tubular cast off:


tubular cast on:


I love latvian braids too. So easy, and they make a great addition to a cuff or rim of a hat:



I then spun wool all night long after raking some leaves. I'm ready to ply to bobbins of superwash bfl together. I think then I'll knit a scarf with it, and immerse-dye the final product so I can get a gradation of dark to light.



I spent sunday grocery shopping, baking, more baking, and spinning some samples of the fibre i had dyed at Pat Leclair's workshop I did last may in alliston. I don't have enough of any of the samples to spin on my wheel.. they wouldn't fill even a quarter of a bobbin, so I'll spin all of those up as singles on my cascade spindle to use later in novelty yarns or some other project.
One day i would love a golding spindle.



It was a good weekend though, and I spent most of it myself except for sunday night which involved the new super mario for the wii... which.. was *&#%-ing amazing. Plays just like super mario 3 old skool. So awesome. I always thought the wii was shitty, but this game makes it worth it's while.