I did nothing yesterday. No knitting, whatsoever. I did spend a lot of time surfing the net. I indulged myself. Do you want to know what I was looking at? Well…..

Here’s a link, and here’s another. Yup, rabbits and spinning wheels. Let me tell you how productive I felt at the end of the day. Right.

So I’m browsing through the many books I purchased at the warehouse sale on Friday, and I see this cute picture in Beyond Wool.

The reason this stands out to me at this time is because thanks to Stephanie and her schnazzy thrummed mittens, I’ve been handling beautiful, soft roving for days on end. It’s been seducing me. I’ve been thinking about spinning again. I know that in a recent post, I poked fun at my brief bout with spinning, but that was before I spent several days THRUMMING MITTENS and handling the stuff. It beckons.

So I’m reading about cute and fluffy house bunnies, and I think, “ooh, I could grow my own fiber without even violating my neighborhood’s zoning laws. Cool.” Keep in mind that I don’t own a spinning wheel, and have only ever handled one for a few days, over a year ago. Also note that when I gave it back, I had no intention of ever touching one again.

Surprisingly, Nate was supportive. (I tell you, he’s amazing. I even told him I wanted multiple bunnies). However, he has conditions. If the bunnies come, the dog goes. Hardly fair, I know. (I won’t go into it now, because it would take many, many paragraphs to adequately educate you, but trust me when I say that my sweet husband is completely justified in wanting to be rid of the dog. My trainer’s fiance has even said that he wouldn’t have kept at it this long).

Towards the end of the day, I came to my senses and realized that before purchasing and housing fiber-makers, I should further investigate whether or not I would really enjoy spinning. If anyone has leads or helpful info on spinning wheels….. Ok, enough of that.

Want to see what else I’m dreaming about? This one is in Irresistible Knits.

I don’t know why. It isn’t my style. I have never worn anything like it.

I love it.

I’m thinking a deep, mossy green would be lovely. In case you can’t tell, it is a jacket/cardigan over a separate ribbed, mock turtleneck. I would definitely need to be thin. That is note going to be a slimming sweater by any stretch, and it’ll take 10 years to knit one big enough to go around me, but I like it, and I can fantasize.

I hope to make much progress on mom’s sweater today. I also hope to ignore the computer, exercise, lift weights, cook, de-bone and then stew a chicken, do laundry, feed and interact with the children, wash 30 or so buckets, prepare material for a class I’m teaching on Thursday, make a myriad of phone calls, clean clean clean…… am I forgetting anything? Oh yeah, and I want to spin.

First of all, I finished the mittens over the weekend. I like them much more than I thought I was going to.

My mom doesn’t want them. My sister has neither commented on the blog, answered her phone, neither does she have an answering machine. So I don’t know WHAT is going to happen to the mittens. I won’t mind if they stick around for awhile. I have the materials to make another pair, but making the exact same thing twice really bores me. It’s remarkable enough that I made the second mitten, or when I make a second sock in a pair.

I’m back on mom’s sweater. The next row is where I put the neck stitches on a holder and divide the shoulders. I’m looking forward to finishing this one.

Saturday, I’m going yarn shopping with my sister-in-law, Mari. She wants a poncho before moving to Virginia next month, so there will be a new project soon, and it’ll be wool!

And finally, I totally scored on Friday. Martingale & Company had a two day warehouse sale where all books were $3. They mostly publish quilting books, but they had a knitting section, and I came away with fourteen books! $450 in knitting books for about $40. I’m stoked. Three of them I had seen in stores and knew I wanted. Three more I had never seen, but would have bought if I had. The remaining eight I wouldn’t have paid full price for, but each of them have one to three patterns I like, and are therefore well worth the $3 I paid. I’d say it was a great weekend!

I couldn’t access my site earlier for some reason, and now I have to get ready for Physical Therapy, BUT, I have some finished mittens and other things to post about. So I’ll be back in a couple hours with a real post. See you then!