I, Blog.

Or more appropriately I don't Blog.   Now the reason for this is not complete laziness on my part, (although I suppose I must admit to a least a little of that,) nor is it completely procrastination, although in way that's closer to the mark.  I am working on the blog, just not in a fashion that anyone but me can see.  I'm trying to find the program I'd prefer to blog on, as well as make a template for my blog that's unique to me and not just a standard theme from blog software.  However, this is all taking me a while to fiddle with different programs, and I've been telling myself why bother updating the blog when I'm just going to change it soon.  Of course using soon as a marker of time is relative to what one is doing, and it may be another month before I come to a decision on what blog, template, etc to use.  So instead, I'll just update the blog and import when the time comes.

So, here is what I'm currently doing. 

This is my wife's second spinning wheel, which we picked up in Portland for a great price.  She is kindly letting me use it until the wheel that I ordered comes in October.  Now I'm not particularly a spinner, I was quite happy to be just a knitter, and that's what I told everyone at the spinning group that my wife goes to.  I'd happily knit in a corner while everyone else spun, and while it looked fun, I have more than enough on my plate just knitting.  Then I learned about the Journey wheel, as well as some of the cool things that you can spin up that you just can't buy at the store, and I was hooked.  It will never be quite the passion that it is to my wife, but it is a nice diversion from knitting every now and then.

This is just a simple sock I'm working on, one of those projects that is straight and mindless stockinette, when I want to knit but don't want anything too complicated.  Done with Fly designs Nymph Hand painted Yarn.

Here we have a fingerless glove, in a checker board pattern, done with Shibui Knits Ink and Seaweed.

Look, Intarsia Spaghetti.

That's it for now, I've got several other projects I'm working on, but nothing that I can post at the moment.  With any luck, I'll have a newer and better blog up and running in a month or so, but I'll go ahead and try to update at least once a week until then.