To spin or not to spin...

I have never really been interested in spinning my own yarn. I don't know what came over me a few days ago but I was looking at knitpicks and one of their pics was of a niddy noddy and a Turkish spindle. I have always dismissed even the thought of spinning because a spinning wheel is so expensive and while I taught my self to knit with out having anyone show me I really don't think that it is okay to buy such an expensive tool with out the possibility of classes or a mentor or something like that. I also never knew what a spindle was or what you did with one. But that knitpicks ad peeked my interest. I decided to check You Tube for videos and all of the sudden I had an overwhelming desire to spin yarn on a drop spindle. I wanted to do it and I wanted to do it now. I knew I had some extremely cheap roving that really should only be used for needle felting, but would do in a pinch. I just didn't have a spindle. A little You Tube research fixed that problem. I found this video for a now cost spindle and I was all set to make some really bad yarn. My second attempt was much better and now I have some pretty thick singles that I would never want to knit with, but I freaking made them my self. So awesome. Part of me knows that this desire to start a new hobby is due in great part to the fact that I am kind of on a yarn diet and I am not allowing myself to start anything new until my current UFOs are completed. Part of me knows that this is still startitis and that even though I am not starting a knitted project I am still starting something that I don't have money and time for (for the next few months). Part of me knows all of this, but most of me doesn't care. I am, however, resisting the urge to invest a bunch of money right now. Next month, maybe. Maybe after Christmas.

In other knitting news, the books and more swap is coming to an end. My partner got her package from me and I think she liked it. I felt really good about it, because I love, love, loved the yarn I sent her and the book is one of my faves. I also felt like the school supplies that fulfilled the "back to school" theme doubled as knitting supplies. I would have loved to get that package so I felt pretty good about sending it. I haven't gotten mine yet from my swap partner, but almost everyone has sent theirs out so it should come soon. I just wish I had had been interested in spinning before I did the swap so that maybe I could have gotten a spinning book or some roving. C'est la vie.

In non knitting news, this was a pretty great past week. Wednesday started out not so great. I got some very bad news about a friend that I care very much about who was hurt by someone she trusted. The news really over shadowed my little boys birthday for a little while. We had to set that aside for a while and I am so happy to say that my friend has done the right thing for herself and I feel like it is the first step in the healing process for her. I did get great news, though, on my lab and lecture tests. A's on both and I was really sweating it. Disneyland was great. I feel so lucky that James and Brionna and I are friends and that we all go to be there for Ben's first Disneyland trip. It was so special to me and I can't thank them enough for including me.

Saturday is Ben's birthday party and the festivities will be over. I am so in love with my little boy. He seems so much older than 4 years old, but at the same time I can't believe it has been 4 years already. What a wonderful person I have the privilege of raising. How lucky I am to have a front row seat to his life. He is very special. Love you son.