it's been a strange little week...

...getting sick didn't help. While my body recovered pretty quickly, my mind didn't. It wasn't until Thursday that I really felt that my brain was fully functional.

I have managed to get a little knitting done. But remind me never to have 4 pairs of socks on the needles again, will ya? Because I am so bored with heel flaps, heel turns, and gussets...and only two of the four pairs are that far along! Ugh!

It''s good that I have to gear up for Tour de Fleece 2009. I can put the knitting aside for a while and spin my heart out! I need to finish up a few yarns and try and make a dent in my stash. Here's one of the things I want to finish spinning: Apricot Cinder Merino-silk from Yarn Wench. I started this at the Spin-In last weekend.

My Tour de Fleece goal is to spin weft yarns that I can use in my weaving. I want to try to spin some warp yarns as well, but I have very few bumps of fiber that are more than 4oz. The most I've ever spun from 4 oz. is 440 yards of a 2-ply Wensleydale. I generally do 3-ply yarns and get between 250 - 330 yards. While that might be enough to warp for a scarf, I don't need that many scarves! I need to stash-dive and see whether I have any bumps bigger than 4 oz.

Up this weekend: clean house a bit and run the errands I didn't get to last weekend. I want to go through the stash and figure out what I'm spinning for Tour de Fleece. And then concentrate on trying to finish at least one of my WIPs!