People are nice!

Five years ago or so, I came up with a design for a coat rack.  When I was in NYC in 2005, I went to Anthropologie and started buying parts for it.  By “parts” I mean little antique-looking door knobs that I was planning to used instead of hooks. 

I have since been looking for a coat rack that I can use.  They’re not cheap!

A few months ago, Karen from my knitting circle shows up on knit-night and presents me with a blank coat rack that she had her husband build for me.  Since that time, I’ve ordered more knobs and on Saturday, Karen and Norm came over and he put my little knobs on. 

They did this for me out of the goodness of their hearts.

I made lots of baby hats last week.

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I might put some flowers on the girlie ones.

Then yesterday, I went and picked up Glenda’s wheel at Diane M’s.  Glenda’s on holidays for 7 weeks and let me borrow her wheel out of the goodness of her heart.  How nice!

I spun a whole bobbin when I got home.  My whole body hurt when I finally got up but, I’m pretty proud of myself.  I don’t think I can call myself a spinner yet – I sure am working on it though!

Check out how even it is!  Wool is easy to spin.  While I was at her place, Diane gave me some alpaca and then some mohair and they sucked.  I’ll stick to wool for now until I’m good at that.  When I’m ready, I’ll graduate to a longer fibre.

I’m on nights for the next two weeks.  I don’t mind so much because I have a few hours during the day to myself to do whatever.  I can knit, spin, read, clean, do laundry, make phone calls, maybe hit the gym, etc.

I HAVE NO PROJECT.  I’ll wind up my Rockin’ Sock Club skein today and start on that.  I know I said I would start on it last week but, I just never got around to it. 

I want to make something big!  I think I’ll take out my Americo and make one of the Drops jackets.

Off to clean the house and do some laundry.