Today was an off day for my body. So all I accomplished was shopping for dinner, very early with an N95K mask, 3 loads of laundry, listing a few knitting/ Crocheting books on eBay, working on the endless scarf and I Cubii2 workout. I spent most of the day resting.
Since it was a bad body day I skipped cleaning the guest room and any unnecessary work.
Today I had a system for cleaning up craft room 1 aka the guest room. I started out with one bag for trash.. one bag for recycling..lastly one box for charity. I spent 1 1/2 hours going through everything that I swore I would never touch again. I had everything in boxes to be ignored forever, I don’t think my family agreed with my plan of moving the boxes out of the way with out going through them. So I meticulously went through everything bit by bit. I threw out projects that were never ever going to be repaired. I put beads in their places. I cleaned off resting places for things that I had just not put away. I put all my broken stitch markers in a box to be repaired. I stacked boxes for future delivery. I worked until I was too tired to move. Most importantly I managed to empty one box. That box will help organize my knitting projects stacked on shelves, so they don’t fall as often I have one more box that I hope to finish tomorrow. At least with that part. The whole process should take about a week to finish. I might even try to get a bit of sewing done before I need to set up the guest room.
At the same time I was washing the last 3 skeins of yarn from Spin Together 2021. Once they are mostly dry and can be moved into the house for the final drying, I will take a picture of all the skeins. Some colors did change drastically, others were about the same. Then I will play with the order of colors to make my next shawl. I might even spin a few more skeins to get the colors just right.
I even had time to add 6 inches to the never ending scarf..
I usually count my yarn and batts by the quart or gallon. I know most people count by skeins, ounces of roving or yards. So for last week’s spinning for Spin Together 2021 I emptied 2 , 12 quart sweater boxes of hand carded batts. Since I spun 12 skeins of yarn that works out to an average of 6 skeins per box. Of course as you have seen from the pictures, the skeins were spun with 1, 2 or 3 batts. That’s the great thing about art batts, no 2 are alike. Some can be singles while with others just more go together.
Don’t worry about the empty boxes. They will be filled up again by tomorrow night. I am in the process of cleaning craft room number 1. My crafts are currently divided between 2 rooms. I have it on the best Authority that craft room number 1 aka the guest room might just have some guests. So I do need to finish my top to bottom cleaning of the room. I got off to a great start today. Just so we are clear craft room number 2 is shared with our pantry. At least I have all the snacks when I am working in craft room 2.
I also learned today that my body no longer likes kale. So my go to vegetables are carrots, celery, salads, squash, sweet potatoes, daikon radish, soy beans, Lima beans, lentils, Garbanzo beans, beans in general, radishes, yams, corn, peas and seaweed. Yes I now count seaweed as a vegetable. It goes great on tofu.
Below are my empty storage boxes. I was going to stack them the other way but the kept on sliding.
I woke up feeling great.
Which lead to a lot of chores getting done.
Which lead to over 10,000 steps.
Which lead to a total fat burn workout on my Cubii2. That was 30 minutes.
Which lead to 2 out of 5 knitting work in progress projects getting finished tonight.
All in all a good day.
Now for another goodnights sleep.
Which will lead to another almost pain free busy day tomorrow.
At the end of day 6 of Spin Together 2021 I have spun 12 skeins of mostly art yarn for a total of 2,184 contest yards or 1.24090909 miles. Not a bad week of spinning. I did not over do. I included plenty of rest time. The first picture is of the last 5 skeins. They are smaller because they were spun with one art batt each.
These are the last 2 skeins of day 5 of Spin Together 2021. With a total contest yardage of 480 yards. I like the colors of Bees the best. Bees is the yellow green and light blue color way. This. brings my contest totals up to 1,578 yards. Since a mile is 1,760 yards I just might have a chance at spinning a mile of yarn this week. No wonder my calf muscles are protesting.
Sorry for the second post you know is coming tonight.
As you can tell from the picture below I spent the afternoon spinning mini batts. I managed to spin 5 mini batts today. With the 3 batts from yesterday that is 8 spun in 2 days, waiting to be plyed. These are 4 ounce bobbins and I managed to get 6 ounces on the front left bobbin. I will try to get them all plyed and skeined after dinner. Usually plying goes fast for me. I would have spun more but ran out of bobbins for my woolly winder.
