Eventually it’s for these…
Six little chickens… I only ordered five, but they sent six. I’m not complaining!
Two White Cochins:
Four Silver Laced Wyandottes:
They are two days old. Whether or not they’ll all make it is still up in the air… and if the extra is a rooster then he’ll have to find a new home (and no I won’t sell him for a stew pot). I only ordered pullets (hens) as roosters aren’t allowed in my town/city/suburb because of noise ordinances.
They’re actually quite nice and cuddly little things… D and I are working on socializing them young so that they’ll be accepting of humans throughout their lifespans. However, Scholar is Not Amused that Mama won’t let her go play with the new “toys”.
I just haven’t gotten around to posting recently. I’ve been sidetracked by such things as this:
And maybe this:
Don’t worry, there will be yarn pictures forthcoming. I did manage to make a spinning night and plied one of the 4 oz singles of Eire into a 4 oz two ply, and plied the rest the next night.
On the job front: So far I like my job (knock on wood). I work with two other legal claims analysts and 7 lawyers. The lawyers are actually really nice people contrary to most popular opinions.
On that note, I think I’m going to go pass out. I get up waaaaaayyyyy too early for work.
This weekend was pretty full. I’ll upload pictures later.
Saturday I relaxed for half the day, then wandered around the lumber store and picked up boards for a veggie garden thing. Dropped the boards off at home, then accompanied J over to the bike rally (Thunder Run IV, largest bike rally in OK). There were some awesome bikes there and I thought it was great that so many charities were represented (Downed Bikers Association, Bikers Against Child Abuse, MS recycling bins for aluminum cans, etc). Everybody was very nice.
Sunday morning Dad came over and helped me build the veggie bed. I needed some help with the assembly because I don’t have big enough hands to hold the sides together while screwing in the stud hangers, but I don’t have a set of clamps either. It’s just basically a big rectangular box. J is going to take his truck by the garden place and pick up the compost, manure, and peat for the dirt mix… since he’s got a bigger truck, he should be able to haul all the bags.
I started a bunch of veggies in the greenhouse seedling starter, D is going to start some marigolds tonight for the front porch side flowerbed as well. She got the seeds from one of the ladies at Dad’s church. She’s so excited that she gets to start flowers!
Ok, that’s enough… gotta start the truck and get a move on.
That’s really all I have to say. I’m a bit sleep deprived as it is 5 am, but ah well. I’ll get into the swing of this soon.
Just a couple sidenotes… I’ve been doing some sewing, which is kinda funny considering Stacey over at the Purling Dervish mentioned that she is wrestling with fabric too yesterday (or was it the day before?).
Here’s the generic view of what I’m working on: Butterick 4790, which is the reprint of the famous Butterick “Walk Away dress”. I’m working on a muslin of it because of potential issues with the fit in the bust and shoulders.
On a random note, I want to make this particular Vogue pattern one of these days, after I hit the sales at Hancocks and pick up the pattern. I don’t spend more than a $1 for Butterick and McCalls patterns at Hancocks during a sale, and no more than $5 on a Vogue. One this one, I like the sleeved version, although I do admit that I’d alter the neckline.
Here is my daily “WTF?” post. What in the hells was this designer thinking? Or is it just me and these aren’t hideously ugly? I almost gagged when I saw this pattern pic:
I’m wondering if it’s safe to assume that the designer was indulging in some substances that they shouldn’t have ingested. 
Ok, gotta finish getting ready for work and book it out of here… have a good day peoples 
Everything (except my one remaining college class and the child) is on a back burner for a bit… after 10 months of unemployment because the job market here sucks, I started a new job yesterday. First day went ok, here’s to hoping that the rest follow it. I’ve got to get back into the habit of getting stuff done with a day job.
While there is spinning going on as evidenced by this:
I’m still kinda sidetracked by a few things. One would be this kitty following me around wanting me to either play fetch with him or pet him:
Rhodes is a dog in a catsuit, at least in my opinion. Right now he’s trying to convince me to take a nap but I’m holding out.
Then there’s this:
You see, I’ve always been fascinated by Jacqueline Kennedy. These three books relate to her style of dress and clothing (two separate things, don’t get confused) as the First Lady. Jacqueline Kennedy epitomizes elegance and class. Hell, she had more of both in her pinky finger than I have in my entire body. However, I delude myself into thinking that I would love to have some of the same dress and carriage that she had throughout her lifetime. I found these books through ILL (inter-library loan) and am going to add them to my list of “must have books” even though it will be a while before I can buy any books. They are, from left to right, Jackie Style, A Thousand Days of Magic, and Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years. The second book was written by Oleg Cassini, who was her ONLY designer during that timeframe and good gods I’d love to pick his brain. *sigh*
Ok. Enough gushing over clothes. I need to take some heavy duty allergy meds and work on the Emotional Rescue batt. Seems that I am allergic to a perfume or scent in the batt (it was stored next to soaps and herbs) and every time I spin on it, I sneeze. Horribly. I have to wash my hands right afterwards so I don’t forget and touch my face otherwise my eyes swell up and start to water. I know it’s not a fiber IN the batt because I’m not allergic to any of them. However, when I smell it (and it does smell GREAT), I start to sneeze. I see a pattern here.
On the knitting front, I’ve knit probably two rounds on a sock in the past week or so. Why? Just not motivated. Spring has sprung and my spring apparently doesn’t include a pair of knitting needles. Instead I’ve been spinning.
All 8 oz of Eire is on two bobbins in singles form, waiting to be wound into center pull balls and plied. I don’t ply two bobbins together… if it doesn’t match up almost perfectly even I get pissy about waste and I hate to spin together little bits and bobs of bobbins. That just drives me nutz. Therefore, plying from a center pull is the way to keep the sanity level even at Chez Faerie.
Since the singles are resting for a few days before I ply them, I pulled out the Emotional Rescue batt from Copperpot and separated the batt into strips for spinning. I figure that’s next, between reading a chapter in sociology, taking a test on it, and writing a paper about feminism, what I think about it and how it affects me according to the sociological perspective. Btw, I took that mid-term a couple days ago… took me a little over 35 minutes to answer 85 multiple choice questions and an essay question. Either I did very well or a fucking bombed it. I’m leaning towards bombed.
I’ve been having this weird issue with insomnia. While I don’t feel stressed out, apparently my brain is working some weird kind of overdrive. I don’t go to bed until I’ve tired anyway, so it’s not because of lack of tiredness. However. I’ve been staring at the ceiling up to 2 hours at a pop before I either fall asleep or give up (and get up). It is frustrating to the extreme and is starting to wear on my nerves. I know I need the sleep. I just can’t get it and refuse to drug myself with some over the counter sleeping aid (which is just generic Benadryl in most cases anyway) in order to get a couple hours of restive sleep which leaves me feeling worse than if I just sucked it up and got out of bed.
Ah well. Maybe it’ll work it’s way out soon.
It seems like I’ve devolved into only WIP Wednesday posts. I need to remedy that.
Finished: The Bloody Truth batt (the Batt from Hell), and Poison roving (the links direct you to the stores that they were originally purchased from, even though I bought Poison from a person destashing on Ravelry).
Specs, both are around 4 oz. The Bloody Truth is alpaca/bamboo/firestar, Poison is 50/50 merino/soysilk. Neither blend is one that I will spin again for other reasons… the bamboo/alpaca stuck like fucking velcro, and the soysilk bled like a stuck pig (though it thankfully didn’t bleed ONTO the other color[s] nor did it significantly lighten the shade). Soysilk has this propensity, I in *no way shape or form* blame the dyer. By the way… Poison is NOT that light. The pic is overexposed… hopefully I can remedy that tomorrow if there’s decent sunlight.
Currently on the wheel is Eire corriedale pencil roving from Crown Mountain Farms.
Feather and Fan Fingerless Gloves, pattern written by the lovely KnitSteph, first glove progress pic (I’ve actually cast off this one and cast on the second). Yarn is Sundara Silky Merino Aran in Bittersweet, on U.S. size 7s. See, I do use my birthday yarn! (ignore the fact that I’ve had this stashed for a few birthdays… lol)
Spinning progress… the Bloody Truth batt (otherwise known as the Spinning Batt From Hell).
California Red fleece, washed, dyed and carded into batts by me. Of course, the washing and dyeing was done last year (early last year!) but the carding was more recent. It is because of this set of fiber that I’ve decided that I’m going to have to save save save and buy a motorized carder. I almost blew out my shoulder again cranking the handle on the carder, even though the feed was slow and even. No, I didn’t overload the feed tray.
Here’s how it looks carded into a large batt, and separated down into smaller spinning “muffins”:
