the Akamai Knitter

The love affair with my new Suzie has been continuing as I’ve been plying like a mad woman. I have finished plying the last of the Poiple Stuff. I started spinning this back in August so it’s past time that I’ve finished.

And a close-up.

I brushed up on plying techniques with the book Hands On Spinning by Lee Raven. I discovered I was using one of the worst techniques possible to ply so I quickly studied up to try and correct the situation. I think the reason I had never learned another way was because I learned from a center pull ball instead of from bobbins, and it’s easier to hold the two different strands in your separate hands to control the ball. Plying from bobbins is so much easier though.

Once the Poiple Stuff was done, I decided to ply the rest of the Jenny Blue.

I noticed a difference in the quality of the singled I spun from the Schacht and the Suzie. The singles I spun from the Suzie were of a much better quality then the Schacht. The singles from the Schacht were often underspun much to my dismay.

After all this plying, I wasn’t done with the spinning. I decided to break into my stash and start spinning some of this Colonial wool.

Hopefully I’ll be able to get a good picture of this stuff on the bobbin for soon. The pictures I did manage to take somehow made the wool come out an electric blue and that just ain’t right. The poor lighting in my living room constantly makes picture taking a challenge and I don’t fancy towing the Suzie out of the room just for a photo shoot. There are times to draw the line at the crazy things I will do for bloggin’ and that is one of the times. What if the poor Suzie got hurt?!

While I’ve been doing all this spinning and plying, I’ve been listening to Cast On and I now have a schoolgirl crush on Brenda Dayne. That woman’s voice just lulls me into a state of hypnotic state of love and peace. I swear if she asked me to do mad insane things for her in that lovely voice of hers I’d probably say, “Yes, Brenda, anything for you Brenda. Hop on one foot nekkid? Yes, Brenda.”

Then of course there’s the hilarious duo Lime & Violet to also keep me company. I’m a newbie to their show though and I’m still catching up. I have heard though, that the effervescent Violet has a medical fund set up and you can read a little bit more about it here. I wish her all the luck in the world and I’d like to remind all the ladies to get regular breast exams done and if you’re over 40 get those mammograms done too. Okay! I’m stepping off my soap box!
Thanks for listening. Now I’m going to go and dream of podcasting with Wendy M. through some nifty technological wonder gadget that I probably cannot afford.