Long legs in stride. Pounding as they run. A graceful run at that. Like a gazelle. More of a loping than a run or a jog. Gorgeous even strides loping out the miles all graceful and shit…..

Lovely fantasy about how I run. When I get on my treadmill lately I’m doing it to run jog plod. Yes, Plod. As I’m running I have this unnatural vision of myself as the gorgeous graceful creature I described in the first few sentences. Then I trip, catch a glimpse of myself in the window….something brings me back to the reality of my stubby little legs mercilessly pounding out the miles on the treadmill.

The point is though, I am pounding out the miles. I’m doing it!
I had this crazy idea years ago that I wanted to do a Marathon. Another kid happened and I had stopped running all together. 2 kids and a business to run? Time to train? ha!

Wait, other people do it. Why can’t I?

Now I’m not expecting to run a full marathon anytime soon or to even win it when I do get there. I fully expect to be plodding along as normal and just cross the finish line of a half marathon or a small local race.

Why?

Just to prove to ME that I can do it.

I had a party at the shop this past weekend.
See:

With Cake!:

It was a lovely party and I want to thank everyone that came and helped me make the day special. You all rock!

Unfortunately this week I’m not spending much time spinning. I’m failing in the TdF. In fact I should probably pull out at this point. I’m working like mad to get an update done, club, and then I have a deadline knitting project. All of this is what I’ve been working on instead of doing the spinning I really want to do. Hopefully I’ll have something good to show you soon.

Its certainly a big factor in my desire lately to hibernate. That pool is unused, though the puddles in front of it seem almost as deep. The garden is sad. The green you see are the weeds. Most all of my seeds have washed away. I’m hoping that once the soil is no longer a big muddy puddle then I can replant some.

On to the Tour de Fleece:

Here’s my bucket of fibery stuff. It’s not the only one though. There are notes over at Flickr. The stuff that isn’t shown is the last of the Oatmeal BFL I’m spinning, The Orange for the Tara Shawl, and the other Orange for the Cece Sweater.

I did ply some yarn. There were bobbins that weren’t shown in the bobbin bucket. I’m sneaky like that.

The multicolor is some Hello Yarn BFL in her colroway “undertow”.
The Green is part of a Fair Isle Shetland Sweater project. I have all the dyed colors done for it. I just need to do 4 ounces of white and 8 of Black. I’ll have plenty left over after this project is done but I’m ok with that. Better to have too much than too little.

This is June’s club

Selfish on Shetland as a fractal spun 2 ply.

I’m plugging away. I will hopefully get lots finished this month.

I’m playing along once again. My goal this time is to clean up projects. I have several sweaters in the making and I need to really get some done so I don’t have so much wool in the living room. I’m not usually opposed to have a ton of wool everywhere but it would be nice to have a neater space. Since I’ve been getting on everyone else’s case about keeping picked up, I suppose I need to follow suit.

I’m working at finishing some of the smaller projects as well. Of which this was one:

Batts made from Ester (a Cormo Romney Sheep) and Silk. This particular one has a fair amount of sparkle too. Still no plans for it. It turned out a bit too blue for me but I think I know of someone that might need some blue sparkly mittens.

This is the current bobbin box:

I’ve made notes over at Flickr for the curious. It’s just about time I should be plying.

When knitting I’ve been usually working on this:

It’s a sweater made from a 3 ply BFL handspun. It’s the oatmeal BFL and it’s so nice. I’ve dyed so many lots of BFL for sweaters yet this is the first lot I’ve kept for me (and it’s not even dyed). This is going to be one sweater I know I’m going to love simply because the fiber is so glorious.