Oh no, a new hobby

Some people are amazing, crazy amazing. On tuesday I found a note from the post office in my mailbox notifying me that I had a package. Package? What package? I’m not expecting any package, thought I. Of course I ran over there immediately to get it, but as I was on my way to the weaving course I brought it along and fought the urge to open it while in the metro. When I arrived at the course location there was no one there and I remembered that we had decided to have it on wednesday this week because of a premiere that the teacher had to attend. So I went back home with my package, opened it and became speechless. Wouldn’t you?

This time the wonderful Cassie managed to surprise me in a most pleasant way. We’ve been sending stuff back and forth for some time now, I buy Icelandic wool and books for her, and she buys American wool and books for me. It’s a very handy thing. One time, I sort of surprised her with a package of Icelandic wool but this time she outdid me by far. I surely didn’t expect this and well, I have few words to describe how happy she made me.

Spinning has been in the back of my mind for some time, but I thought I’d wait a while since I have quite enough hobbies and I haven’t seen the tools around. Now there’s nothing to stop me. I tried it out a bit after having read the “quick start” guide and oh dear, what a sad piece of string I made. You can see it there on the spindle, all lumpy and overspun. That’s where the book comes in, I hope I’ll do a little better after reading it. I’ve got to, I have all these ideas now for yarn to spin.

In other news I knitted socks, teeny tiny little infant socks. My supervisor is having a baby any week now.

The pattern for these is in Knitting Vintage Socks by Nancy Bush and I can totally recommend it. They’re simple, quick and painless, easy to drag around. All you could ever wish for when nothing else is doing it for you. I think these are gonna be my standard gift for newborns. Oh yeah. Go make babies!