After nearly a year of sort of trying to spin and thinking how very hard it was, I bought some new roving. Grey Romney, not the softest stuff in the world, but I’m loving it. Its so very easy to draft, and all the time I though I was such a horrible spinner, it was just that I had bad roving. I have about an ounce of it spun into a very even yarn, and once I get a bit more finished, I’m thinking about plying it together. :)
Perfidy's Life List
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1. Go to England
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2. Learn to juggle
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3. finish my knitting projects
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4. improve my handwriting
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5. Donate blood
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6. Compare myself to no one, but who I was yesterday
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7. be outside
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8. climb a tree
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9. knit a pair of socks
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10. get my passport
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11. memorize Romans
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12. Visit a monastery
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13. learn braille
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14. walk more
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15. go from vegetarian to vegan
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16. learn to drive
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17. Become a Big Sister/Mentor
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18. identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
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19. make a smaller ecological footprint
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20. drink more water
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21. write anonymous, loving post-its for strangers to find
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22. find out what my blood type is
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23. lose the weight i need to lose and keep it off
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24. recycle
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25. get rid of unnecessary possessions
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26. LEARN TO PLAY THE TIN WHISTLE
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27. write thank you cards
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I’ve had a spindle and a beautiful blue roving in my closet for well over a year now. After about 20 minutes of fuzzy blue failure, I decided that spinning wasn’t really my thing anyways and put it away until I hopefully forgot how awful I was at it. Well the time has now come. In accordance with my goal of getting rid of anything I’m not using, I’ve decided to try spinning again. Of course, you couldn’t expect me to discard something with the potential to be knitted, even if I have absolutely no use for it. So I’ll give it another try. Wish me luck!
I finally got a slate and stylus. The reading wasn’t doing too well since I’m too lazy to look up the contractions I don’t remember. : ) So I figure if I make it more interactive and start writing braille it might be easier to learn. The slate I got was the size of a 4×6 card and cost about $7 including a stylus. Its really worth it. I’m going to take it to some classes and try to braille some of my notes.
