Call Me Kate the Great

With mom away I get to run the house. This morning by 10AM, I had planned the menu for the week, sorted all the laundry, tidied up the freezer, and was at the grocery store (note to self – it opens at 8AM could have saved time if I’d known that).
By 1ish… I had:
*done the [...]

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There is too much, let me sum up

1. Spent last week (last Saturday to today) at a cottage up in the Muskokas.  The cottage was lovely, the lake was lovely, but I am so incredibly not a lake person.  Give me a swimming pool (heated) (not to mention my internet address- I will never catch up) and keep the bugs.  I did, [...]

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300 yards

I’ve finished spinning and plying the purple! 

Specs:
2ply
laceweigh-c.30 wpi
approx. 300yds (yeah, figured out how to work the niddy noddy)
merino

I bet the zoom in really close feature is turned off… I’ll have to check that next time…
I’m now trying to figure out if I can get a shawl out of this, or if I need to find [...]

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Oh. My. Gosh. SQUEE!!

Look! Look! Look! Look!

It’s so fine, the camera won’t focus!!
I made lace – not like before where my singles were lace (like this):

Lovely, but infuriatingly fingering weight when plied.
But really real lace, lace where when I ply it it will absolutely be lace, not light fingering, but lace lace!! YEAH!!!!

I bought 50g of custom blended [...]

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