Drop spindle

Well, wanted to take the plunge and try some spinning. I actually found out about Spinsanity when reading a post on Knitty I can't remember who made the post and I am too lazy to go look right now, but she was a new spinner and had bought her spindle from Spinsanity so I went and checked it out. They looked very cool and I bought this one As my gaming handle for years has been Blackwidow, I thought hmmm.....I wonder if she could do a custom paint for me. I messaged her and she said she would give it a try. About a week has passed, maybe less and I just got a message from her that she put one up on her Etsy for me, but I was under no obligation to buy it. Man, when I saw that thing I couldn't pay for it fast enough. It is amazing! She did and awesome job. Here it is! The one beside it is beautiful too. The first spindle that I bought should arrive today, am excited to try spinning, but I am even more excited to get my hands on my spider spindle!

Shannon at Spinsanity was great to deal with. Once she found out I have never spun, she asked if I wanted some links to help me get started. She was kind enough to send me some links.

Edit: oh..was ms. pixieriot ....that's who said she had just bought a spindle from Spinsanity

Podcasts

Was perusing Knit Picks a couple of weeks ago I found a listing of Kelley Petkun's podcasts. I had never listened to a podcast before and thought that listening to someone talking about knitting might be cool, so I downloaded the last episode that was posted (#14) and gave it a listen. I did have somewhat of a preconceived idea of what it would sound like and I have to admit that I thought it might be kind of cheesy. I was pleasantly surprised, I really liked it. I then started at Episode 1 and downloaded them all to my MP3 player and listened to them on my trips back and forth to work. I did this over many days and once I was all caught up, I really missed listening to them. I thought that if there was this Podcast about knitting that there must be others, so I started a search. Eventually I found Cast On by Brenda Dayne. This was just last week, so when I saw the episode list I was amazed at how long she had been doing this. This time I started at the beginning and wow, she is amazing! At first I wasn't too sure if I liked having the music interspersed throughout the show, but the more episodes that I listened to and got to "know" Brenda a little better, I began to really appreciate the music. I just love this Podcast and the really great thing is that I have a ton of episodes to listen to and that is exactly what I have been doing. I am feeling a little guilty as all weekend I have not done a damn thing but listen to her Podcasts and knit. Has been great, but I must do some chores today! Am really having a hard time getting off my ass though.

I cast on a sock using Magic Loop with a toe up cast on. I have knit a couple of pairs of socks in the past but it has been a while and was feeling like I had forgotten what I had learned so have been knitting this sock since yesterday. I have just started the short row heal and have been following this tutorial. I had wanted to learn to do 2 socks on one circ. I did give it a try but decided that I really didn't like the pissiness of having yarn for 2 socks hanging around so I ripped it out and cast on for just 1 sock still following the same tutorial. Am having fun and it is going pretty well...so far.

Well, rather than continue typing I am going back to my sock and Brenda :D