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i started working on a shawl last night, unbeknownst to me. i woke up and there it was. i think it is a shawl, anyway. hm. maybe it was kahlo…

my parents will be in town friday evening from iowa, leaving saturday afternoon. my dad has patients to see, but i dunno how it is worth it for my mom to come along. we will lend them the vw, which jake just finally got back from being fixed, bless its poor heart. i found out that my friend who i don’t talk to anymore got into a car accident and all over again, my heart went out to her. and i started worrying about her. and wondering if she had full coverage on her car. like i am her mom. so i just asked a friend to tell her that i was thinking about her, rather than calling myself. i feel so weak. it is so hard. i miss her.

in other news, i was on a pittsburgh artist website and saw some artwork by a friend of mine that i hadn’t talked to in ages. it was kind of a strange situation and he just dropped out of my life, and i had seen him pretty much every week before that. we would go see cheap movies during the week and then go get pie. it was nice. anyway, i sent an email to the site and he emailed me today. i am really excited to see what he has been up to. i have really missed that character. and he is a character.

i don’t know if it is ethical to disclose your customers, but the author of a pretty famous blog bought some sock yarn from me, and i was so jazzed. i know yarn sales have been slow for everyone i know lately, but it still bums me out when i have a slow week. that sale really perked me up! thanks l! you rock! and tought my how to do short rows! woot!

otherwise, not too much. i plan to dye yarn and fiber to-morrow. after sending shannon fiber for felting for her new book…woot woot!…i researched wet felting a bit and found things you can do that incorporate all sorts of things and can be super thin and gauzy, so i am really eager to try it for a more fine art vibe. i am so excited to see her book. i am hoping to go visit the land of cleves and their snb and fancy spinsters soon…

so. strange day. tired and out of it. i have been having issues with my pain patches tearing the crap out of my skin. and they smell funny when i take them off. which is a new development. it burns. and itches. driving me crazy. it sounds like i have patch herpes. ew.

in super exciting news, my friend john and his adorable wife diana invited jake and i to come out next month probably. i don’t think jake can do it, because we go away for sheep and wool and then to hilton head with the parents, but i may go out for 5 days or a week. i am so excited! i vowed to have a detailed email to them every week, hopefully talk that often and diana did design for me, all my logos, etc, and cards, and for free! and she is a real designer. the real deal. so, i sent a bunch of yarn back with john last time he was in town, i will post photos of the things she made with it. amazing. really creative. and i sent her some of the muffy’s favorite beehives that we all know and love, and she made a baby hat that is so cute. it is self-striping yarn, and where the beehives are are all the same color, so that flat part is one color and the beehives are another, so it makes these raised stripes. it looks gorgeous. i need to knit wiht it more often. i sound like i am blowing my own horn, but i feel like i do with most creative things i do that it comes from somewhere else, not from me. otherworldly. anyway, she hadn’t used lots of handspun before and said that she felt like she had been ruined for regular yarn. it seems boring. and it is true. you look at crazy handspun and think what the hell will i do with this? but the yarn does all the work. whatever you make looks amazing. in fact, you have to make it simple and let the yarn do the work. and it is fun to knit with, to see what it will look like, because you don’t know. so pdx, here i come. for those of you that live there, let me know, maybe we can catch up. i am thinking of doing a saturday market with diana. woot woot!

on a really sad note, i ran across this, which blew me away, because i didn’t realize they had been in prison for so long.west memphis three have been in prison for 13 years, now. and echols is waiting in solitary confinement to get lethal injection. insanity. and it is so scary to realize that if people don’t want to hear the truth, they won’t. and even in america, the land of the free, you can die for something you didn’t do. and your own tax money might just pay for it. so if you can afford a few bucks to donate, do it.

that is about all. i feel a bit out of it. sorry. but hey, it’s spring! maybe i can hang my fiber up outside!! wooooooooo hoooooooo!

hugs and smooches all around,
n.