luxe

i know i promised to post photos, but i was up all night, jake worked this morning, so i was up when he left and didn’t fall asleep until 6 am or so. i had a headache. i woke up around 8:30a, because we were going to the ligonier market, i got ready and we left around 10a, still a bad bad headache. we went, i stopped at the yarn store to get the laceweight i needed plus some pretty and durable yarn for more socky things, maybe even legwarmers, i dunno, tired at this point. we got home, jake and i hung out and then i took some meds and fell asleep. i woke up feeling groggy and crazy. when i get migraines, i always have a euphoric period and i used to think i was fine, and then i would get hit with a mega migraine when it came back. so butta and amy were coming over because we were bbq-ing on our tiny $10 charcoal grill which is really cute and jake did an awesome job. ok, so i eat a burger, no bun and some coleslaw that i made that was really good, not my usual sweet and sour, but a traditional coleslaw. a few minutes after eating i felt sick. really really sick. i hadn’t eaten all day except for some bumbleberry pie (which wasn’t as good as i thought it would be). so i went upstairs and took some migraine stuff and then proceeded to barf my guts out for a while. by the time i felt better, at 10p, everyone was leaving. sucked. so, i got no work done today and also didn’t get to really spend time with anyone. and my head still hurts, so i worry that i will be sick later tonite, as well.

while i was in ligonier, there was a big antique street thingy, i am not sure if it is all the time, or just this weekend because there were no signs for it. anyway, i saw this gorgeous old quilt for $19 (why do i feel the need to tell everyone what i pay for stuff? i am like my jewish granny!) and jake got it for me.

also, at kathy’s, jamey, the first person that i bought fiber from works there ocassionally, she is in her 40′s and has a farm with cattle and sheep and chucks and angora bunnies, among other things, and told me that she is only going to keep a small spinner’s flock and get rid of the rest of sheep because it is too expensive. pretty crazy. the reason i needed to stop in was that i sold a skein of handpainted laceweight merino and when i went to wind it, things went awry, to put it mildly. she said that i could just soak the skein in a small glass pan and drain it and then use hot water with the dye and add the vinegar and it would set without heating it further and then the yarn won’t tangle so much. the customer has been waiting forever and i don’t know when my yarn order will come, so i decided just to pay retail and get some skacel undyed fiber. so wish me luck. i have never dyed anything just with the hot pour method and not heat set it. but i will try. worst case scenario, i need to microwave it. i just want to make sure it is colorfast. anyone who has tried this, drop me a line.

i was looking through old yarn photos (from last year or so) and was so embarrassed that i had shown them to anyone. man, they sucked. so rough and lumpy and even my actual skeining looked like poop. it is so funny how when you are into something and first learn to do it, all of your mistakes look pretty and unique. i see my yarns now and it is so remarkably different. i left a 45 yard skein for kathy, who is at the giant fiber thing in indianapolis, so i hope she enjoys them.

i hope to take photos to-morrow.
so so tired, even though i have slept off and on all day. and so behind on blogs. and unable to work on the big order i have to send out because i am out of dyed fiber, the only fiber i have is special stuff that is super expensive, silk, camel, etc.

did you guys hear about poor barbaro the racehorse? poor guy! anyway, he is doing well, it says in the article that he is flirting with the mares, so that is good news. he will now be in for a life of being a stud. literally. so not so bad. at all.

pray that my migraine is done. ok?
pass the grey poupon,
n.

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