luxe

there is a french movie called high tension that i got from netflix, jake will get mad if i say it, but we had seen a preview for it and he said i wanted to see it. i thought it was a “thriller”. it is an insanely gnarly horror flick. scary. i am hoping that i don’t have nightmares for the rest of my life. really really bad. and not just a horror movie like friday 13th that couldn’t happen, but more like a insane serial killer dude knocks on your door and starts ripping your family apart, etc. more like that. so. i am glad i don’t live in the boonies. that helps. but i sat there winding skeins of sock yarn and watching it like a dumbass. and then jake said not to watch the rest so he could watch it with me. seriously?

i didn’t get much done other than skeining the damn sock yarn. the bane of my existence. i hate winding. hate it. i wound around 4000 yards, i think. and i have more to do in addition to winding my handspun into skeins. so. it tires me out really quickly and i lose my patience in no time flat.

i don’t know if i said this before or not, but i got my yarns back that hadn’t sold from the renegade festival. they were older yarns from pittsburgh knit and bead that hadn’t sold. the SUCKED. not just that, but were really expensive AND sucky. holy crap. i am lucky that i sold any of my yarns at all back then. and they sold really well, actually. remarkably. and i owe those people some new yarn. christ! and of course, when you are new at any art or craft you see the beauty in it, rather than the flaws, and the flaws are beautiful and unique…and then you get the skill and the eye that comes along with it to understand that it actually isn’t so good. at all. somehow i didn’t realize how far i had come. after seeing some of that crapola…really far. i feel a bit ashamed that lexi and jenny and angela and jacey and therese and all the other more accomplished spinners there at camp pluckyfluff saw more work. hopefully they roll past my site to see the new things that suck less. or i like at the moment. give it time.

i only like how really thin thread or clear nylon looks for plying, unless it is a 2 ply or something. i have tons of other things to use but i just don’t like how they look. at all. especially for beading and sequins, i choose them most all the time.

i have dyeing to do to-morrow. gotta gotta gotta. some sock yarns and a bunch of top. as much as is lupus inflicted-humanly possible. on that thread…my good buddy is sickness and fiber pippi kneesocks was on herself about not doing enough work and not having the energy to clean her house, etc, general guilt that i think all sick-ish women feel…we do what we can, and it is good to let people know when you can’t do something at the moment. and good to blog it when you feel like a big lame loser who never gets anything done so everyone can tell you to stop acting like a nut, because it isn’t true.

wish me luck!
n.