Oof

I don’t even know where to start. Chez Knitting Doctor (the house, not the blog) has been under serious construction for the past 3 weeks. We had a leak from the deck above into the kitchen ceiling that had a couple of failed attempts at patching. It morphed into major wood rot, stucco damage, failed prior construction issues, etc. We now have scaffolding on all four sides of the house, a huge circus tent over the house, and basically replacement of a significant percentage of the walls of the house.

Yeah, we’re having lots of fun here.

Oh, let’s not forget the hornet’s nest the guys found whilst putting up scaffolding.

The joys of home ownership. It’s all supposedly on deck for completion in 3-4 weeks.

There was wood rot discovered around the window in my closet, so the window had to be removed to repair that. Of course, the window isn’t a standard size, so we just decided to plaster it over and get rid of the window entirely. So all my bins of yarn and fiber are stacked up in places all over the house. In that process, I found a whole bin full of handspun yarn that I’ve forgotten about. All of my commercial yarn is in my Ravelry database, but the handspun has generally just been shoved into the bin when it was finished.

This week I dragged it all out, took pictures, and entered it into Ravelry so I know what I have.

And it’s done. I added about half of it as “mystery yarn”, since I didn’t keep records of what the fiber was.

Here is my latest handspun.

It’s not my best spinning effort. I haven’t used either of my wheels or the spindles much since Hank came to live here, so I need some practice. But it’s done, and useable, so I’m moving on to the next thing. This is BFL fiber from Susan’s Kitchen, and is a little shy of 300 yds. It will make a nice small accessory. I’m tempted to cast on now, but I have SO MANY little nice small accessories already in progress, so into the bin it goes.

Stay tuned for whatever’s next.