Okay, started work at my brother’s office. Yep, he needs organization help alright. I can’t believe I didn’t think to bring knitting on the bus! Last time that’ll happen. Made a little progress on the blue shawl:

Yeah, that’s a second ball you see there on the right: had to frog a couple of inches. Made a mess of it on the plane, tried to fix it and it only looked worse, so I ripped and am reknitting.

I brought my Joy spinning wheel along, and some superwash merino I want to make some headway with, once this shawl is done. But I brought it out this evening to show my Mom, who got a kick out of it.

Although my Mom has never spun and hardly ever knitted, she used to sew a lot and crochet a little, and I definitely get my fiber affinity from her. She had me ironing at 5, sewing buttons on at 6 or 7, making clothes in my teens. Until a couple of years ago when I met the spinnies in my guild, she was the only one I could talk to about what I was making, what problems I was running into, what I was thinking about doing to solve them, and so on. Other people liked the things I made, but their eyes would glaze over if I started discussing the process. She’s always enjoyed hearing about whatever project my mind was buzzing with.

K.