I’m plying

Aren’t y’all tired of looking at cream colored yarn? I sure am! I don’t want to do any dying though until my spinning is much better.  This batch turned out pretty well as far as being the “right” amount of twist (I think).  It’s hanging relatively straight on its own…I just soaked and hung to dry.  To entertain myself with something different today, I thought I’d try plying this yarn.  I’m sure there must be a “right” way to do that too but I just wound into a center pull ball and used each end of it to ply on itself.  I basically just let it feed in.  There didn’t seem to be a need to control the twist.  I must admit, this almost looks like respectable yarn, albeit coarse, thick, hairy yarn that really cannot be used for anything. 

 I allowed myself to use some of the Henry’s Attic 80s roving I just got in.  Heaven, I tell you!  I’m excited to be getting all this new roving for the store!  I’m even getting some alpaca from two local Ohio farms.  It’s going to be hard to keep myself from using it but I feel I must since I am so terrible right now.  I will run out of that icky practice yarn though soon and when I do I guess I’ll have no choice.

I’ve also been entertaining myself with an upgrade to Wordpress 2.1.2 and a new template (if you despise geek speak, skip to the next paragraph…if you speak geek though please read on because maybe you can help me????)  Mucking around in code is fun for only so long.  I got everything almost the way I wanted but I still have one problem…the gallery.  When I first started using Wordpress, there really wasn’t a great gallery plugin.  So I got a little help with a template and integrated gallery.  The problem now is I have 2 years of pictures/posts so I’d really like to stick to what I have been using.  Unfortunately, there would be no easy way to transfer the pictures into another gallery without having to go through and update all the picture links.  I got the php code to run in the Galley page but notice what happens when you click a link…there are no longer any sidebars, headers, etc.  I had to put the view.php file in the blog directly just to get them to show at all.  What might be easier and what the person who helped me before did was to take the WP template and wrap it around the actual gallery installation.  I’m having no luck with that either.  Just lots of php errors whenever I try to call the header, footer, sidebar, etc.  I you think you have any ideas about to help, please let me know.  There could would even be a yarn payment involved!  And not the silly Cheryl spun icky stuff either!

Something fun I ran into over at Kristin’s blog today…a little customizable avatar and you can even give it knitting needles. The needles “cost” 2 points but no worries…just use my username as a referral when you sign up “cherylkemp” (no quotes) and you get 5 points free!