I took a spinning class this weekend with Amy. I felt totally sick during the class, but I left with enough knowledge to generate yarn from floof. Yarn! I’m totally going with the thick-and-thin, Manos-like yarn that I’m creating, and the spinning thing is pretty fun. What to do with the slubby yarn… everyone gets hats this winter! Ha!

I’m not sure that I would take another class at a knitting shop again. I’ve faired pretty well so far teaching myself how to [knit, sew, etc], and I’m not convinced that the spinning class tought me very much. Sure, I felt like poo for 80% of it, but I really did understand most of where we were going in the class from stumbling across spinning info online. One thing that we learned that I didn’t know was to go clockwise for a Z-twist. Useful. Then our instructor talked for a couple of minutes about which way is clockwise and which way is counter-clockwise. She even had a CD with arrows pointing in the correct direction. Yeah, clocks and direction and all, got it. She also had a skein of cat fur that she had spun up, which Amy and I agreed was odd (Amy’s term was more like: disgusting).

My Target Wave mitten with modifications. I’m basically just upsizing the length to fit my changed gauge and adding some width. I actually finished this mitten today, but I’m going to redo the thumb part because it’s a bit too large. I needed a small project, and these little guys are perfect, yay!