Adobe InDesign is installing in the background. Goo Goo Dolls coming from the speakers. The spinning wheel has an almost-finished bobbin of lace-weight on it, the last of the roving waiting to be spun, and then plied. The remainder of Dante from months back is waiting in a box to be spun next, with four ounces of bamboo roving behind it. A small skein of newly-dyed bamboo is hanging dry in the bathroom, reveling in its plum and amethyst brilliance. Or maybe I’m the one reveling – I’m tired enough that I’m not quite sure.

Moving is starting to take its toll. There is still quite a bit of cleaning to do, and plenty of things to mail off – like the spinning wheel and any fiber I don’t spin into yarn between now and Monday. It’s a breakneck pace… and I’m missing playing Vanguard, missing being able to de-stress in another world where I don’t have to worry about what real work is left to be done – if only for an hour. Unfortunately, the computers capable of running Vanguard won’t be back in our possession until early August, so I’m making do with a lot of knitting and a lot of reading. Even more knitting and reading will ensue once the spinning wheel, ball winder and all the other fiber toys have been mailed off. (Luckily, the wheel will arrive in our new home shortly after we do, accompanied by my fiber and dyes, so even if there is no Vanguard to look forward to, I will have my wheel and fiber back sooner than later.)

In happy yarn news… Faded Rose is almost done, months after starting it. I’m hoping to finish it up tonight, and get Dante back on the wheel. I’d really love to get through Dante tomorrow, and burn through the remaining 4oz of the open bag of bamboo top. That bamboo is slated to become socks for my oldest son – I would have used the yarn drying now, except I couldn’t bring myself to put him in purple socks, and I needed to use up the purple dye I have mixed. I’m thinking greens, or red-white-blue, maybe tan and brown. I’m not sure – what is exuberant enough for a four year old boy, while still being wearable to school? I wonder if I could pull off red and blue, with an intarsia or embroidered on Spiderman spider over the ankles? He’s all but fully convinced he’s Spiderman already… he’d really love Spiderman Socks. Intarsia in socks. It’s not that hard, is it?

Time for me to get back to work; Happy Hump Day everyone!