Changes, computers, spinning, and Trek.

After spending too much time fruitlessly searching for a new Wordpress template, I decided that the current one would be just fine with a new header & colour update. It’s odd how just a couple of small changes can alter the look of a blog so much. I’m quite pleased at the moment.

I’m not altogether pleased (ha) that my calculator brain seems to have misfired during my last 7900s challenge update, though. I somehow managed to record only 80 yards, not 800, for my Nederland Vest. Oops. I also forgot to add in most of the spinning. While fixing the lists, I gave the challenge its own page. Beats cluttering up the main page with a monthly running tally, right?

I lucked into a fabulous tech sale a week ago and bought a new computer. Finished transferring my programs & files to it a couple of days ago, and I’m kinda in love. It has all the hardware I’d wanted, plus it’s super-quiet, super-quick, and came with just the barebones OS instead of being cluttered up with all kinds of useless software. I’m a happy geek.

… In more than one way. I saw the new Star Trek film over the weekend. It lived up to every single one of my expectations and turned me into a flailing fangirl. Not that I haven’t always been a fangirl where any and all incarnations of Trek are concerned, but I came out of that theatre just about over the moon. <3

There’s been more reading than knitting around here lately, but I did finish another skein of handspun.

It’s about 125 yards of Fleece Artist BFL, Navajo-plied and more or less DK; not my most consistent spinning to date, but that’s what I get for watching films instead of listening to audiobooks while spinning. Films I’ve seen before don’t distract me, but with new ones I apparently pay more attention to what’s on the screen than what my hands are doing.

Finished a couple of weeks ago, it just barely squeaks under the wire as my last submission for Project Spectrum’s North quarter. I may pair it with something for striped mittens–maybe a watery blue, or even plain cream. Or, I may knit another cowl. I love that I can squeeze a cowl out of an amount of handspun that’s too small for a hat (my other favourite small project).

I also spun the first bobbin of a lovely Shetland/silk blend from The Thylacine (formerly Warratah Fibrecrafts), and may finish the second out of three tonight. It’s really nice fibre, and seems to spin evenly and smoothly with very little intervention from me.