It is too hot. By too hot I mean 91F (33C). I know, I know, there are many places where it is in fact much much hotter. But Germans are allergic to air conditioning so there is no respite. And I’m a wimp about the heat.
It is also messing up my fiber plans. I carefully cleared my supported spindle because I have some really pretty angora I’d like to spin. See?
But I can’t. I just can’t. It is too hot to think about touching angora. Notice how I didn’t even take it out of the plastic bags so I could photograph for you what I won’t be spinning.
Instead, I went shopping. I announced earlier this week (when we saw the weather reports) that we would be going dress shopping on Saturday. I only brought three summer dresses with me, and all my skirts are some combination of black, long and/or wool. I’ve been watching German ladies stroll around town in cool fun dresses for weeks while we laboured to buy necessities for our apartment. I had a serious case of envy.
First, we fortified ourselves for what we assumed would be a long painful process. Yes, we. TheEnabler came along for moral support and fashion advice.
It ended up neither long nor painful and I came back with a wardrobe expanded by one skirt and one dress. Perhaps our pre-shopping imbibing helped me not be picky, particular and petulant (my normal state when clothing shopping). I’ll have to try it next time I go shopping. Though I suspect jeans shopping will require more than one.
I am particularly happy with the skirt, which is hand painted cotton jersey. I was so happy with it, that I wore it out of the store. So you get a bonus picture of my sock with it as I worked on it while TheEnabler got a haircut.
I am home now and rather than working on any of my projects, I am surfing around the internet. I am not going to buy the yarn I found which matches my new skirt. It’s “sorbet” (maybe the heat is influencing my thoughts?) by Hedgehog Fibres (the source of my current sock’s yarn).
My plan for not buying it it two fold. 1)Tell myself it doesn’t really match that well, it’s just the heat getting to me, and it’ll match even less well once knitted/crochet into something. 2) Plan to buy it “later” and wait for it to say “sold out”, thus removing temptation. This 2nd part of the plan usually works well for me with small dye lots of yarns and fibers.