Missing Spinning

I miss my handspinning.  Nothing is wrong with the wheel (knocking on wood).  It's me.  I sprained my ankle 3 weeks ago.  I'm in a walking cast and of course it's my dominant foot.  It's also my treadling foot. 

I've tried using my other foot before, but that just doesn't work for me.  When I do that the wheel travels across the floor no matter what.  I could get the wheel switched around, but that doesn't make sense for a short term problem.

I'm just cranky as what I want to do and am really in the mood for, I am unable to do at the moment.   Grrrr. 

With 4 cats around a dropspindle doesn't work for me.  Never could master the blasted thing anyways.  Oh, well.  Que sera, sera.  It's short herm and when I the ankle is up for it, I will most definitely be doing it.  Just needed to gripe.

Still having trouble with this yarn

Well once I got knitting with the Baby Ull things went well.  Then came stringing the beads for the second half.  This time plies didn't break.  The whole yarn broke!!  Not once, but at least 3 times.  The blasted wool yarn also wouldn't spit splice.  It doesn't say anything about being superwash so I have no clue what that is about.  I know that it's not from moving too many beads at once as I made sure to do small amounts of beads at a time.  Also when I started to move beads I checked for broken ones and removed them, thinking that was a contributing factor.  The yarn started breaking further after that.  One thing is for sure, I will not be getting and using this yarn again when done.

At least it is coming along nicely.

Dale of Norway's Baby Ull

Maybe I got a bad skein, but so far I am not humored with this yarn.  I'm using it for another iridescent beaded scarf from Knit One Bead Too.  I got the 2 skeins of the yarn on Thursday.  Yesterday I strung the beads for the first half on one skein.  One of the plies kept breaking and had to discard a bit. Annoying when you have the beads already on it.

One time while spacing beads out between the spacing between the 13 and 14th repeat and ended up having the yarn break due to plies breaking again! Finally, after that yarn did not break again and was able to do spacing for the rest of the first half of scarf. By the looks of it all 65 repeats and edging will fit on what is left after the yarn broke. If not I have the yarn with the first 13 repeats spaced on it.
In case you are wondering how I know the proper spacing, it is because I learned with the first one of these scarves I did that one of my arm spans is the right amount of space between repeats.  I also got this brainstorm to do all the spacing before starting knitting so I don't have to keep stopping to move beads down.  I am glad I did that since I discovered this problem.  Just wondering what to do about the next skein.