Box o’ Yarn and a whole lotta tv
Box o’ yarn
I was cleaning up my fiber room (and, no, I didn’t finish) and took this lovely picture of my handspun yarn.
It’s one of two boxes of handspun I’ve filled up. This box is about 24 inches deep (too deep to fit on my storage rack). I just love all the colors–most are dyed, but the one big, dark brown skein is natural colored Coopworth from Hatchtown Farm. It’s Bergetta’s hoggett (first) fleece from about five years ago. I’ve got enough spun to make a sweater, but I haven’t actually knit anything yet.
So, what do you do when you’re knitting? If I had more people to hang out with, I could talk with them, but the times I can knit (usually late evening after the kids go to bed) are not condusive to haven’t company over. I could listen to audio books but I find most of them to be . . . slow or not well-read.
For most of my knitting I can both watch tv and knit at the same time, so I choose to watch tv. What’s on my watch list?
–We got Freaks and Geeks on Netflix. It’s a ton of fun, but some of the more painful moments hit too close to home. I got beaten up in HS gym class too many times to count. We’ve watched ep 1 and 2.
–Andy Barker, PI, is available for d/l at NBC.com. It’s laugh out loud funny, even upon a second viewing. The first two eps are a 10 on the funny meter, the third is a 7, but still worth watching.
–Bones is available on Fox.com and is best “watched” while knitting. The gory, gross, or boney parts are easily avoided by paying attention to your knits and purls. I love the characters (Angela and Hodgins are just *so* cute together) and the stories are interesting, even if a bit bizarre.
–Gray’s Anatomy is available at NBC.com. Gray’s is good for knitting, since it occasionally has blood and surgery, but the people are so beautiful, you’ll need to look up often.
–Blood Ties on Lifetime (also available to d/l on iTunes) is dark and a bit weird, but the people are beautiful.
–Friday Night Lights (at NBC.com) is a new find for me. I’m only on ep 4, but it’s good stuff. It’s especially good if you like football, but I’ve been told my my non-football-watching friends that they like it, too. Many, well-written characters and a compelling story.
Here are things in my to-be-watched queue. I don’t know if they’re good for knitting yet or not.
–Oz (HBO), the DVDs are in the queue.
–The Tudors (Showtime), starts this weekend.
–The Riches (F/X), I taped them and will get to them sometime.
–Eureka (SciFi), the first season ended last summer, with a second 13-ep season ordered for this summer. I’ve been told it was excellent, and will tape it when it reruns (which I’m sure will be before they start the second season).
Not much yarn, but a whole lot of tv. 
