Guess who finally, FINALLY has internet at home? moi! And to celebrate, I have an update with actual, real pictures.
Firstly, the Jaywalkers:
I’m slowly getting there. I won’t finish in May, but I hope to be done by the middle of June. I might end up getting a lot of knitting done this Saturday. The boyfriend (he brought me flowers this past weekend! heart!) is working all day, so who knows what I’ll get up to. 
This is an interesting yarn, it’s Lorna’s Laces Shepherd sock, which all of you know. It’s a self-striping yarn called ‘Bee Stripe’, so I was hoping for thick bumble bee stripes. Instead I’m getting keep left/keep right signs. No wonder they’re Jaywalkers, they don’t know which side of the road to be on!
Then, remember I said my May Project Spectrum would be to decide what to do with that lovely silk/wool Lady Godiva yarn? I will make a small Clapotis. And yesterday, I frogged my half a scarf. Almost the whole skein had already been knitted, and I ripped it all out. I didn’t feel bad at all. I want to use the yarn, but it wasn’t happy in that particular pattern.
First I wound it around my upper arm/fingers to make a skein. I then looped one end of the skein around a hanger, then attached a plastic bag with 4 cans of chunk light tuna (mmmm) to the other end for weight. I hung it for a while in my closet, and nothing happened. Then I took a hot, steamy shower, with the whole contraption hanging in the bathroom.
That worked pretty well, except I hadn’t been consistent with my original wrapping. so some was very loose, and thus didn’t stretch out. So I reskeined it tonight, using my dresser drawer handles instead of my poor tired arm. This worked really well, I could really keep the tension even. But. Look at the picture below, and the lovely round handles that kept the yarn from springing off the post part. Think about it for a minute or two. How did I get it off the dresser, you ask? I used a knife (bad theatre person, no multitool) to unscrew one handle, and then it popped off. The I went again with the tuna and the shower, and now I have a skein of lovely straight(ish, but I’m too scared of over-working the yarn to do it again) yarn.
And now I have internet on my bed (yay!) I’ll finally be able to write up my first Amazing Lace entry. Some other night. I’m sleepy and rambly now.
