My bad

Apparently the month of November is racing to a finish at about the same rate as October. Next week is Thanksgiving and the menu is just about finalized. This year we've decided to skip the tabbolih/fattoush and just have a couple of cooked veggies at a side. The tabbolih is just way too labor intensive and we always have too much fattoush left over. Aside from that we are going to fry our turkey again this year--I should say we're going to fry up our two turkeys this year.
On the yarn/knitting front I'm going to be dying some more of my nagini colorway--it is a really good combination of greens and it sold out of my etsy shop. I'm debating dying some more of the Fawkes colorway but I may do either a nice blue-snowflake blend for the winter instead.
I took my first spinning lesson the last week of October and needless to say, my talents are rather non-existent. I thought my years of wheel throwing experience would help, but not really. Changing the type of wheel I was using did help though--even though that first one was very pretty. And in case you wanted to see (although I should warn you, just skip over this if you have a weak stomach regarding good roving turned into bad yarn):

On Sunday, I drove up to Lansing for a class on yarn replacement taught by Amy R. Singer (from No Sheep for You and Knitty fame--in case you didn't know). It was a great class and frankly made me wonder who knits with hemp---although I may challenge myself to try it out later. My main reason for taking the class is rather simple. I never use the recommended yarn for projects and patterns that I knit. As far as I'm concerned the suggested pattern is a suggestion not strict guidelines--as if I would ever limit myself to what other people tell me I need to do.