Bunny Names!

I can also use this time to pick out bunny names! I've already got a few ideas.

For the girl I have Persephone, Merope, Hermione, and Phoebe. I think Persephone and Phoebe are the best. Hermione is more of a cat name. I'll save Merope.

For the boy, I'm thinking Astyanax, Hephaestus, Hyperion, or Cronus. Tristan would also be a cute name. Maybe Demetri.

And, no, I don't want to name them "Romeo and Juliet" or "Tristan and Iseult" after a famous, tragic couple. Then I'd feel bad later on the line if/when I expand my herd and have to breed Hamlet to both Ophelia and Desdemona. What would Othello say!? (Though, now that I'm actually thinking about it, it is kind of funny! Oh, the scandal! Maybe I'll reconsider.) I would name the boy Iago after the best Shakespearean villain EVER, but people would just assume that Aladdin was my favorite Disney movie. Which it's not. That would be Beauty and the Beast, thank-you-very-much. Oo! Belle would be a pretty name!

The Bunneh Situation

I'm still dead set on getting an angora. Two, actually. A breeding pair! :) I am, however, going to have to wait until JUNE to pick them up :( That way, Chris and I can move and get settled into a house (if we find one around here for rent at a good price) before bringing them home. I've been reading books and forums like MAD to make sure I'm as ready as possible.

In the meantime, I plan on going to fiber festivals and some rabbit shows. I think I'd like to start showing again someday, or at least have the option available for my future kids. I loved being in 4H, and I would love to be able to pass on that experience and joy. Haha, I remember, when I was little, I used to climb into the rabbit cages with my dad's New Zealands and pet them! Big rabbits. Big cages. It worked out. I think I was only 4 or 5.

Anyway, I'm not sure if I want to invest in a spinning wheel just yet. Chris and I are still poor college students, after all. But without a wheel, I'm not sure what I'd do with the fiber in the meantime. Sell it? Box it up for later? That's why I'm going to go to shows. Maybe establish some contacts; figure out what I want to do about spinning, selling, breeding, etc. I'm thinking about a drop spindle, but I've heard they're hard to work with, and also that Angora can be slippery. Doesn't really sound like a good combo to me.

SO yeah, I just need to bide my time, be patient, keep researching, and enjoy my final few months of not having to comb out a rabbit daily! ^_^ Haha, nah, it'll be fun. Just time-consuming.

SO EXCITED!!!

*deep breaths*

How to Wind a Ball with a Center Pull

I thought this was neat and am mainly re-posting it so I know where to look if I ever need to do it!

"Winding a Skein Into a Centre-Pull Ball"

From Ariadne's Weblog.

Too Cool!

It's a Knitting Basket Cake!! How. Cute. Applies to both blogs! :D

I WANT A BUNNEH!!!!

I want a bunny terribly. I'm looking at getting an English Angora so I can spin its lovely fiber :) I found an ARBA registered breeder only 45 minutes from us!! Here's his website: The Fair Hare. There's a SUPER CUTE Bunny Cam which is a webcam he sets up over his bunnies so you can watch a live feed of them being adorable!! I have to confess...I've been watching it all day ^_^ I've also been researching them for the past 24+ hours. I've been learning so much: grooming, feeding, house training, even the genetics behind coloration. I just spent a few hours reading articles and taking a quiz! For example, a Blue Tort Angora will have at least these genes: aaB_C_ddee. As usual, the upper-case is dominant and the lower-case is recessive, therefore, you need only one dominant in order to show, but two recessive in order to show. aa = non-agouti, B = black, C = colored, dd = dilute (dilute of black is blue), and ee = non-extended (tort). The empty space next to B could be B or b (b is brown), and the empty space next to C could be C or c (or a bunch of other c's with superscript letters that I don't want to explain. Plain ol' c is for the albino gene). How cool is that??? Well, I think it's fun ;) If you want to try it out, HERE's the link.

Chris and I plan on taking a trip to see his rabbitry in a few weeks to chat and visit the bunnies. We're thinking we'll be able to get one in May, and that works perfectly if he breeds the rabbits when we visit or if he has already bred some right before (one month gestation period and 2 months for weaning). Wouldn't that be cool? I could watch my bunny grow from conception!! Haha, well, maybe not that closely! Maybe right after that! I also want to be able to visit the bunny (once a week?) while he/she is growing up before I can take him/her home. I'll have to work that out with both Chris and the breeder. I don't know if I want a boy or girl yet. I'm thinking a girl, since Bo is a boy. He might bond better with her if she's not oozing testosterone. All details to be worked out in a few weeks :)

I'M JUST SO EXCITED!!!

Latest 2 Projects

I crocheted a couple of Christmas presents in 2010. I did a couple of coffee cozies for my mother-in-law and a Cthulhu hat for my hubby! Both Patterns came from Ravelry. Here are some pics!











Now I'm working on knitting a scarf! I've never knitted anything before, so this should be an adventure! I'll post pics when it's done :) Wish me luck!!

New Yarn

Well I'll be honest; the new yarn was a huge disappointment :( It's not necessarily the seller's fault, but the pictures were kind of misleading. I thought I was buying worsted weight, when in fact, I was buying fingering. So now I've got a few hanks of embroidery-floss-sized yarn, and no idea what to do with them. The grab bag box wasn't a total loss, though. The main complaint I have with it is that hardly any of the hanks are plied, so they're a pain in the patella to ball up. Lesson learned: eBay yarn = not necessarily a good idea unless you know what you're looking for.