Mostly just posting a comment because i’m green with envy that you have your life back. I can see a light at the end of my tunnel, but i’m still not positive that it isn’t an oncoming train! Howz your workout plan coming? Told ya I’d pester you! :) a

Plus that teal and orange yarn is gorgeous. You should make more!!

braiding roving is easy, but it’s a pain in the butt. so here’s what i do: take 1 end of the roving and hold it in my left hand. then, i pull up a section from somewhere in the middle and put that in my left hand. so now you should have 3 “ends” in your left hand: the actual end of the roving and the looped over section you picked up. make sure they are all the same length. i tuck the ends under my chin and start braiding, but you could probably stick them under someting heavy and hold them that way. yeah. that sounds like a much better idea, come to think of it. as far as the braiding goes…don’t know how to explain that to you. i’m pretty sure all women are born knowing how to braid. i bet you could google it. practice with some yarn scraps. or go to the goodwill and get yourself a My Little Pony. that’s how i became so adept at braiding ;).

But….

….you don’t know how to braid?!

Anyway, if I can stop being broke long enough (because of all the gorgeous yarn out there), I might place an order for dye-your-own-skein. ;-)

That said - all the numbers have personalities in my head, too!! I didn’t know other people did that! I always felt that 5 is much more elegant and aristocratic than the mundane 4.

Talk about weird things our heads do when left to their own devices…