what I’ve been up to

The zinnias had a lasting effect. After the natural colored mohair, I had to spin some COLOR! I’d say I definitely found it!  Merino/bamboo, about 800 yards of heavy worsted.  No idea what it’ll be, definitely something girly! After clearing my bobbins, I forced myself to get back to my MIL’s Parcheesi. I finished the [...]

at times like these

I wish I had a motorized skeiner!  I thought to take a picture after I’d already wound off 100 yards, so it was truly a PACKED bobbin!  I bought the fiber at SAFF last fall: Two 4 oz. balls of mohair bought with blending in mind, but a few weeks ago I had the urge [...]

a disturbing lack of fiber

Yes, this blog has been sorely lacking in fiber lately.  Exercising a couple times a day and food prep for eating healthily takes a toll on the amount of time I have for fiber fun, but it’s worth it – I’ve lost 6 lbs in two weeks! Last weekend, I was in the mood to [...]

finito!

My MIL’s birthday socks are finished!  Eight days, cast on to cast off.  Amazing what new yarn can do for my stick-to-it-ness! Pattern:  Child’s First Socks by Nancy Bush in Knitting Vintage Socks Yarn:  A tad less than two skeins of Koigu KPPM (if anyone really wants to know the colorway, I can find it).  [...]

finally awake

Why oh why do we persist in changing our clocks?!?!  Admittedly, falling back and gaining an extra hour in the mornings is nice, but not worth the bleary-eyed fog brought on by springing forward! Anyway … hi!  Hope you guys have been coping better than I have!  My post today will be random to match [...]

tuesdays are for spinning

Well.  First let me say thanks for all the comments on my Olympic project!  I can only imagine what I could accomplish in life if I were that disciplined all the time.  But, it’s not my nature, so once every four years will have to suffice! Last week I was felled by a horrible sinus [...]

olympic dreams

Since I started knitting four years ago and began reading knit blogs, I’ve looked forward to the next winter Olympics so I could participate.  It sounds like so much fun – the challenge of selecting a project and race to finish, going for the gold, and all the while watching winter Olympic sports – which [...]

emerging from the cocooon

Winter hits me hardest in January.  Some people get down over the holidays but I’m too busy to really wallow in it until January.  It’s not so much that I get full blow depressed, I just withdraw. This January I’ve had the opposite of King Midas’ touch – every project I began after completing Staghorn [...]

wooly bully

This weekend, for the first time since I can’t remember when, we had absolutely nothing to do.  Nowhere to we had to go, no huge chores to be checked off the list, we could do what we wanted the entire weekend.  It was heaven!  On a whim, I set up my carder yesterday morning and [...]

playing catch-up

Despite not blogging much lately, I have been spinning, knitting, and taking pictures. Remember the three ply I was in the process of making?  I combined two bobbins of light colored fiber with one bobbin of brighter-colored fiber, and this is what I got: Oh wait, the cat’s in the way!  Let me try again. [...]

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