The Boy

The big boy fenced pretty well today:) I thought I would share. He took 3rd at Battle In Seattle and his coach Simon took 1st and knocked him out:) Who better to loose to:)

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Baby Yarn

So I finished spinning the yarn that I showed you on the wheel yesterday. It is some really yummy merino that I am sure will make a really nice baby gift one day.

I started with this.


Made these singles:)


N-Plied them to get 144 yards of yummy merino yarn!



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Friday's Fun

Okay Okay, I know it's a lame title:) I just couldn't help it! I finished a sock that I just LOVE! Of course I am using another Frog Creek Fiber sock yarn! I really need to get those girls to list some yarn on etsy again! It is awesome stuff! Maybe you all need to bug them for me:) The spoiled hubby is getting another pair of socks, go figure:)



I am also spinning up some fiber that I dyed. No one seems to like this colorway! O-well, I love it:) Merino = YUMMMMMMMM!


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1000!!!

I did it, I reached 1000 sales in my shop! I am so excited. I have been doing a happy dance:) This was a big milestone and I am thrilled to have reached it. This was my 1000th sale! Thanks Emily!


I better start working on 2000!
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Blue

Blue! Oh so blue:) I spun up this beautiful yarn from one of my dear friend Shelby's flowers:)There is no other word for it other then blue:) It is soft yummy merino, my favorite! I got 116 yards bulky, it will make a great hat or mitts. Love it!



This is what I think I am going to spin next:) No one seems to like this colorway and it is just sitting in my shop begging me to spin it, how can I say NO!


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Spinning for socks:)

I finished spinning up some superwash merino yesterday. I showed you all this yarn when it was on my bobbin last week. I spun some fine singles and then N-Plied them, so that I would get yarn that stripes. I am really happy with the finished yarn but the yardage is low. I am not sure why it is so low because it is very fine yarn! I only got 310 yards fingering out of 4 ounces of superwash merino, at this weight n-plied I usually get at least 50 yards more:( O-well, I will make some short socks:)




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Finished The Socks:)

I finished my January Socks!!!! I love them:)



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My View

This is the view out my front window today. It is grey and rainy again:) Good weather to snuggle up and knit, spin and dye:) I guess I will have to do that!




I am almost done with this months socks, hopefully I will have pictures of them for you tomorrow:)

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What I am Working On!

I am spinning up some fiber from Christina Marie Potter! I love how it is turning out:) I might make some socks with it!


I am also knitting the Umaro blanket by Jared Flood. I am totally loving the big fat yarn and needles. This is going to be a quick knit! This Cascade Lana Grande I got at the Bee rocks!!!!



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Fiber Compare:)

So yesterday I dyed up a bunch of fiber for the shop! I also dyed a little more sock yarn. Anyway I thought you all might like to see how the sock yarn and some Falkland combed top, took the same colors a little differently:)




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Mini Bump Fair Isle Kits

I dyed up some semi solids in small amounts for fair isle kits:) I really think they are lots of fun! I am planning on designing a pattern to go with them sometime in the future but I have lots of knitting I have to get done first:)



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Forest Has A Long Memory

I just finished spinning up this beautiful fiber dyed by Spinning Awesome Good:) The color name is Forest Has A Long Memory. I got 254 yards out of 4 ounces of Superwash Merino. The yarn is DK weight and I have no idea what I will make out of it! I am sure I will come up with something good!



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Dyeing Sock Yarn Adventure

Okay for a while now I have had some lovely friends and customers begging me to dye sock yarn and I have resisted:) But yesterday I caved! I purchased 6 skeins of Merino and Silk fingering weight sock yarn to play with:) Boy this was fun! SHHHH don't tell anyone, but it was way easier then dyeing fiber!

So this is what I got with three off my favorite colorways!

Fun


Gorge


Night Forest

Sorry about that bad Pictures the light is terrible outside and I really need to get a light box!
Ohh and I forgot to mention that they are in my etsy shop:)
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Another UFO Bites the Dust!

I am so excited:) Another UFO bites the dust!!! For those of you who don't know already UFO, in this instance it stands for unfinished object:) I finished Gregory's socks this morning and that makes 3 UFOs that I have finished in the new year! I promised myself that I would finish 12 UFOs this year:) Some of them are very big so I am getting the small ones out of the way quickly.
So here are Gregory's socks, knit from my handspun in the Gregory colorway!


Oh and yes it is foggy out this morning:)Just in case you noticed the fog in the background of the picture.

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New Socks

I fell in love with the Paul Atwell Socks that the Yarn Harlot knit just before Christmas, so I added them to my list:) This pattern is really easy to memorize and lots of fun to knit! I knit a lots of masculine socks for the very spoiled hubby:) I thought these would fit the bill nicely! The yarn is from my friends over at Frog Creek Fibers and they promise me they will add some things to their shop soon!



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Finished Socks:)

I finished the Stove Pipe Socks! I love them:)))
The weather has been pretty crappy here the last couple of days, thus my pictures are crappy! I need to take a photography class!



Oh yes I have a very spoiled husband:) I started a new pair of socks for him as soon as I finished this pair!!!!
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Slipped Stitch Double Knitting

So I just finished up this Slipped Stitch Double Knit Scarf:) I designed it to teach a class. I really love how it turned out and I might just have to make a brighter version:) I will have the pattern available for free on the side of the blog in a few weeks:)




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New Years Spinning

I spun this fiber most of the day on New Years Eve and then plied it on New Years Day! It is called Story Book and was dyed by christinamariepotter on etsy:) The colors are a little off in the pictures that I took of the finished yarn. The yarn is a little more green and yellow then this! I am still trying to figure out how to get the camera to capture the colors just right!





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