Spin me some chunky!

I spun up some chunky merino this week. I am not sure if I like how I spun it. I like the colors by themselves but I am not sure if I like how they blended. I bet I will love it knit up though:)





I set my knitting and spinning goals for this year! Check them out in my notebook on Ravelry:) I hope you all have a safe and wonderful New Years Eve! I will talk to you in the new year!

Happy Adventures, Trish

A bag-o-wool!

I got a big bag of wool for Christmas! It is Tara Tweed from the Knitting Bee! I love it and am going to knit Mulled Cider! What knitter wouldn't love a bag of wool for Christmas!


Happy Christmas everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful holiday!
Trish

I got a great early Christmas gift!!!

My hubby is doing something with yarn!!! It isn't knitting but it is almost as good!!!



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Finally!

I finished my hat and mittens out of handspun! I have been done with the hat for a while but I finished the mittens today:) I think that they are fun! they don't match on purpose and I love it!





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More Colors

I dyed a couple colorways yesterday that I like a lot. So I thought I would give you all a peek!



I have finished knitting to show you all but the weather is not so good for pictures:( So hopefully I can get pictures of my finished cowl and toddler sweater soon!

Oh Oh, and I am knitting the yarn up from the last post and I LOVE IT!!!!! I will have that to show you soon also!

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Ready to start!

Okay I spun up a second skein to go with the one I spun the other day! I am going to make stripping mittens and a matching hat for winter walks:) I just had to give you all a little preview! I can't start until my Christmas knitting is done though! Hopefully soon, if I would just quit adding people to my list!

Oh yes and that is lots of frost outside! It was 26 degrees this morning when I took the pictures.

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Woot! I did it!

I spun Aran weight yarn in a single! I know those of you who don't spin have no idea what I am talking about so I will explain! So this is how the story goes. When most people learn to spin all they can spin at first are thick and thin fat singles and as we spin more and more we learn to spin finer and finer until we make smooth uniform thin yarn. Then one day the spinner says to oneself I would love to spin a chunky yarn and guess what it is hard to do! Darn near impossible! I have been working on this for a while! Like a year! I feel like I graduated:)Happy dance is going on at my house.

The fiber before it became yarn.


The yarn! 208 yards aran weight singles!



OH OH, I finished a cute little sweater yesterday that I will have to blog tomorrow, once I get the buttons on:)
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Playing with Sock Yarn!

I dyed some of my absolute favorite sock yarn base. It is 75% merino and 25% nylon. It wears really well and the socks last a long time:) I dyed up just 5 of my colorways and I love how they turned out. I am off to list them in my shop:)





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New Colorway

I like it!!! I named it Helen. Oh and Helen it is not exactly like what you are getting for your birthday! I am trying not to spin this one at the moment!


Oh and I will have some finished knitting for you all soon! The last few projects on my list are taking a bit longer then the others:)
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