Knitting. We'll start there. Here's the state of the shawl I started last week, Laminaria. I haven't touched it since last Wednesday.
Isn't it pretty? Why haven't I been knitting on the pretty? Because I'm goofy. I volunteered to test knit a pattern over on Ravelry. A fingerless mitten pattern, and one has to be done by this Thursday.
Because I love deadline knitting. Actually, it wouldn't be so bad, except that there's another deadline. Wednesday. St. Patrick's Day. And I have stuff to get done for then too.
Like a little Irish dancer dolly for Kaylee. The photo was taken yesterday, she now has an arm and a dress. The orangey-red is for her hair, wait til you see how that turns out. This is the pattern I'm using. It's going well, except that the appendages are a bit tricky to work.Saturday was Spin-In day at knitting pal Paula's house. So much fun. I forgot to take my camera with me, so no photos of all the fun. I'm such a bad blogger. But I got a whole bunch of spinning done.
And none of it on my wheel. What?! I know crazy. But I really wanted to work on something really super pretty, and my limited experience with batts (the way that the fiber is prepared/presented) meant that I pulled out the spindles. That's a pic of the spun fiber against the second batt, so I'm halfway done. I'm definitely going to ply on the wheel (thank goodness!).
It's a lot thinner than I had expected it to be, but the fiber dictates, don't fight it. So I need to wind off the singles and get going on that second batt. Woohoo. Note the pretty sparkles. This fiber was bought more than a year ago, from an amazing Etsy seller, ArtemisArtemis, and the spindles are both from the spindle and fiber club from Zebisis Designs, also on Etsy. Have I mentioned how much I adore Etsy?Yesterday, the fam came out for dinner and a visit. Here's photographic evidence of how big the kiddos are getting, note that Aubrey is starting to show curls - poor thing.
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