My... the time goes by so fast!

And as often happens I haven't accomplished much.  But I have been spinning this beautiful sparkly fiber on my ReinTwindle:

And I got out the Navajo spindle and did a little on that - wow it's been a long time since I've used it!

 Oh and I finished the lovely yellow singles on the Reeves.  I'm letting them rest on the bobbins until I get a speed controller for the sewing machine motor I'm using for my e-spinner (fingers crossed).

And I caught my buddy sleeping on the new dog bed I bought for Lazy Dog:

Actually, it fits him better than it does her - she's bigger and doesn't quite curl up small enough to fit on it.  She was on it most of today though - I think they both like it. :-D 

Knitting with handspun....

So I finally finished my first handspun project! 

This was fun, though I was a bit short on yarn so I took a bit of confetti roving that I had in my stash and quick-spun enough to bind off.  It's knit a bit loose due to having so little yarn, but I like it. :-)

Then I kinda went nuts and bought some fiber, but honestly, how can anyone pass this up?

BFL, "Marigold"

I started spinning it on the Reeves as soon as it arrived! :-D

That's a flash pic, so it looks a bit washed out.  It still has the same deep colors as the roving.  I bought this from Unwind Yarn Company .  I'm actually on the third quarter it - it's going really fast and is a lovely spin!

I also bought a silk brick from another Etsy shop that I will have to try to get a photo of when the sun comes again, but the colors are gorgeous!  My hands are really dry right now so it will be a bit before I start spinning that.


Your gratuitous puppy pic!

Happy New Year and St. Distaff's Day!

Since yesterday was St. Distaff's Day, I decided to leave working in the woodshop til today and actually spin. :-)

I spun on the Polonaise,

and I spun on the Babe,

and I spun on the ReinTwindle and the Nepalese spindle. :-D

This past week I also started knitting with handspun - my first handspun project!

It's going to be a mobius - though with this art-ish yarn I couldn't see the cast-on well enough to do a mobius cast-on, so I'm knitting it flat and then will seam it.  Unfortunately it looks like I'm a hair short of yarn to do a bind-off, but I have a white fuzzy yarn that I can ply with the silvery thread that hopefully won't stand out too much in the short bit that I need to fill in.  Hopefully I'll finish this tonight.

I'm also going to start a Sky Scarf as a sort of knitalong on Ravelry.  It's a cool idea - knit two rows a day in the color of your sky. :-)  Unfortunately I had a bit of a time finding yarn to do this with - this was the best I could do:

I'm not sure the top fuzzy yarn will work as it's bigger than the sock yarn, but there may be a way to get around it.  I might use it for snow, or maybe a blizzard if we get any this year.  I also have the sort-of 'hairy' yarn I can use for snow, and beads I can use for snow and rain. :-)  I'm also considering doing a night scarf, but haven't figured out the details yet.


And last but not least, the young boy after an exhausting morning of protecting me from the men who came to install new gutters yesterday morning:

Poor guy. :-)