Spinning

Well I think spinning is going to be a new hobby. I really liked doing it. I had 2 oz of finished yarn that measured 48 yards. I have already washed and dried it and will soon wind it into a ball. What to make out of it, I don't know. Maybe catnip mice for my cats? Any ideas? Here is the picture.
I want to start spinning the dark brown merino I bought, but I need to work on knitting the sweater and I have some sewing projects to do. I lost about 25 pounds last year and all of my dress clothes are too big. I have the sewing skills to alter the garments, but I lack the ambition. I fixed one skirt tonight and it only took about 45 minutes, so it isn't really a bad task, but not as much fun as knitting.

WIP, FO, Fiber and Hair

Here is a WIP picture of the Fibonacci sweater. The yarn is very soft and progress continues. The worst part will be weaving in all of the ends from changing colors.
Here is the FO picture of the Cape Cod fan and feather socks.
Pattern: Wendy's generic fan and feather sock pattern
Yarn: Knit Picks Sock Landscape in Cape Cod
Needles: 2.5mm Inox dpns

I went to the Gathering of Wool at Young's dairy near Yellow Springs, OH on saturday. Here are the goodies I bought.

This was a kit from Mount Ampato Alpacas (www.alpacanation.com/mountampato.asp). It had the book, spindle and about 4oz of wool/alpaca blend to try spinning. I had checked the book out from the library and really liked it so I was glad to see a kit containing this book. I spun what is on the spindle after dinner last night. It is fairly easy, but will take some work to get the yarn even. I also got some other roving to spin. This is 1 pound of a dark gray merino.

And now for the hair comment. I went to get my hair cut on tuesday. My hair was below my bra strap. I asked for 5 inches to be cut off. This would bring my hair to my armpit level and still be easy to put in a bun for ballet class and get the yucky ends cut off. Well I belive she cut about 8 inches. It just hits below my shoulders. I had a struggle to get it in a bun for wednesday's ballet class. I usually have the other problem with haircuts, they don't cut enough. I will admit it looks cute and good on me, but is a lot harder to deal with for dance classes. I had my hair a little shorter than this about 5 years ago when I donated 13 inches to Locks for Love (they make wigs for kids). I was hoping to get the bad parts cut off and then continue to grow it so I could get the required 10 inches to donate again. I guess it will just be a while longer before that.

Mystery Stole 2 as a FO

Here is the MS2 pre-block.




Here it is during blocking. I used wires in the middle and between the body and edging and used crochet cotton and pins for the long edges and just pins for the points. I also used a laser level to get the nice straight edges.




Here is one shot of the finished work. It didn't fit into the frame, so there is another picture from one end.









Pattern: Mystery Stole 2
Pattern Source: Pink Lemon Twist
Yarn: Jaggerspun Zephyr in Mushroom
Yarn Source: Webs (www.yarn.com)
Needles: Inox Express, 3mm/US 3, 2 pair
Knitting time: July7th- Aug 30.

You might also notice that I only have 2 projects on the needles listed. I decided to frog both the doubleknit potholder and the suede shawl. Neither was holding my interest, so they both jumped into the pond. I hope to finish the Cape Cod socks soon as they are also getting boring, but I must finish.