Back to normal...

My brother from California came home for Thanksgiving....
He works at a winery in Napa....
We drank a lot of expensive wine....
Boy was it good....
I am sad that he had to go home....we always have a great time. But now we have to get back to normal (that is until Christmas)

I believe I mentioned that I have been doing a lot of knitting and spinning and spinning and knitting. Here are some of the finished skeins that I have spun up:

The above is superwash merino from Cosmic Fibers Yarn. I love Carrie's stuff. I am spinning this 4 oz top on my golding spindle. It feels like I am crawling along with this fiber, but I am getting a decent fingering/dk weight yarn. No plans on what it will eventually become. This here is about 156 yards.

This next skein is more of a worsted weight yarn. I think I got around 160 yards of it. It is also from the lovely and talented Carrie. I believe the fiber is Corridale? Not sure, but I love me some purple!

I am having fun with the photography of my yarn. I am getting the hang of it!

This Sunday is the big reveal of my mystery project! I can't wait to show the finished object. I am really pleased with how it came out. I hope the recipiant will like it too!

My fastest finished object

The pattern is 198 Yards of Heaven and I must say this is. What a great pattern that uses only one skein of worsted weight yarn. I started this last weekend and finished it up yesterday. By finishing I mean blocking and weaving in the ends. I think the size 8 needles helped.


I am so going to make another one or two, or several of these. How can I not?

I used Berocco Ultra Alpaca and it is divine next to the skin.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hi All! I hope you all are stuffing your faces with turkey! I know I will be.
I am so happy this Thanksgiving as my brother from afar has come home. It is going to be very nice.

I have been busy spinning knitting and knitting and spinning. I will show some finished things very soon! Perhaps even tonight or tomorrow.

Enjoy your holiday!

bad blogger.... bad bad blogger I am

What the heck is wrong with me? I thought I would be blogging MORE not LESS now that I can pretty much do it when I want. Well of course I do have to fight for online time here. There are 2 other people.

So what have I been up to? Well lets see... I believe I only had 3 skeins done for my guild holiday project. Then I got 4 done:

And I am happy to say that now I have all 5 complete:

I was a tad bit nervous. I had a goal though. I wanted to complete the spinning by October (check) and now that leaves me all of November to knit my project. I wish I could show progress shots. But alas I can't. Girls from the guild read this here blog and I don't want to spoil the surprise. But come December, I will definately be showing the finished project.

I have something in mind. But that could change at any second.

Oh and PS - I am not dissing you that leave comments. I don't know how to answer comments from Blogger yet. Your e-mail addresses don't show up when I get an e-mail notification. Some of you I have your e-mail. But I will figure this out to. I like to try and respond to all comments when I can.

Deep Peace is up on Ravelry!

I couldn't take the pressure! I finally figured out how to get this up on Ravelry, thanks to Carrie of Cosmic Fibers! Really I was starting to panic. So I did e-mail some of you the pattern. Now you can just go and grab it on Ravelry. If aren't on Ravelry then I can e-mail you the pattern. But you have to give me your e-mail address. So I can now go to sleep.

Please send me pictures or send me a message on Ravelry your finished ones! I want to see them! Do you realize I don't even have one for myself? This one belongs to the yarn store! I think I need to make one.... don't you?

Good night and thank you for all your interest in the pattern. I need to get started on another one right?

;-)

Deep Peace Pattern

Wow! I turn on the computer today and found like 19 e-mails about the pattern! I felt so warm and fuzzy! I have the pattern!!!!!! YAY!!!

But I need some help. How the heck do I upload the pattern to blogger? It is a PDF format and I can't for the life of me figure it out!

Any computer savvy people out there that can lend me a hand? I want to give you this pattern.

I don't even know how to get it uploaded to Ravelry either. I sent them an e-mail and haven't heard back. If this is going to be a pain, I can e-mail anyone who e-mails me at:

sandawich at hotmail dot com

I am sorry this is taking me so long. Please help!

;-)

In my time of dying.....dyeing?

So much for blogging all the time right? Well sometimes life catches up to you and you have to do other things. Like go to a wonderful concert out of town with your family! Yep, Friday we left town (The husband, the son and me) and drove to Schenectady to see Ian Anderson. Yes, the guy from Jethro Tull. He was AWESOME! He did an accoustic set and yes he did Aqualung (but a totally different version) I think the only bad part of the concert was the lady sitting next to me checking her cell phone for the Yankee game score. Why do people do that at concerts? She paid 50 bucks like me to see the show, but seemed more interested in the game! I gave her a few dirty looks and she got the message but still.... I was very annoyed. So we stayed overnight at a motel with an indoor pool. The son loved that. Had a nice dinner then drove home on Saturday.

Which brings me to the title of this blog post. As we are driving home (it's like a 2 1/2 hour trip) my mind starts to wander about what I am going to do with the rest of the day. So I decide I will dye some fiber and yarn, make lasagna, and apple crisp! Ambitious I know, but I did it all! Phew!
My dyeing was very satisfying. Wanna see? Of course you do!

I know, the picture is kinda crappy and doesn't even do the color justice. Trust me this came out beautiful! I used garnet for the red and peacock for the blue. I also dyed some alpaca fiber and roving, that will be another post. Here is another shot of the yarn. I was going to sell this in my etsy shop but I think I am gonna keep it for myself...

I promised a post about why I am such a geek didn't I? Well hopefully that will be next.