Fibress

It occured that i didnt have that much fibre stash left so i went to investigate:
thats it, thats all i have (well save the never ending roving thats on the wheel and the dragonfiber stuff but that will be saved til this is all done) I reakon thats a months worth tops! Saying that i took the photo prolly a month ago and bugger all has been spun tho i have carded the wensleydale. I think i need to set myself a challenge...

Can i have no fibre stash by the time i leave the country on the 3rd of July? thats a smidge over a month. Can i do it? We'll see...

Cherries and sweeps

Remember the fat quarters i got back in October? well thanks once again to the sewing wizardry of Mme Sue they have become bags!because one can never have too man bags, especially if they have the sweeps on! this is now just and excuse for more WIPs of course...


I have also been spinning:
Cherry Truffle Tussah silk, quite lully.
217yds, 41g of roughly lace-fingering weight yarnages

Friday: FO and Fibre!!

I finished something!! Shocker!! In a bout of knitting ADD i decided to cast on something that would hopefuly be fairly quick just to have something finished. I think knitting time this took about 3 days but they were spread over about as many weeks so!

I give you Saturday morning market bag:
(see as well as being useful for bringing me snack foods he is a dahhhaaalink knitwear model hehehe). Its a bit of an odd shape almost triangular.

When filled with goodies it stretchs out quite a lot:
Still not the regularist of shapes tho.
The reason for the odd shape?

slight yarn shortage, this was all i had left...

Pattern is thus, I modified it quite a bit, first i knit the main bit of the bag in the round and did a 3 needle bind off for the bottom seam, I have no idea how many pattern repeats i did just til i felt the need to stop, then cos i was running out of yarn i only did 2 ounds of garter round the top and made the handle quite short.

Yarn be Ella Rae Kasbah in teal.


And since i was getting stuff from Scottish Fibres anyway i got a few wee bittys for myself (well mother (we) just got a double treadle kit so there will be much spnning to do)
Linen tops stuff
Ronaldsay, sheepies from some Islands up north that eat nothing but seaweed so makes the wool different, we shall see what its like when we spin!

spinning up a storm!

Exams are over wheeee!! Last one was better than i thot it would be but we'll see.

As such i have lots of time on my hands so yesterday i sat down with season 2 of the Gilmore Girls (love it) and my wheel (which incidently needs a name, ideas??)


Corridale i starte ages ago and it got kinda neglected:Tis 105g, 40yds of fairly bulky (about 5wpi) but very smooshyness. No idea what it will become!
Next!
BFL in bumblefee! Got this from KK's etsy store bck in what May? and finally decided i can do it justice. Rather lully no?
Span it all up last night then decided i would give this Navajo Plying a bash, turns out 12.40am is not the time to try and learn new things! Thus i gave up til this morning and got it sorted out thus:

114g, 67yds somewhere between aran and chunky i think (7wpi), again what to make?

But now i think these kiddies need a bath and a stretch.

Got milk?

I has

Milk protein fibre (i dunno?) tis uber soft and silky!

gots about 204 yds of laceweightish outta 37.5g

Crochet!

While there hasnt been any knitting, i decided to try my hand at some crochet! I made squares
Squares became a scarf!

wonderfully modeled by mums whim vase.


Its the Pom Pom trimmed scarf from easy crocheted accesories by Carol Meldrum, in Rowan chunky print, girly pink.

We went to New Lanark for free cups of tea, and i resisted buying yarn. I did see Lyndsey and got a bee tattoo woo
beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
the back of my head looking towards New Lanark, note the knitting needles as hair accessories!


There has also been spinning:
Milk protein attempting to be laceweight, more to come...

And thus to catch up

Where to start? I do not kno... here will do

Miss Sue sent me shinys!stitchmarkers!
and pretty pretty handmade bracelet, you can buy your very owns here.

I did me some spinning
Merino Silk, sorta aranish, 105yds, no idea of the weight as the scales are broke!
closes
neon!

Yorkie came to visit! we went to a medievil fayre in the rain...
then...
Maxman and i did some spinning (Yorkie did too but the less said about that the better ;) )

Sunday we went to see some Scotland!
looked at the viewssaw magestic stags!
took group photoes atop signal rock!

Yorkie brought me things:
a hundredweight of yarn! (more on that on friday.)
Super duper green Docs!
I got post on saturday morn:
Quills 12.75mm(US17) needles, very nice withthe tapery points.
I got these i cast on and my 10.30 on sunday i was wearing this:

yup a sweater in a day woo me
pattern yarn rowan chunky print, girly print

My daddy managed to procur me this...
A brother KH-950i electroknit machine! looks awfy complicated dunnit... which would be when some instructions would help, if anyone knows anything about it please get in touch!

I also got a book from the lovely Ms Glittr
hopefully it will mean I am no longer a crochet free zone!

I am the Fire..cracker?

Remeber this:
The firecracker fibre obtained at woolfest?

it doesnt look like this anymore...
At first i was gonna ply it but then i thot its busy enoug colour wise so just kept it as a single which meant i got more yarnyness:
Very full bobbin!!

Finished yarn
I'm not sure the colour is entirely accuarate in any of these, i think the last one is closest tho its possible a little on the bright side, problem with tryin to take photoes in the late evening sun

Anyway its 101g, 147.5 yds of i think mainly DK weight tho its mightily uneven, i have no idea what the fibre content is, as i was spinning i thot it was distictly ahem synthetic, now i have the finished yarn I'm less sure, answers on a postcard!

To top of my week my shiny shiny daddy made me this:
A shiny new swift! no more tangled skeins wheeeeeee
Note that i am using a ruddy great dewalt drill to wind the yarn, this is not the norm, usually i have a wee black and decker electric screwdriver with about an 8th of the power but it was charging...

Mail Spin

So i have got parcels this week first up
A spiffy vinyl sock bag made by Sue for me to beta test for her before she goes into mass production, so far so good, I will post a full review in due course

I also recieved a parcel from NM from the darling Sobe
She very kindly obtained this for me in order to knit a birthday pressie for a friend, also in the pacakage as well as a picture from her son and some stuff for mother was this:
From the ever viligant Artsy who is on a constant campaign to protect her fellow knitters from outbreaks of purple funfurflies and has sent out repellant to all.

I've also been spinning today got thru my little dod of tussah silk
Mardi Gras Tussah silk, 18g, 93 yds somewhere in a lace-sockweight i think just a single so it'll go further
The reason why there is a mummy and a baby skein was i thot i had finished and was going to photo it when i noticed some pieces on the back of the living room chair, I had left them there fter taking it with me to watch Lewis Hamilton get pole in the British Grand Prix (woohoo!) and forgot all about it!!

Which muppertry brings me to my exploits yesterday, i had one of those days...
First off on the train to work i was so engrossed in my book i nearly missed my stop only realising cos i happend to look up and thus had to make a dive off the train.
Then since it was friday and we were finished i got outta work a bit early and was at the station in plenty time to get the train so i sat in the waiting room ans read my book, what happened? i got so into it i looked up to see the train leaving the station!! (for anyone whose interested I'm reading Wicked! by Jilly Cooper)

Then at night i went to see my friend who is dog sitting and got well and trully lost trying to find where she was, she was at a relatives house, in a town i had never driven to or round and my googlemap directions were all well and good excpet that the streets didnt have names on them and seemed to chop and change, i eventually found where i was going 40 mins later by sheer blind luck!!

Oh well...

Woolfest!!!!

***PICTURE HEAVY POST***

So you have been warned


I went to the LAke District at the weekend to attend a wee event called woolfestI like the Lake District its pretty it was however also rather wet at timeMother looking cheerful despite the rain
there were many stops for cuppas
Including at the Cumbrian Pencil Museum (which is more fun than it sounds)

We went to somewhere I hadnt been before but wanted to see
Castlerigg stone circle constructed they think around 3000BC or summat along those lines twas very pretty nice views dowt valley
Oh that reminds me of a fabulous sign on the way up a hillside: "Tek care lambs ont road" yep a sign with a Yorkshire accent!!

So i suppose now you wanna know about woolfest eh?

Twas fabulous, most funtastic, lots of sheepies and shopping! I will try and get the breeds right but well my brain is a bit sieve like!
Manx Loaghtan Sheep, or as i like to call it devil sheepieTeeswater
ShetlandsWensleydale
Oh i dont know what half these are thus i give up! They are sheep ok



This one seemed to like my camera!

Now non sheep I know what these are
Llamas with which my mum had quite the rappore

Alpaca! looking at me with disdain


Angora Bunny with the funky lugs

So now i guess i should show you what i bought hey


Haul mine and mothersButtons, i love buttons


Regia Nations Colours, i like this is yellow

Regia Bamboo color, pretty



Silk Hankies for the spinning

A posty holdery thingy for a future cardi

Firecracker fibre, dunno exactly whats in it but its puerty

Addi turbos, a wee 12inch 2.5mm for the sockies and and a 2.5mm lace needle wooooo

Bright Dyes handpainted sock yarn, pretty pretty

some wee 2.5mm 10cm long Ebony DPNs for the socking, pretty

Susan Bates peg counter jobby have heard these are invaluable and since I've never seen em here afore i bought one!

Cygnet 4ply, its a little greener than it appears, the only thing so far with a plan, a birthday pressie for a babba

Silk/merino fibre

Same fibre, different colour

My bargain of the weekend, nearly 200g of sock yarn for 3 squid, should get 3 pairs of socks from that

Milk protein fibre, very silky





More Merino/silk


I also managed to fit in some knitting, mainly in the car and in the B+B got past the rather brain melting colour work of my pirate bag:

On the contest front, prizes have been secured, the format decided so more details soon soon soon...