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Sock Summit Stashing

August 12, 2009 1 comment

I spent the last weekend up at Sock Summit with Kelly, Melissa and Alyse.  We had a great time.  I didn’t get into any classes, but I did do quite a bit of shopping.  There was so much more I could have bought, but I tried to keep my purchases down.  I tried to keep [...]

It’s a Fibery Fourth

July 4, 2009 3 comments

I decided to join the Tour de Fleece group over on Ravelry.  The idea is to spin every day the Tour de France rides, if possible.   It starts today, July 4th and runs through July 26th with a couple days of rest, July 13th and July 20th.  I figured planning to spin just about every [...]

Lots of goodies from Black Sheep Gathering

June 27, 2009 3 comments

I had a great time at Black Sheep Gathering last Saturday with Kate. There were no yarn purchases this year, but there was a lot of fiber purchased.  I didn’t have a huge fiber stash before, but now I’m fairly satisfied with my stash.  I’m going to post in the order of purchase.  I’m not [...]

Fiber Fun Day

May 10, 2009 No comments yet

Yesterday, Linda had us over for Fber Fun Day.  What is Fiber Fun Day? There was dyeing of fleece and fiber.   There was lots of spinning.   We had our own Fiber Bus full of fiber to try and buy.   For extra fun, there was drum carding.   I didn’t do any dyeing, [...]

Greens and Blues

April 13, 2009 1 comment

I decided to post about how I spun my fiber for the local spin-along that I mentioned in an earlier post. First, I decided to divide each of the colors in half by weight so that I had two piles with equal color amounts.  In each pile was 0.5 ounces of the blue and screaming [...]


On the Needles

Pattern: Self-Designed Colorwork Socks
Needles: US1.5 (2.5mm)
Yarn: Cherry Tree Hill Supersock Solids
Colors: Lime and Mulberry

Pattern: Alphablocks (Self-Designed Baby Blanket)
Needles: US4 (3.5mm)
Yarn: Knitpicks Swish DK
Color: Tidepool Heather

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