i've mentioned my fabulous friend blair before, but i've not mentioned the amazing collection of fingerless gloves she's knit up:
bam! pow! isn't she amazing?!? (and adorable?!?)
blair was my muse as i set out to make myself a pair of fingerless gloves...
i used some handspun i spun up a couple years ago and jeanne stevenson's 75yd malabrigo fingerless mitt pattern (rav link).
the grey gloves have the little patches so i can use them with my phone...
thank you blairsey for the inspiration!!
-melissa
it's a different week, but the view's the same:
and no, that's not the same snow from last week. this is new snow that arrived just this afternoon!
the weather's been all over the place this week, as has my crafting. (now that's totally a segue worthy of the local news!)
i've been spinning:
i dusted off my dear blankie and have been mitering away:
and then to satisfy the voice saying, "blankie will never end and i need a quick-finish project," i cast on this cowl with some of my handspun:
so there you have it. we just keep on keepin' on over here...
-melissa
and surprisingly enough, it wasn't me!
lily spent all last week spinning like a girl obsessed! in a few short days she spun up almost all of the fiber she got at last year's sheep and wool festival!
she's now searching ravelry's database looking for patterns to knit up all her handspun!
-melissa
one of my goals for this year is to make time for spinning. it seems that if left to my own devices i get into a spinning frenzy about once or twice a year and spin like a woman possessed, then the rest of the year i just ignore my spindle.
in an attempt to temper my obsessive tendencies, i wanted to make time each week/month (this isn't a formulated schedule at this point, more of a high-minded idea) to do a reasonable amount of spinning.
it's taken me until almost the end of march to implement my plan, but no sense in looking back, there's no time like the present, and all that.
this fiber is from four crows farm, 100% corriedale, colorway hexnut. i bought it at the cat and crow in mt. horeb, wi when we had our wisconsin sandwich meetup last fall.
so many beautiful colors, all worked together... such a joy to spin!
i'm looking forward to continuing to spin, in a responsible, reasonable time frame!
-melissa
lily's shopping haul:
my shopping haul:
now we both need to get those spindles a-spinning!
-melissa
usually i forget to take a "before" picture when i'm spinning and end up with an "in progress" shot instead.
but the other day i actually had my act together and remembered to snap a photo before i began spinning! so i present to you - the before:
and the after:
-melissa
i spun two skeins of yarn earlier in the month, but it was only today that i got around to taking some photos to share with y'all.
i have probably an hour of finishing work left on my muddy baby sweater, and then my hands are itching to get back to spinning for a bit.
-melissa
joining up with ginny at small things for the weekly yarn along.
this week finds me spinning up some very sheepishly lovely fiber from smokey mountain fibers. it will be for the back of my handspun logcabin cushion cover, but as i was spinning last night my mind was a whirl (pun totally intended) with ideas and things i wanted to spin up. so it's fair to say i may have recaught the spinning bug.
and reading.... ah i have finally climbed aboard the hunger games bandwagon! brian and i are reading this together (which means he reads out loud while i knit or spin, as the case may be) and we just began last night. he actually gave me the book for christmas but we had to (a)finish listening to dance with dragons (b)listen to the final book in the inheritance cycle (c)have a addictive marathon viewing of the first season of game of thrones and now with all that out of the way we are ready to dive into the hunger games. when we finish the book maybe we'll go on a date and see the movie!
-melissa
while lindsey was visiting she asked to see my spindle, and as i got it out i realized that i couldn't remember the last time i had used it! the fiber i was spinning i had started waaaaay back before leaving for claire's wedding in october!
i made a point of making time to finish that braid of roving last week.
i named her peachy-green jelly bean (and i thought of rizzo from grease every time i said it). she's 196yds of 100% handspun corriedale.
i seem to keep forgetting how much i like to spin! i need to be more conscious of making time to spin. because goodness knows, if i was left to my own devices i might just ripple away until the end of time.
i don't know if you remember or not, but back when i first began to spin i started making a log cabin rectangle with all the little skeins of yarn i was spinning up. i've kept adding to it from time to time and have managed to create a decent sized rectangle.
it's reached the point where i need to decide what i'm going to do with it.... claire had suggested making a cushion cover. i thought this was brilliant and so my next spinning project is going to be spinning up this natural fiber from smokey mountain fibers on etsy to make the backside.
can't you just almost smell the sheepy goodness?!?! oh i can't wait to get my hands in there and start spinning!
-melissa
ps - a while ago rachel asked how luna was doing because i only seem to post pictures of my cats. so today when i was outside photographing yarn/fiber i decided to get rach a picture of luna. turns out luna's scared of my camera and wouldn't come near me.... so i just zoomed in as far as i could and this is what you get:
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