so much finishing to do..

Today is a day of finishing up.. I probably wont finish this baby sweater today. I'm going to try to add a couple more inches. I need to knit 4 " from the under arm and then knit the edging. This was knit all in one piece and the sleeves were knit in the round to the finishing is minimal on this. Next on the list of finishing today is this zip up sweater. All the knitting is now finished and all that is left is the sewing.. There is quit a bit of sewing though.. Then last on the list is plying my skein of yarn. I liked the singles but I'm not liking the yarn plied as much... Oh well.

a day off..!!

Yay I have the day off today. I was supposed to have yesterday off too and I had so many plans. I was going to wrap up all my Easter gifts and have them ready to send out in the mail today. I had planned to finish this sweater that I'm knitting for my son and I'm on the last inch of the collar. There is just the front edging left and the finishing. I was going to do all the laundry yesterday ( because I worked 7 days and just about wore all my clothes)... Because I had planned to get all that done yesterday .. I was going to mail out my Easter gifts today.. Well all that didn't happen. Late Tuesday I got a call from a coworker asking if I could cover her shift because her baby sitter was unable to watch her son.. There was no one else that could do it.. so I said yes. It was an early shift so I thought well I can still do all my stuff in the afternoon.. As I was walking out the door ready to head home I checked my phone and my other job had called and left messages.. so I listened and 2 people called out.. there was not one else available to help with closing the store.. so I drove home, ate and ironed my pants and ran out the door to job #2... I guess that was that... So today I basically have to do all the stuffed I planned to do yesterday that I didn't get to do.. and some. So much for sending out the Easter gifts .. doing all the laundry and cleaning up seem to be the order of the day. I'm just about finished with laundry and plan to finish spinning my little sample yarn.. I would like to finish the sweater too. Thats next on the list. Little Abby is having her 3rd birthday in May and I just purchased the cutest pattern for a little sunflower and lady bug knit doll. I can't wait to finish everything up and start making them.






















Some fluffy alpaca fleece I'm going to spin up just to get rid of it.. and I just couldn't help spinning some of the fiber I orded from etsy.com the other day.. I might ply it with a natural color.. I don't know yet..

more goodies.!!!

I finished spinning the last of the mill ends last night. I used up some of the shorter ends spinning singles in a medium weight. In the next picture are my goodies that just arrived in the mail from my etsy shopping binge. I bought a new WPI /orifice hook and 4 + ounces of hand painted corriedale wool. The wool is from sunset fibers and the hook from aspinnerslair. Both items are very pretty..Now I can gauge my yarn a little better. (^_^)

The spindles I just purchased were also from etsy.com. The seller is ghstworks if you want to take a look.

thick and thing..

I'm spinning up the rest of my mill ends but trying for a bulky yarn.. or maybe I'll just use it as a single. I don't know yet. I kind of like it better thicker too. This will be good practice for a more even thicker yarn.

















Every day I spin a little on my new spindle.

















Here is the finished product. A total of 558 yards.. brown sheep mill ends at about a sport or dk weight . (below are all the books I don't have time to read. They have been sitting on my night stand forever.

not again..

This is the last skein I planned to spin of the mill ends. If I spin more it will be thicker because all the rest are short lengths of fiber. With the 2 skeins I ended up with 558 yards. I have no idea what I would like to use it for yet. I bet you are glad I finished so you don't have to see it again. hehe

















The last few days I have been making some necklaces after work in the evenings. One for each outfit. (^_^)

a spinning binge !!

OOO dear.. I'm on a spinning binge. With all the knitting projects I'm trying to finish I can't keep my hands off the fiber. On the wheel is the fiber that resembles a skunk. I'm almost ready to ply skein #2. On the red spindle is the wooly mammoth. This is a raw alpaca fleece I got a while back that I wasn't exactly happy with it. It was mostly skirting and it was supposed to be "clean". After much teasing and two washings it still has a traces of veggetable matter and some twigs. The color isn't what I expected either. Well any way.. I'm going to see if I can spin up a few skeins and be done with it... I love the spindle by the way. That makes spinning something I don't really like actually a pleasure. The picture down below is more of the falkland top that I received as a sample... I'm going to have to purchase some of that now. It's gorgeous. It has such a pretty sheen after it's spun...

small pleasures

Today is a day of small pleasures. I received my drop spindles today and I immediately dug into my fiber stash and had to try them out. Of course I had to try that new sample of fiber I just got with my fiber order and all I could say is wow..!!.. This spindle spins for ever and is light enough to spin almost thread like yarn...This fiber has a lot of shine once spun and is really pretty and silky.



















Yesterday I ran into Michaels to get some crimping beads and more beading wire to finish some projects and I saw these and just had to get them.. After I'm done playing with my new spindles and fiber I will be beading away..