a fiber day

Today was a good day to play with fiber. There was half of a batt of purple hand dyed fleece left to spin, so I finished that. I tried a little core spinning in some spots which gave it a little texture. After I finished spinning I felt like throwing a bunch of fibers on the drum carder mixing it with some chenille yarn bits. It came out a little light so I repeated the whole process and made two batts which I'm setting aside. I plan to practice a little core spinning with a batt that hasn't sold on my etsy shop. It's called Garbage picker, named that because I used the little pile of  fibers that I clean off the drum carder. It's rather ugly, but will be interesting to see what the yarn will look like. Maybe I'll name the new batt Celebrate or Party time. (^_^)

crochet on the go..

Yes it's been a while. I finished a couple of hats that I forgot to take photos of and remembered after I mailed them out. One was a Jayne Cobb hat in red and black for a friend in Alaska and the other was a black wizard hat for my son. After it was knit I sewed a Gryffindor patch onto it. Maybe my son will send a picture of him modeling it.
As you see in the photo I have started a new project. I think it looks totally 70's. I didn't think the yarn would look like that when just seeing it in the ball. The pattern im using is my pattern LittleBlackShrug. I plan to change it up a little and make it more a daytime shrug that you could wear to the mall or a lunch to the zoo, etc. I'll give more details later on. 
Florida is slowly heating up. Spring is on it's way in the rest of the country which means thinking of summer knitting and crochet projects. I have my eye on a few things I would like to make and will post them as I start them. (^_^)

2 silly hats

 It's been a while since I last blogged so I'll play a little catch up. The boys are getting bigger of course. Jayden recently got a big boy hair cut and looks so cute. Micah is now 2 months old and over 12lbs. I got to baby sit them the other night. Both of them went to sleep. hehe. Since I last blogged I've made two silly hats for the boys and then our weather got warm.. like around 80 degrees. I guess it's the thought that counts. I'm starting to like making these little hats. I also finished a flower pot holder for my daughter... I have yet to mail it. She moved into a new apartment and wanted some new dishrags and pot holders. Hopefully I'll mail them out this week. The last picture is of my son wearing his Jayne Cobb hat in not so Jayne Cobb hat colors. He said it's pretty warm. He visited me the second week in January and enjoyed the warm weather and the parks.
My next small project will be some wizard hats. After visiting the Harry Potter Theme park you just have to have a wizard's hat of your very own. (^_^)

The small stuff

 Can you believe I'm still knitting Christmas gifts. Two more gifts were finished this week. I have family visiting right now and have been visiting the theme parks and the local zoo with them and relaxing at night watching movies and knitting. Yesterday we went to the Harry Pottern theme park and drank lots of Butterbeer and rode all the rides and then came home and watch Harry Potter movies. Such fun!!
I still feel like I haven't recovered my knitting mojo. I'm inching my way through each project. I've been looking at everyone's finished project on ravelry hoping to get inspired. Until then I will continue to make small projects that are easy to finish.

Just a little hat

Little by little I'm trying to get my knitting mojo back. Making little fast projects that I can finish without much effort is probably what I need to do right now.
I finished this little hat for Cameron. His mom wanted a pointy hat and that is what this started out as and some how had a mind of it's own. I used up some scraps from other projects and still have lots of yarn left over. This pattern is super fast to knit and can probably be knit in a few hours. This will fit a 2 to 4 year old.
Needle size : 11 us
Yarn: Wool-ease thick and quick
Pattern: Teo Hat

The Holidays are over .. it's a new year

 There were cookies and presents and children and food and just good times this holiday season. There were also a lot of shoppers and extra hours and not too much knitting time. This is the first year I only finished 3 knitted gifts. I lost my knitting mojo!! Fortunately I purchases a few more than usual.. not to many though. Well the holidays are over and business hours have returned to normal and I'm hoping for energy to finish up a few more knitted gifts. I have some beautiful batts I would like to spin up and some beautiful knitting patterns that have been calling me.. after a small rest period I plan to jump in and start creating again. I hope everyone had a lovely Holiday and will have an even better New Year. I still can't believe it's 2011!!

One of my recently finished gifts is a Jayne Cobb hat for my son. He loved the first one I made him but wanted it in different colors without a pom pom so he could wear it under a hood. A pretty simple project that took me longer than it should have.. but hey it's finished.

to the shop!!

 I finally got around to listing new items in my esty shop. It's TheHoboKnitShop if you didn't already know. Some lovely little fiber batts and fabric knot necklaces were added. Take a look. Run little hobo!! (^_^)