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It’s been a while since I’ve had glitter on my crafting room floor. I forgot about the joy that is pixe dust.
We now have two new mei ties. We’ve been needing one with the new kid and the other one was falling apart so I figured I might as well make 2 new ones. They both have rad stencilled wings on them. Picts to come.
My computer table is covered with knitting for Christmas. Because Christmas ALWAYS comes on the 25 of dec. And I wait unitl November to get started. *rolls eyes.*
Never mind the swaps I’ve got to get out the door.
Looks like I forgot the stylus for my palm downstairs again. Going to have to use a knitting needle….

These have been done for a bit but it’s the first time I’ve had more than 2 minutes to myself.
It started when I tried cleaning up some of my fiber stash. I had some little bits of stuff. I also had some bits from a day of koolaid dying. I threw them in a box, mixed them up, and ran them through the drum carder.

Then I spun them up pretty bulky. I was originally heading to the uber bulky art/novelty yarn, but it just went bulky. And thats ok.

in progress, oh look, it’s tiny’s legs! What a big helper…..

one of the moms at play group has a ball winder and umbrella swift. Now I have a swift and hands and that’s usually how I roll. My balls. I mean….. nevermind. But that day I decided to spoil myself a little and let her use her winder. Though I shouldn’t have done it AT play group, there were a LOT of fingers in my yarn and a number of unhappy critters when all the fun toys were put away. Ah, the trials of the under 3 crowd. 8-P

I can’t find my notes at this moment, but I know I spun up 4 oz- two 2 oz skeins. Neither skien yielded more than100 yrds. I did up one 2 oz skein and then realized I was going to need more if I was going to make some mittens. SO now, of course, I have extra. Maybe a hat for the baby?

I had a spinning epiphany. I’m only sharing this because my husband convinced me to, I almost feel silly about this discovery. Taking a nod from the novelty yarn folk, I plied this with sewing thread. I had some fancy green rayon machine embroidery thread kicking around here that I used. It worked REALLY well. The thread holds together those undertwisted bulky spots. And it gives you your full yardage- no splitting your yardage to ply. Nor did I max out my bobbins. I did this with another skein, picts to come, and now I’m totally hooked.

Someone please tell me that they found that useful.
So as I was finishing up the yarn, my munchkins and I decide we are going to walk to go pick up dad from the bus stop. It’s a walk through open space so tiny can play with dirt and rocks, two of her most favorite toys. Erm, it’s fall. In Colorado. It’s cold when we go get daddy. Tiny needs a hat. And mittens.

The hat pattern was from the One Skein Wonders book, with some modifications (like not reading the instructions correctly and making it too long…..). The mitten pattern is here. Tiny loves them. And they keep her warm. (as you can see we are about to go for said walk.)

And it’s time to put down all my silly projects and work on CHRISTMAS. Ok Christmas comes at the same time every single year. Why do I wait until thanksgiving to work on presents?!?!?!?!?!?!?

So much for project monogamy with Dave’s gloves. I took them to church and worked on them while The Dave drove (rare occurrence) and got one done. Tweaked the pattern a bit, and started on the other.

Then got distracted. I was trying to clean up my crafting studio some and decided to make some ‘kitchen sink’ batts. And then with the resulting yarn I made Tiny a hat. It’s been cold and we are trying to walk more. And since her hands got cold and I still had more yarn I might as well make her some mittens. They are almost done. And I need some sort of head cover too. So I started spinning up a batt I had purchased.

And then I finally started decorating my belly casts.

I think this is the biggest reason I don’t like and probably won’t use Ravelry. Aside from the fact that I do more (oh way much more) than just knit, I’m way to free spirited to have things ‘in cue’. I work on what I want, I change my mind when I want, and sometimes I go some complete other direction.
Now Craftster.org. That’s where I hang out. It’s all there. ALL of it. I love it.