Busy busy busy...

Lots of pictures today...

First..I made a little felted bag out of some of the fisherman's wool I dyed with Kool-Aid a few months ago.



pre felted with The Liam for size comparison.


blocking on an ice cream bucket.



Voila!! Finito!

I also got my mittens from a mitten swap that I was involved in. This was a "spin your own yarn and make mittens swap"

Here's what I got.



Ellen from WI sent me purple mittens!! And a bonus hat!!


Check out the cute cables!!

Last, but certainly not least!! I got RAOK'd yesterday. Tama sent me a lovely candle and a tiny little 2005 calendar. The card is adorable too!



A lovely day all around.

Well well well, I seem to be a spinner too

*grin* I took some photos of the Llama fiber that I'm spinning.



Here it is on the bobbin of my trusty babe wheel. The colors in the llama fleece(?) vary from a very deep black to a grey color and they look really neat as they are spinning up. I have noticed that the llama fiber wants A LOT of twist. It's kind of like silk in that regard.



Here is what I've done on my drop spindle. I took this with me to The Topher's speech therapy on Thursday and one of the other patients (its a big general therapy place) was fascinated with it. I wished I'd had another spindle with me and I would have let her give it a go. She said that she thought that yarn was made by machines. *grin* I told her that yes, most commercial yarns now adays are made by machine, but this is the way that yarn was made before the invention of machines. She thought it was cool. This lady was, I would guess, in her mid 60's.

A friend of mine gave me a bag of silk noil. I'll probably start spinning that when I get done with this llama. (if I don't call the llama lady and ask for more)

My daughter's FO

Here it is in all it's glory.



I'm really proud of her. It took her forever, but she did a good job. We'll see what she decides to do next.

(oh..and I don't know why her eye looks all funky and what that round dot is on the photo - ghost maybe?? LOL)

Yeah..you can tell me I suck.

Sorry for the lack of posting. Been a tad bit depressed the past couple of days *coughcoughbuckfushcoughcough* Not to mention I have a geograpy paper due on Tuesday AND an english paper. I also registered for the spring semester on Tuesday. Subject to change: Intro to Art, Literary Appreciation, Statistics, US History II (I think that's everything after the civl war).

I am excited about one thing. My daughter had her first FO this week!! She knitted a scarf from fun fur. She even wore it to school today. I didn't have time to take a photo of her this morning so hopefully I'll take one of her this afternoon when she gets home.

I have decided that I love spinning Llama fiber. It's so soft and yummy. I know I'll be sad when this fiber is all gone, but at least I know where to get some more. :)

Things are a bit bleak on the money front, so I won't be able to send out any RAOK's other than ecards for a few weeks. I hate being broke. I think that I would love to open a yarn store here. There is one, but it is waaaaaaaay north of the town on the outside of town. I think that if there was one more centrally located it would do well. I love the ladies at the other store, but it's just so far to get there. Another pipe dream I 'spose.

Dear Texas Republican Party

Please quit calling me.



I did it already, calling me 6 times over the weekend will do no good. No matter who I voted for, I can't go back again. Thank you.

Weekend recap

Here are my little goblins.



Three Musketeer, Frog, Grumpy Teenager (oh..wait...is that a costume??) *snicker*

We carved punkins.





And I knitted a shawl.



I wish that it wasn't rainy and gross outside, because this photo doesn't do the colors justice.