The house papers are signed! Possession on the 22nd of October. I am very excited.
However since I promised some yarn pron, lets get right down in it.

Baby Belle (pattern by CosyMakes) Knit out of two different handspun yarns of mine, “Blue Ruin” and “SparkleMotion”.
Both handspun yarns are three ply navajo to keep the color from barber-pole-ing, I felt that would be best for the yarns I was making at the time.
Sparklemotion comes in at 8 wpi and Blueruin is getting 8.5. So I concider them a close match.
Sparkle motion is spun from a spinners salad from Golden Willow which is a 60/40 merino silk blend that I hand carded along with some nylon fibers for the “sparkle”, Blueruin is hand carded mohair locks (I know this because it made me a bit itchy) and romney also from the willow.


It’s going to be Zibbie’s birthday present, she’ll get it tonight at her party, I hope it fits and she likes it.
Since I appear to have been on a Cosy kick

This hat is from Cosy’s book “Knit One, Embellish Two” Which you can buy on her Etsy site autographed I messed around with the pattern a bit, I didn’t want it to go to a point so I went to a certain point and then do a three needle bind off. In the picture in the book the hat looks pointless, and that is the line I went for. I ended up getting this very slouchy big fluffy warm hat for the winter months.
That’s one of the great things about Cosy’s patterns, they are all good simple knits that allow for customization out the wiz-waz.
Not to be missed would be the spinning I have been up to

This is from my Joni Mitchell hand-dyed farm roving. Colorway “My Old Man”, I spun up all four ounces of this colorway and I’m glad I kept it for myself, It’s going to look so great as a hearty winter garment. And while it is warm out, the nights are cooling off and I really think it’s time to start the prep knitting for winter (I should probably get back to work on my andre scarf).
And not to be left behind, as soon as I cast off the Earth Maiden (by Ilga Leja which can be seen on her website in two different yarns) and got it all wetted and laid out for blocking, I felt the call to join the chant and start knitting The Aestlight Shawl.

I’m useing a varigated jewel tone Tofutsies and then a hot fuschia for the eyelet part then going back to the varigate for the edging. It should be interesting and bright, I forsee doing more of these in other colorways (possibly christmas presents) as the pattern is just so darn loveable.

Wow that was a lot of show and tell, and you know I’m not even done, but I am done for now, until I get around to taking more pictures. Upcoming will be Earth Maiden, possibly the progress on vilai, the lacy baktus in all it’s half finished glory, and possibly some more spinning.

Shirkin homework (or at least taking a break)

Oh blog, the homework clusterfuck from hell descended on me with a wallop. And while I trudge through it I decided to take a break to display what I’ve managed to accomplish in the interm (a lot can be done while visiting family and takeing time for ones spinning)

This here is the HungryforHandspun (from Etsy) in Cornucopia. It’s Ramboullet, and I have to say, this is my new fave wool, it’s soft and it spins so well. Like butter almost, and the colors. Well if you can’t tell by the throw on my couch, I’m really into these colors right now. Even if Yellow looks attrocious near me.

An overhead shot of the Bonnet I knit out of handspun (pattern in knit one embellish two by cosymakes). I used two different skeins and then did the embroidery (which is hard to take a good shot of let me tell you) on the solid colored side. I kind of really like the way it’s two toned, one side all crazy colors the other muted yet vibrant. It still needs a button and some strings but all in all I’m loving how it turned out.

Okay so you can’t see the embrodiery that well but I loved the look of this picture. I needed to just sit in the sun for a little while after spending a few hours pumping out 1/3 of the midterm that’s due thursday. I can’t wait to block this and get the final parts put on. Then I might just wear it until all the snow is melted.

February keeps rollin, and so do I… in ways.

The so goth it hurts handspun drying after being set. Since I had a bunch of woolies to wash and some stuff to block this also got thrown in. I’ve noticed that the roving I get from the willow tends to bleed a lot when I’m setting it, like crazy actually. I’ve made a note for other times I set things, Luckily enough it didn’t bleed onto anything just muddied the water like crazy.

This is the bonnet from cozymakes pattern, I have to wind the next ball that I’m useing to finish it because the first skein of handspun didn’t have enough yardage. It’ll look interesting when it’s done but I am okay with that. I started it while we were making our rounds yesterday to see the neicelings. Everytime I tell myself I have too many hats I go and make more… go figure.

The stephaine Japel Feminine Puff Sleeve cardigan. I’ve had issues galore with the math but having said that the fit is really rather good. I have to finish the second sleeve and the button bands and then it shall be ready for blocking and buttons. I don’t think I have the buttons I want for it yet, I’ll have to have a look around the apartment. Still it’ll be good to get something big for me done.

And of course what entry would be compleate without Andrew’s Chocolate sexy manly scarf. If Pam Greer was a scarf she would be this “my so called scarf” in a heathered brown, 100% wool. Quick easy and sure to please.