Her bag was packed...

and she was ready to go.

I sold my Ashford Traditional. Now I can order a jumbo flyer for my LadyBug. By selling my jumbo flyer and asking my family for a gift card to Paradise Fibers for my birthday, which they so nicely got, I have enough $$ to order the jumbo flyer today! Didn't have a use for the Traditional anymore so was able to make another spinner super happy by selling it to her.

This week's staycation line-up...I finished these socks last night...

Did some spinning with the drop spindle that my friend Emily gave me...the fiber is 100% Corriedale

and made pretty good progress on the Serenity Blanket. I'm well into the second ball of yarn.
Up next on the sock needles will be this Opal yarn from Rain Forest collection #2.

The Saint's stitches came out today so he's happy to be wearing his Crocs and socks now (he definitely doesn't care about fashion). On Wednesday we smoked a few salmon...

and of course LittleDog has to get his two cents worth in...

"I want equal time with that knitting, Lady!"

Thank you for stopping in to see what's up here. If you'd like to see what my fibery friends are up to lately hop on over to Wisdom Begin In Wonder and check out the blog circus for Fiber Arts Friday. Have a wonderful weekend!

Friday before vacation...

and I'm holding my breath. Can't wait to have the week off. Not sure I'll get much done with Franken Foot around the house but won't have to answer the alarm every morning for a week and that will be nice. Speaking of Franken Foot, he's progressing well...not as good as if he followed the Drs instruction and stayed off his feet but better than nothin. Some of the stitches came out today and more will come out next week. He's got a serious case of cabin fever but as of this date has not given in to my suggestion of learning to crochet...I'll have to work on him next week while I'm home :)

I've been doing a bit of knitting and thinking about spinning.  Here's this weeks knitting progress...

Serenity Blanket-top pic is most true to color

yes, it's another swatch - I think I got the row gauge pretty close this time

When I went to AGS to knit with friends on Tuesday I came away with some pretty awesome stuff.  Emily gave me a bottom-whorl spindle and Michelle gave me a braid of Yarn Hollow fiber that she wants me to spin for her. It was quite amusing to me since I had on a purple shirt that night too...

Well, I have to get back to tagging favorites over on Ravelry...I can't believe I had over 500 favorites and of course, they all needed tags. Now I can search through my favorite hats, sweaters, socks without having to go through all the other stuff that's in there. I'm sure I didn't need to tag all of them in on night but it just goes with my overly-organized tendencies. :)

Jump on over to Wisdom Begins in Wonder and see what some other creative peeps are up to.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Smooches from LittleDog and grand-dog Early!

FAF 8/31/12

Wow, Labor Day weekend is already upon us. It's been so blazing hot all summer I feel like I missed it. When you try to stay in the a/c all the time it doesn't leave much time to spend outside. We have had a couple of good fishing outings though. What was the most fun you've had this summer?

I've spent more time swatching this summer than in all the years I've been knitting. Perhaps it's the sign of my knitting maturity? I know that I don't want to knit another sweater that doesn't fit when I'm done. Only have to do that once to learn a lesson. So, here's my third swatch for the Eisen sweater...

This was knit with two different needle sizes, the dental floss is the dividing line (you may have to biggie-size the pic to see it) I've just knit the first row of the twisted rib segment. Hoping this yarn will give me the gauge I need.

There has also been a little progress made on the stripey sock. I had to switch to DPNs those circs were driving me crazy for some reason.

Last Friday morning The Saint had his foot surgery so he's been laying around the house looking at this...

I'm trying to talk him into learning to crochet so he can make some hats to give away this winter...stay tuned for any further developments...

One of the benefits of the big-ole-foot is that we've had take-out a couple times in the past week. One night we decided on Thai food and I added an order of Crab Rangoons, they not only looked good they were yummy too.

Hopefully you've all had a great week too. If you'd like to see what some other creative peeps have been doing lately hop on over to Wisdom Begins In Wonder and check out the Fiber Arts Friday posts.

Thanks for coming by, have a great week.

LittleDog says "getting plenty of sleep is very important to healing"

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don't you agree that he must be well healed? LOL

FAF 8/25/12

This post is part of Fiber Arts Friday. Be sure to check out all the creative folks that post over at Wisdom Begins In Wonder where Andrea is a fabulous hostess.

Hello! I'm so glad you stopped by. By the time this is posted I'll be hanging at the hospital with The Saint. He's having foot surgery and we have to be there at 7:40am... I better get my knitting packed up.

I hope you've had a great week and are looking forward to a fun weekend.

I've been knitting like a crazy person so haven't been spinning much. I'm knitting the heel flap on my second orange/red stripey socks,

I knit a swatch for a sweater I want to knit (yeah, yeah, no smarty comments about swatching)

and have done quite a few rounds on the Serenity Blanket. (worsted weight yarn on size 7 circs)

Last weekend I went to Michigan Fiber Festival...saw lots of fiber friends, beautiful yarn and fiber and some animals. Not sure why but I didn't take a single picture.  Here's the SwampThing I bought though...

Today I found two new projects I want to tackle some time soon...this and this.

This weekend is the big AQS Quilt Show here in town...hopefully I'll get a chance to get over there and check out all the pretty quilts (900 of them!). Can't imagine seeing all of them but I'd like to see a few.

What are your plans for the weekend? Any new knitting projects floating around in your head?

Whatever it is you're up to, I hope it will be fun!

Toodles!

I'm late but I'm here!

Whoa, this day snuck up on me and I have some nice pics to share with you this week. Happy Fiber Arts Friday to you all. Hop over to Wisdom Begins In Wonder to see what else is going on with some other creative peeps.

Sample Sock #4 for Yarn Hollow...

Could you send LittleDog some healing thoughts this next week please? He's having to take some big horse pills for a UTI and I know he feels tortured having to eat all this peanut butter, LOL

I'm off to the Michigan Fiber Fest tomorrow...hopefully I'll have some interesting festival pics to show you next week.

A cool rainy Friday...

Hello! Welcome to this week's edition of Fiber Arts Friday. I hope you find something pretty or interesting while you're here. Please be sure to leave a comment so I know you've visited. Then hop over to Wisdom Begins in Wonder to see all the other creative folks that participate in FAF.

Here is the finished Watermelon Crescent. I used almost all the handspun I had for this project and used the Jenny's Suprisingly Stretchy Bind-off for the finish. Here are linkies to a tutorial and a video version for those who want to learn this indispensible bind-off technique.

See how pretty...

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I decided to resist the urge to knit til I ran out of yarn and left off the last two rows. I don't think it's going to make any difference and I'm happy with the way it turned out. Now I'll have something to take to work and throw around my shoulders when the a/c is too cold.

A decision will have to be made whether I should put a button on it to hold it together or get a shawl pin. Opinions? I've never used a shawl pin so I wonder how annoying it would be with the pointy parts and all.

I'm leaning toward a button, since I have such a nice assortment of handmade, from The Delicion, buttons...

The Olympics have been playing every day at Chez B. The volleyball and boxing were great. Claressa Shields from Flint is kickin some ass! Which gives us hope for the sport of boxing in the Olympics...the men's judges sucked! There were so many interesting, more obscure, sports on early in the day I was getting up early just to watch them. Judo, fencing, white water rafting...and the two-man canoe race...that last one gave me a backache just watching it. LOL I hope you're all enjoying the games too.

I got the call Wednesday from my local yarn shop that the last couple skeins of Cascade Superwash I needed for the big blankie arrived. As soon as I finish this sock for Yarn Hollow I'll be heavy on the blankie knitting. I only have about 6 wks to get it done, wah!

Enjoy your week and I'll see you next Friday!

I'm such a poser!

It's like a new nose...

LittleDog would like to thank you all for the well wishes for his crusty nose. Just a couple days of salve application got it all fixed up.

Yay, no more crust!

don't adjust your sets...Mom doesn't know how to focus her iPhone

Today's post is part of Fiber Arts Friday, a blog gathering hosted by Andrea over at Wisdom Begins in Wonder. Pay her blog a visit and check out all the creative peeps that post there.

Several of you guessed right that the earbuds where covered with the remants of the Ugly Sock yarn. I'm already planning a different cover so you'll be seeing it soon, I hope.

I'm knitting on three projects at the same time...there will be no knitting boredom around here!  I knit about 8 more rounds on the Fascine Braid sock only to tink back 5 of them last night, ugh. 

I wasn't paying attention to the instructions as I was distracted by the Olympic Games.  I just can't get enough of that sports coverage. First time I'd ever seen Judo...still don't get it. And what's up with that little bitty table tennis table? Where's the rest of it? It's like miniature table tennis...almost expected to see a waterfall or a pirate ship somewhere.

The next big blankie project is underway...

pattern is Serenity Blanket and is available on Ravelry. Yarn is Cascade 220 Superwash, size US 7 needles. I'm just about to the point where I need to switch to circular needles. This is a beautiful blanket when done. I cursed the first one I made but it was totally my fault for watching NCIS while I was knitting.

I've gotten into the next color on the Watermelon Crescent Shawl. I'm hoping to have enough yarn left to finish but it may be a case of yarn chicken toward the end.

This ball of handspun is a bit smaller than a baseball...cross your fingers.

And for my friends who can't get enough of the pug...

and the glamour shot for the week...

pretty dang handsome, hunh? Mwah!