October 5, 2011

Today was a very eventful day. Weather wise it was dreary and gloomy and I loved every minute of it. Dad came and took me to Vincent's speech therapy. That was nice because it did not cut into Kenny's work schedule. The speech therapist said Vincent did very well for his first day. I am happy.

So back to the weather as soon as we got to Vincent's school it started raining up a storm and the wind was blowing really good. I love this weather. Tomorrow is our last day for rain and than next week back up to the 90's. BLEH That's all I have to say.

This morning I got up to go get the laundry out of the dryer and there was a very large black and white pitt bull in our backyard. I backed up went in the house and called animal control. The dog finally went back to his own yard. It knocked four boards out of our fence. Lovely huh.
Kenny went out there to see where it got in. The dog was back in his own yard but saw Kenny; barked and started coming towards him. We have a very large back yard and kenny was hauling tail in flip flops screaming open the door. I have never seen someone run so fast in flip flops lol. I told him not to go out there. Did he listen to me noooo. oh well. At least I got to tell him told you so. hehe.

Today I did not get much knitting done. Vincent was off the wall and would not take a nap.

I think that is about all that went on today.

just been spinning and knitting taking care of kids same ol same ol lol

here are some pics of my projects going on right now

armwarmers spun with fiber from Sosae Caetano's wonderful store




my coral fiber from Sosae's shop I just recently spun up. I still have to skein it up and set the twist. Vincent is modeling it as well.




and these arm warmers I am knitting which will be available for sale in my etsy shop soon. I am still working on the other one.


Vincent has that oh mom look on his face lol

well thats all for now. leave comments if you wish I love to get em.

October 4, 2011

I have not been spinning for the past couple days just knitting. It has been nice to be knitting again although it feels a little odd. I am not used to the feel of knitting needles in my hands. I am used to the motions that go with spinning yarn with drop spindles. So after a long while of not knitting it feels extremely foreign to me.

I am currently knitting up some arm warmers to go into my etsy store. They are made of Noro Silk Garden and are my own pattern. I will have a completed set tomorrow and will post pictures.

Today was an okay day mostly. I have given up the fight on making Vincent take a nap. I am tired of all the screaming and crying he does. All it does is make me mad and wake up his baby sister so she is grumpy because of no nap.

Tomorrow is Vincent's first day of speech therapy. It will be interesting to see how it goes.

back to knitting.

September 28, 2011

I am so happy that we are kind of on the downward slide to fall. I say kind of because it was 92 degrees today. sigh will I ever get to wear any of my winter knits. lol

I have been doing a lot of crafty things as usual. dyed up some yarn and some locks. I am going to card them together this Saturday at the lys.


fiber and my silk n silver yarn i spun this is going to be armwarmers i dyed these yesterday.




my angora locks I dyed yesterday as well. I am going to card them into this roving
I got my locks from


this is the fiber I am corespinning for Karen. there is 7 ounces of fiber there and it is going to be an awesome yarn.



the kids are getting so big. Vincent is going through a growth spurt again

here is Vincent checking out the rain last weekend. he was a little freaked out because of the thunder and lightening storm we had



her are some more pictures of the sky from that day



and a sunset



and a double rainbow you have to look kind of close to see the first rainbow



we have had more thunderstorms than usual this month.

I love it. looks like we have the potential for thunderstorms all day friday into saturday night and than rain next week 50 percent chance w00t!!!! and 75 to 80 on Wednesday awesome!!!!

here is Isabellie

I bet she is walking by Christmas


I am also knitting the hexipuffs quilt pattern from tiny owl knits. it is so much fun. she said you like knit on it for a year and than put it together.



well thats all for now will post more later.

today was just another day. Hung out at home with the kids because I am not comfortable driving my overheating car anywhere with the kids in it. I think it needs a new thermostat. I just finished watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire while plying my yarn.

here is my wizards weazely wheezes batt plied with a orange and black halloween batt.
it is 126 yards of yummy squooshy yarn.



here are the next two yarns I am going to be spinning and plying together

waterlillies for aquaman from knittink (on the left) and polwarth rainbow from knit by design




vincent still has his all these little bumps all over his body from his rash or bug bites which ever it is. hopefully they start going away soon. I think he had an allergic reaction to the peanut butter because I switched brands. well thats all for now. got to post before midnight.

Tour De fleece is almost here again. About 2 hours and 30 minutes before it starts.

I spun 15 yarns on my drop spindle last year my goal is to spin 20 yarns this year in between my spindle and my wheel. I will start spinning my first yarn at midnight and it will be fun can hardly wait. I will have lots of updates on my blog over the next fifteen days.

July 5, 2010


I have been doing a lot of spinning lately for Tour De Fleece. I had a fun weekend at ABC's of Creative Pursuits. I got to go play with Karen's acid dyes. It was a lot of fun. I definitely have to get my own acid dyes someday. It is a lot of fun to dye with them.

Fourth of July was a lot of fun. Good food and a good time with family. Little man had a good time and like to run around when the strobe fireworks were going off. It was funny.


well here is some pictures from what has been going on

these are pictures of illegal fireworks people in our neighborhood were setting off. pretty though


























































this is my tour de fleece day 1 and 2 accomplishments. 200 yards of lace of lace to fingering weight yarn. my hands are so sore from spinning. LOL

I will post more pictures later of some more hand dyed yarn and roving I did this weekend. They are drying right now. I also have some new little man pictures to post up as well. ttfn

here is my acid dyed cascade 220















I was still rinsing here.

Here she is all wound up















I used hot pink, purple, and teal jacquard acid dyes. So much fun. can't wait to do it again:-)

so I have been playing with the polymer clay as will as still knitting and spinning. I have my project for the phat fiber contest done the spinning that is i am submitting my tree frog merino from Corgi Hill Farms:



I am going to submit this for the spinning and than I am going to knit something from it maybe a mini clapotis ans submit that. should be nice.




stay tuned for more pictures in my next blog post and I will have some new products in my etsy store by mid September if everything goes as planned.
the pumpkins up top are going to be my phat fiber submission for this month if i get them all sanded and done. time to buckle down. let me know what you think please.