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some knitting, some spinning and coffee oh my!
i’ve had some ideas brewing the past few days; and i really got sucked into it.

i took this here yarn (you may recall these batts?)
and swatched..

5 sts/8r 2 inches
(yes, a smallish swatch; but i wasn’t concerned with gauge, i was more concerned with feltability.)

it felted well enough, but the beauty of that small single really got lost.
i had planned on using that pink yarn with this

(that was my
gingham roving ~i bet you are sorry now that you didn’t snatch it up. haha.)
anyway. back to the drawing board with that time suck. (there actually isn’t a drawing board, or even a list on some scrap paper for that matter… and i wonder why i’m always so scattered!)
i do have some plans for those two yarns. yes, yes i do.

something else i’m working on…. just a peek; since it is going to be a gift; and although, i’m pretty sure the giftee doesn’t read this here blog; i’d like to be on the safe side.

that is some bulky 2 ply hemp yarn that i made this winter, that never got put up in the shop for whatever reason.

the heat was pretty intense yesterday. so once M got home from work, we proposed going swimming. (at the same lil’ swimmin hole that bells nearly drowned at on monday) we were both shocked and amazed that she was up for it and excited! she is amazing that gurl of mine.
when we were on our way out the door, i noticed a package in our mud room.
i had matt grab it since my arms were choc-fulla-babies. i started the car and we headed out; while driving down the street, i had him open it up for me… (because, of course, my hands were at 10 and 2, lol.) anyway my eyes welled up with tears when out came
.
sheep thrills!

now, boogie sends packages here frequently.. (i AM the luckiest gal on the planet!) and she mentioned something the other day about sending out a box to me; so i really thought nothing of it.
i must have totally looked past the word “fragile” (hum! it must be italian!) written in red all over the box.

i was so taken by emotion! i had just been mentioning over on Dee Anne’s blog; how much i was (and had been for a while now.) coveting one. this was so over the top generous of amy, as the maine fiber frolic is coming up, and i know her mug stock is WAY LOW! if you can’t make it to the frolic to drool over her stuffs; you can check them out right here. (she has bunnies, alpacas, and even cats!)

i hung it here last night, with the rest of the clean dishes in the house
.
(yes, note, there is only one pan, one lid and one clean spatula..i am not a fan of washing dishes.)

i was able to start my 35 year on this planet off in freaking grand style!
this thing is HUGE! i’ve often thought it odd that amy would say she was over caffeinated on two cups of coffee.
good lawd! two cups of coffee in this mug is a POT of coffee… no freaking wonder!
here it is in it’s natural habitat this morning…..

that is an 8+ ounce ball of yarn sitting next to it…
BEST.BIRTHDAY.GIFT.EVAH!

so, you didn’t have time to shop for my birthday?
you can remedy that by going here!

it also happens to be sam’s birthday!!!!
so give us both a gift!

♥

or chocolate… or deep fried and covered in chocolate. humm, fried ice cream covered in chocoate; a few cheesecakes? it is friday after all..
speaking of it being friday and all. i haven’t posted in fiber friday in a while…
but it was my topic, friendship. i posted it while getting set to go to NHSW to meet boogie in the fleshes.
so, i was feeling overcome with love, happiness, and excitement.

it was the yarn i was spinning in this here post
those descriptions are in italics because some boob went around dissing other people’s yarn. for no other reason than he has some stick up his ass wouldn’t spin yarn like that; or something… whatever gets you thru the day, i suppose? whatever makes you feel better about youownself? hurt all the people you want to? jealousy is a terrible monster, and it will eat you alive.
so, this week, it became multifaceted for me. (as it often does…)
rule #1 of friendship… have your sister’s back.

the third layer: of this onion of a friendship yarn, last week i met with some of my old friends, that i hadn’t seen in 8 years.

fourth layer: recently finding sam online and finding out that she is friends with the awesometacular purlewe the whole 6 degrease of separation thing blows my mind. (see i went to the same HS as slockwoo and we had recently been chatting via myspace, without realizing we had a mutual friend.)

i feel as if the universe is trying to tell me something. so that is why i’ve been mentioning

sam’s climb at every given opportunity. (haha! see, i just did it.)
if every person she ever knew, met or touched, could come out of the woodwork, she would by far surpass her goal.

fifth layer (or is it layer 4.5?):
everyone who has entered the words “bury the dragon” in my site’s checkout!
THANK YOU! (thank you for actually reading my newsletters, ha.) but seriously~!
thank you for taking the time to read about sam, and about HERA. thank you for making your own donations, thank you for forwarding it onto your friends and family. just, thank you. really. it warms my heart.
the final layer of this onion, this yarn is being shipped out to someone i’ve known only online for the past, nearly, 5 years. back in the hipMama days??

so, ogres, yarn, and friendship, all apparently are like onions.
but cake has layers, too…. ummm, cake.
but, i wonder, what exactly the universe is trying to tell me.. yea, it isn’t quite clear to me yet.

♥

the shop has been updated!

with both handspun and handpainted sock yarn

i’ve added 3 handspun bulky thick and thin singles

3 extra special blends, all including angora! and 2 with special rare breed wool.

1 bulky 2 ply

and three new colorways of handpainted superwash sock yarns.

you can view everything in the shop using this link or you can see everything that is new

i hope you enjoy!

also, our friend samantha, a knitter, an artist, a cancer survivor; is
doing a “climb for life” for HERA women’s cancer foundation. we would
like to help her reach her goal of 7K.

so when you check out, enter the words “bury the dragon” in the
comments and $5 of your purchase will go to ‘team bury the dragon’

click on the link to learn more about samantha, HERA, her climb, or to donate.

i’ve been pretty quite the past few days, yes.
life has been pretty full, you know the drill.

i’ve managed to get just a wee bit of spinning and dyeing done. (along with slowly processing my new fleece)
i needed to re-do hester due to a cart mishap, where my cart let two people buy the same yarn at the exact same minute! (i thought zen cart was supposed to solve that issue?… humph!) anyway, the reicipient is pleased with the new version, so yay.
since i’m into purples and browns i made a distant realitive of hester, in a handspun.

nellie
96 yards
bulky thick and thin.
apricots, purples, browns with hints of blue and pink.

and i did some CPR and brought back choco bird.

choco bird, 2ply
186 yards of bulky goodness.

i’m still waiting on some other stuff to get dry, but mostly it has been a rather unproductive week.

although, i did create a flickr group for fiber friday.
go join!

and i do have something awesome to pass on.

a friend, a knitter, a cancer survivor, is doing a climb for life,to raise money for HERA women’s cancer foundation.
from now until the day she climbs enter the code “bury the dragon” in the comments field when you check out at pippikneesocks and i’ll donate $5.

clicky to learn more and make your own donation.

i think that is about it from me, apparently my ass has a silent alarm on it, and it alerts the children as to when i am sitting.

♥