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it’s friday again, and of course that means fiber friday! this week the topic was critters (and i hope no one caught on, but this was a repeat. i didn’t realize it until after i posted it… but, well, we all need more critters, right?!) remember these ‘unicorn breath’ batts from the other day?… i was unable to keep my hands off them, and i figured; unicorn breath is ‘close enough’ to being a critter; at least it is critter-esque; right? (oh, a stretch you say? well, yea; but come on, humor me!)

unicorn breath
170 yards lace/fingering

• 40% recycled silk sari
• 35% vermont alpaca
• 20% hemp
• 5% nylon

(pretty textural due to the nature of the materials, but shockingly soft, even with the high hemp content.)
really pretty!

and another close up…
if you don’t already participate in fiber friday! a weekly fiber extravaganza i suggest you do, or at least add it to your bloglines. it is fun and inspiring! (and i recently started a photo pool on flickr)

i’m glad it is friday and not thursday. i hope i don’t have a “groundhog day” type day.
yesterday was ONE of THOSE days. the kind of day where once in a lifetime runs thru your head, over and over…. my kids were just off the wall. they don’t often make it so hard on me. by 3pm, you could have stuck a fork in me, because i was d.o.n.e. ~ i needed to retreat to the only sure fire, tried and true method of lowering my BP and catching some inner peace… knitting…

the yarn is some of my worsted handpaints, of seconds quaility… (i was trying for a choco bird but it didn’t come out good enough to put up on pippi)

one really nice/neat thing that happened yesterday…
josi sent this out in her news letter the gist, she is offering a coupon to her customers if they purchase something from pippi or croshay design! ~ (remember croshay made this awesome hat! from some of my hemp yarn??) anyway, my yarn was used in making some pieces for josi’s upcoming book, in the loop… let’s hope her new editor lets her keep it in there! (click on this linky to see the hat/scarf set from my yarn)

i’m going to try to keep it mellow today.
as soon as i stop this tap-tapping; i’m going to return to my knitting.
then dishes and pick up the joint a bit. SIL is in from oregon and i would hate to have her over come with dirty dishes when she walks in the shack.
♥

not a whole lot to report on in these parts.
i did get an excellent photo yesterday from croshay design that prompted me to update my
customer creations page… i have more work to do on it, i just need to find where i put the other photos i have. maybe later today the children will give me a chance to do it.

top to bottom:

1.
made by croshay from this here yarn. (bad photo of the yarn! it was one of those not possible to capture properly with a camera.)

not only is the hat sublimely perfect, and i am so very touched by what she said about working with it. when i hear and see stuff like this, it makes me feel like i’m doing something right.

she has more views up on her flickr. feel free to go tell her how much you lover it!

2.
from jenn at blue alvarez. for more of jenn’s awesome knitting patterns look here!

3.
from sharleen, designer of mmm-fruit

a wee bit of spinning, but not much, because, alas; my wool that was ordered over 2.5 weeks ago is still not here.
(i’ll refrain from ranting about them)

total tink

because my pal tender inside wanted to see a coil with think in the whole thing…

spring is supposedly here, but i’m NOT buying it!
it is freezing (or should i say, well below freezing; today…)