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I’m giving blogging a go today, even tho bloglines is terribly hysterical.
I know it isn’t just me, so I feel less like a lunatic. If I’ve missed something important of yours, I’m sorry. Not everyone is showing up when they update & bloglines is randomly deciding who has posted 10 times in 5 minutes!! (The first day it started happening, I really thought everyone was going post crazy!)
Things have been busy here, with a side of crazy. (So, normal.)
I’ve been dyeing a bit, spinning a bit & knitting a bit.
Last time I wrote, I had mentioned some FOs.
Shorty socks (that took way too long!)

US size 3s with hand dyed sport weight.(80% wool, 20% nylon)
and since I have issues with project monogamy,
Hemp head

I had put a brim (or 3!) on this one, but wound up ripping it off, each & every time.
US size 8 & 10.5,
Double moss stitch with ribbing
Handspun, bulky+ weight, 60% wool, 40% hemp!
It’s pretty squishy, how I wanted it, hence the double moss stitch.

Since I’m on the subject of FOs I thought I would share Rock star Kay Stanton’s Fo’s with my yarn.

They are for sale over on Pancake Meow.
It is fun seeing my yarn worked up, especially this color shifting one

Time for more coffee, getting eldest off to school & start winding yarn for Friday’s shop update. (I learned my lesson 2 weeks ago, having to wake up at Way Too Early O’clock to wind yarn (and wind, and wind, and wind.)
♥

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…)