Blog Blahs over?

I believe "blog blahs" are contagious, and I've contracted it from Sue who suffered from it, but recovered quickly, and so did I. There's just too much to show.

I LOVE Fall, and all it's colores. This year though it's a lot warmer than usual, but still the fall colores are already there. Now you'll find me more outside and enjoying it too.

I've been knitting of course, after the Braided shawl was done, I was so very ready to knit little things, things I've been wanting to knit for a long time. Like this very spicy Beethoven Dickey.

I made it with the yarn I dyed with turmeric. The Dickey pattern is from Elizabeth Zimmermann. It's very easy to knit and I like this version with the stretchy garter stitch neck, because I can't stand close things around my throat, but this expands easily.

My son asked, if I wanted to knit a Pullover and had run out of yarn? I think it's a wonderful idea.

Sam seems to like the turmeric taste. One can smell it very faintly (for human noses), but he started to like the bip right away.

I love the color of this big neck warmer. The yarn is Knit Picks Bare, worsted weight, and I needed just a little over one skein. It's a pity really, because now I haven't got enough for the mittens I wanted to knit with the second skein. I wanted it pure with no other colores mixed, but have to rethink this now.

This is an adult sized Dickey. I've tried to find a better way to do the decreases, and even frogged several attempts, but nothing looked better than E.Z.'s method. I think she wrote down the instructions for the best result already.

On the spinning front, there's this 190yds skein. I didn't care for the colores very much, so I tried to mix them up real good and spin a little thicker than normal. It turned out 2-ply "thick'n thin" yarn, because it's not my best spinning ever. The break I took was too long, and even though you'll never forget how it goes, you need practice to produce even yarn.

Wound into a ball does nothing for this yarn. I'm curious how it will look knit up.

It's 4oz of Shetland wool, which I LOVED to spin. It's so easy, and soft to spin and I will definitely buy more of this fiber in the future. That's so fun about being in a Fiber Club with monthly installments. You get to try out different fibers, so you know what to buy and what not to buy in the future.

This one was called "Celebrations" and was the July installment of the Spunky Eclectic Fiber Club.

I've got more to show you, but that will have to wait for another post. I've got my Fiber for September in the mail today, and I have to take pictures of it before I tear into it. But my batteries are recharging as we speak. Nothing prepared me for the wonderful colores of this month fiber, it's just wonderful. You'll see. And there was another surprise in the mail too. Stay tuned!

PS It's driving me crazy, that this post is so willy nilly, but that's not what I see before I click 'Publish Post", it looks all fine on my screen, but the real post is all mixed up. Sorry about that.