Celebration!

Before anything else, and before I forget, I wanted to thank you all for your commends on my Morning Surf Scarf! It was overwhelming! Thank you so much! ;o)

This is Spunky Eclectic fiber of July "Celebration". I didn't like the colores, even with the orange in it. The fiber is Shetland, which was very nice to spin with. This was a little careless spun, because of the color, and produced ~ 190yds of worsted weight yarn, with thick and thin places. Not my best.

Fascinating though is, that you'll never know how the knitted fabric will turn out, and I must say, I'm somewhat reconciled with this "Celebration". I wanted to make full grown mittens, but didn't know if there would be enough for a pair, so I played it save and made some fingerless mitts.

They turned out a little big, and I DID a swatch, measured my hand to make them fit perfectly, but I guess the uneven spinning is to blame. So I thought I'll felt them by hand, just a little. They didn't shrink enough though.

They'll do fine though. I like the cuff longer, 2inches is never enough, I made 3 inches. Would have done more, but wasn't sure of the yardage. Anyway, they are done, the yarn is out of the way, and you can never have enough mittens around here.

This little tea pot is my husbands. He's got it for his birthday ( from me), I think it's totally cute.

I've been working on a lot of things. Some things I can't show you, since they are barely begone, and Christmas gifts to boot. Sorry.

For another finished project, which was a gift as well, I don't have pictures yet, the recipient hasn't got it yet, hopefully she'll get it this week and is quick with sending pictures (if it fits at all).

And, I've been spinning up a storm. I haven't touched my knitting needles in two days, because of spinning. I've started this wool/mohair blend some time ago, can't even remember when I finished the first bobbin. Now it was bugging me, and collecting dust on my coffee table, enough, so that I forced myself to get going on the second bobbin, which is now done as well, since last night. I didn't think I would make it, had to take several breaks, because my fingers cramped up, and my right knee hurt like hell, but in the end I did it! Now to do it all over again, a third time - oh goodie! It's going to be a 3-ply sock yarn. It's about 250g, so I guess I'll be able to make 3 pair of socks, if I want to. We'll see how it turns out.

As an aside, I'm a little dizzy, and I'm starting to get a light headache. I tell you, don't operate spraying cans, right after you get up in the morning!!! Huh? you ask yourselves.

O.K. I'd like to be able to afford a maid, that said, I had a lot of cleaning to do this week. There will be a service man coming to look at the furnace. Our house is housing two large dogs, and it's not easy to keep those hairs under control, and there IS a certain smell. Usually I don't care, but for some reason, I didn't want the poor guy to be overwhelmed with doggy smell, so I purchased an air freshener out of a spray can. I don't use that normally, maybe that's another reason for getting a full blast of it directly in my face, the other was being so tired. Now I smell real fresh too! ;o) Hope he'll be here soon, otherwise I'll have to do another round, and that scares me. ;o) On the other hand I'm fully awake now, so nothing bad can happen to me, and the bad, bad spray can has no power whatsoever. Enough said.


The next subject is a wonderful one. On October 11th, I received a package. Sybille remembered my birthday, that is, she knows that it in November, but last year it came too late, so she calculated and sent it earlier. Only this year, it was here after 5 days!!! (not weeks like last year). So I've got an awesome early B-day present!

Sybille was very generous, and seems to know me well. I've got wonderful Sock books, lovely sock yarn, my favorite chocolate (Milka), gummi bears, and even some treats for Sam and Biko, and a lovely card as well. Thanks again Sybille!


To round it all up, here's a picture of Sam soaking up some sunshine on the balcony. Right now, both of them are doing well, no major boo boo's, skin infection cleared up nicely, everything is alright. Hope I didn't chinx it.

So my friends, I better get going, so that there will be something to show soon. I'll do my best. Bye for now! ;o)