Girl on the Rocks

Why,
it’s some roving!! This summer at the El Cerrito city wide garage sale i picked
up a crock pot for $1 in anticipation of using it for a dye pot - and today was
the day! I was so sick at looking at sheep-colored yarn, so this weekend i
picked up some gray, brown and black dyes. Before i put this roving in, I dyed
some yarn that i had spun



Man, I really like it. I am interested to
compare the dyed yarn with yarn made from dyed
roving.

I also kool-aid dyed some of
the first “yarn” that I made, and i think i might make a hat out of
it.

I also tried to Navajo-ply after
watching a little video on the target="NewWindow">Joy of Hand Spinning webpage. It kinda worked.
It was certainly fun. This is what turned
out:

Tomorrow is my last night at
spinning class… how will i spin after that?? why with my new Lendrum
spinning wheel!

I got it yesterday at Carolina
Homespun. That is a really great place, and i am so happy that they
had this wheel in stock. It certainly has everything that a knitter and a
spinner could want. Gen, Cheryl and I went, and we each left with a
wheel and a ton of beautiful fibers. So far it works like a dream. I got the
jumbo-ply head, but i haven’t yet tried it. 

In other exciting news, my friend
cheryl at
purl, interrupted has announced that her entry to to “Knit Lit 3″
book has been accepted and is going to be published. woo-hoo! i am so going to
pre-order that puppy as soon as i
can.

Speaking of ordering books, i got
severe scarf envy when i saw the href="http://bloominknitiot.blogspot.com/2005/01/new-scarves.html"
target="NewWindow">two scarves that Trish has been working on. It
only took a few days for me to crack and order href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1564775496/knitthis-20"
target="NewWindow">‘The Little Box of Scarves.‘

Though
i have yet to see it in person, amazon tells me that each pattern is on a little
laminated card for portability. And Trish’s scarves are dang cute, so that is
all the motivation i need.

Finally the
Ribby Cardi. It is suffering from neglect. i think it is odd that i became
totally distracted not while working on the large back piece (which was
certainly the most boring) but rather once i have started on the sleeves (which
i think are pretty fun).

It is my first attempt at knitting 2
sleeves at one time. wait, who am i kidding, these are the only sleeves i have
ever knit. not to jinx myself, but i am pretty happy that i have managed to
keep the yarn for each sleeve separate and not accidentally connected the two
pieces. It is not the Ribby cardi’s fault that i stopped paying attention to
it, i have just been seriously distracted with spinning lately. i had to show
it who’s boss. I am ready to dedicate some time to getting this sweater
done.

oh yeah one more thing. My
sleeves are knit in coffee bean brown and it is really a beautiful color brown.
Go to elann
and buy some.