Wool Fumes!

I guess I did a bit of emotional shopping this last month. The wool fumes just made me pull out my C/C and use it. I blame it all on the deployment! No, I am not returning any of it! I will try to use it up before I see Sarge again.
Here is the rundown:


 Batts from Uniquely Yours!



Into the Whirled-


Plays well with Colors- I won this!


Wolfe Farms colorway from Desert Vista DyeWorks.


Loop batt



Highland Handmades


Trifecta of Awesome Fiber club

1st yarn store in Kalamazoo-






2nd yarn store in Kalamazoo




Yep- already started a project for a friend!


Back

Front

Plus I received a few gifts from Friends.
Thank you!!


Project bags big enough for sweaters!!!
Thank you LollyT!!


Puffies and goodies, plus two mice for King Tut and Mr. Spot (not shows as they have already claimed them)
Thank you kae1217!!


And finally-
I was able to do a bit of spinning while watching Sarge get ready to go. I needed the Zen it gives me.
222 yds of DragonFly in Iris colorway


Putting the credit card away for a while!

Been Busy!

It has been a while since I posted. I have good excuses, but I will not go into them. I'll just show you what I have been up to.

Knittin' in the Mitten Retreat

More photos: We had a lot of fun!!I am glad it went well and am crazy enough to want to do it again next year.
Without these two ladies, and a few others, my sanity would not be entact.

The day after I had lots of medical tests (all came back ok) and surgery on my foot to partially remove a spur and callous it had caused. I had to be off my feet for a while after this so I had time to rest.
This was ok with me as we had the first snow of the season right after that

It is inevitable, but I do not have to like it.
Sarge and I attended a friends 25th wedding anniversary/ renewal of vows/ retirement party



Yep that is my finished Tapanzee sweater. I did snaps and mock buttons.

I spent some of my down time knitting and Boo brought me a pretty cookie to cheer me up.


Hopefully I will be able to keep up here now that all the activity is over.

Knittin' in the Mitten

There are 11 spaces left.

Please contact me if you would like to join us for a wonderful weekend of relaxing and fiber fun.

When: November 3-6, 2011

Where: Grand Haven, Michigan

Price: $180 or $98 for day trippers

Contact: CoggieTM on Ravelry

Sheep Balls!!

Felted Sheep Ornament

Wet flet a ball of roving into about an egg size round ball
Wait for it to dry
Needle felt more roving over it, so it is fluffy



Take a pipe cleaner.
Cut 4 -2 inch pieces, 1 -2 1/2 inch piece and 1- 3 inch piece
Shape into 4- feet, 1- tail and 1 face








Place feet on bottom, tail on back and face on front
Needle felt the pipe cleaner into the wool.
String through body to hang (not shown)






Felted Jacob- just playing. Did this at my weekly Hooker group.

Little Helper

Mr. Spot is very interested in the computer screen when I am editing the podcast.

Audacity has a line that runs along when you are editing and keeps track of where you are. The faster it goes, the more Mr. Spot tries to catch it.

Thankfully he didn't try to help me ball up all the handspun for my Olympic Wrap.

I still need to decide on how I am going to knit (or crochet) this up.

Tailor's Buttonhole

I talked about this buttonhole on Episode 41 of The High Fiber Diet Podcast.
I promised pictures for those who wanted to see it done. I do not have a camcorder and Boo was not home so no action photos, but here are pictures of how the buttonhole is worked up.

Buttonhole is worked with waste yarn over desired number of stitches.



Before removing Waste yarn. Thread a piece of the project yarn through all the stitches, plus the side stitches, to insure that you will not drop any stitches.



Remove Waste yarn



Turn work over and crochet chain bind off with the threaded yarn to close the loose buttonhole stitches to each other around to close. Weave in ends.



This is what the front of the buttonhole looks like. This is unblocked, I will try to remember to take a picture after blocking.



I hope this helps.