I'm knitting . . . honest

I'm knitting, honestly. Check out my works in progress section. Just don't have photos of the FOs yet. I finished a baby sweater for a 1-2 year old, adapted a pattern I found in a prior magazine with a lace pattern in a different pattern. Figures. I have been knitting a few projects with Lion Brand Yarn. They are coming out with some really nice yarn now. Much better than just acrylic or the old Wool-Ease!

I used Polarspun, color Purple Passion for the baby sweater. It was the first time I had to put a zipper in. The little one is only 7.5 months old right now though, so she has a ways to go. It was a nice fast knit though!

I also started a lap robe/shawl for my mother-in-law. It is in Wool-Ease Sportweight in Blue Mist. The color is a really beautiful heather with reds, yellows, and greens in the blue. Very nice. Should make a lovely lap/shawl for my ML. I chose to do it in the feather and fan pattern, a simple and fast pattern that looks sophisticated as well. It is looking lovely right now, but I only have an inch on it, so no pictures on it for now. Maybe when I am in CA I will take an updated picture of it and post it up on-line. That's right CA.

I'm going home to visit my family (parents, brother's family, grandmother, and cousins). Wheee! Hubby is staying to guard the cats, er, feed the cats. :-) My beautiful little niece is growing up so fast and I have to see her. She is at the a fun stage, the moving around stage, the getting into mischief stage. She is standing and starting to walk already and I am missing it! But I'll get to see the little one soon! Yipeee!

Pictures galore for me too! I'm taking my digital camera along with my laptop so I can quickly download pictures on it.

I also finished another skein of my rainbow yarn and the person who dyed my fiber is going to dye me some more so I don't run out on this vest. Yeah for her. She did a wonderful job with the first roving. I can't wait to see the second roving. Now, I just have to dye up the contrasting color for the vest!

Okay, next time I hope to have pictures!
Happy fibering!

Michigan trip

My husband and I were off on a trip to Michigan last week, hence no postings.

Robin has finished several projects that she will hopefully share with everyone. She is off on a trip to England for a friend's wedding, so the sharing may be a while. Especially since when she gets back, she and her husband are moving down south. Sigh, I'll miss her terribly. She'll just have to keep me up to date on-line.

What have I been working on? Not much right now. I am spinning my rainbow yarn and knitting a couple baby things that I can't tell anyone about. Or at least not what exactly I am doing.

Oh yeah, I washed two pounds of wool fiber I had purchased a while back, in fleece form. I had purchased a pound of black rambouillet x cormo wool off Ebay. I won't be doing that again. The seller said it had very little vegetable matter. It had tons of vegetable matter and is not worth my time or effort to clean up. I washed it and got most of the lanolin and dirt out, but not the plant matter. Ugh! On the other hand though, the pound of Finn I purchased from Misty Mountain Farm at Maryland was absolutely beautiful and washed up wonderfully. I can't wait to card it and spin it. There was hardly any vegetable matter as the sheep was covered. The fiber is so soft and the color is absolutely beautiful. As soon as I get a substantial amount carded up, I will put a picture up.

That's it for now.