Spin me some chunky!

I spun up some chunky merino this week. I am not sure if I like how I spun it. I like the colors by themselves but I am not sure if I like how they blended. I bet I will love it knit up though:)





I set my knitting and spinning goals for this year! Check them out in my notebook on Ravelry:) I hope you all have a safe and wonderful New Years Eve! I will talk to you in the new year!

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A bag-o-wool!

I got a big bag of wool for Christmas! It is Tara Tweed from the Knitting Bee! I love it and am going to knit Mulled Cider! What knitter wouldn't love a bag of wool for Christmas!


Happy Christmas everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful holiday!
Trish

I got a great early Christmas gift!!!

My hubby is doing something with yarn!!! It isn't knitting but it is almost as good!!!



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Finally!

I finished my hat and mittens out of handspun! I have been done with the hat for a while but I finished the mittens today:) I think that they are fun! they don't match on purpose and I love it!





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More Colors

I dyed a couple colorways yesterday that I like a lot. So I thought I would give you all a peek!



I have finished knitting to show you all but the weather is not so good for pictures:( So hopefully I can get pictures of my finished cowl and toddler sweater soon!

Oh Oh, and I am knitting the yarn up from the last post and I LOVE IT!!!!! I will have that to show you soon also!

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Ready to start!

Okay I spun up a second skein to go with the one I spun the other day! I am going to make stripping mittens and a matching hat for winter walks:) I just had to give you all a little preview! I can't start until my Christmas knitting is done though! Hopefully soon, if I would just quit adding people to my list!

Oh yes and that is lots of frost outside! It was 26 degrees this morning when I took the pictures.

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Woot! I did it!

I spun Aran weight yarn in a single! I know those of you who don't spin have no idea what I am talking about so I will explain! So this is how the story goes. When most people learn to spin all they can spin at first are thick and thin fat singles and as we spin more and more we learn to spin finer and finer until we make smooth uniform thin yarn. Then one day the spinner says to oneself I would love to spin a chunky yarn and guess what it is hard to do! Darn near impossible! I have been working on this for a while! Like a year! I feel like I graduated:)Happy dance is going on at my house.

The fiber before it became yarn.


The yarn! 208 yards aran weight singles!



OH OH, I finished a cute little sweater yesterday that I will have to blog tomorrow, once I get the buttons on:)
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Playing with Sock Yarn!

I dyed some of my absolute favorite sock yarn base. It is 75% merino and 25% nylon. It wears really well and the socks last a long time:) I dyed up just 5 of my colorways and I love how they turned out. I am off to list them in my shop:)





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New Colorway

I like it!!! I named it Helen. Oh and Helen it is not exactly like what you are getting for your birthday! I am trying not to spin this one at the moment!


Oh and I will have some finished knitting for you all soon! The last few projects on my list are taking a bit longer then the others:)
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Today's colors:)

Have I mentioned how much I love color:)




I am still busy making gifts. I have made 4 pairs of the slipper socks this year and I can't keep showing you pictures of those so you get my pretty colors instead!
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And with the leftovers

And with the leftovers from my grandmothers mittens I made these:)

Joan's hands get cold when she is working at the computer! I hope these help:)
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Thankful

Gregory is thankful for the fact that we all actually love him:) Like we wouldn't!

Sandrey is thankful for going to Auntie Nina's for dinner because she serves meat!

Elliott is thankful for X-Box! He is obviously 8!

The Hubby is thankful for family. Can you tell he didn't want to participate!

Oh and I am am thankful for a roof over our heads and a healthy family.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone:) Trish

Fire

This is a new colorway for me:) I like it a lot! This one is done as a gradient, witch means it is one long color repeat. I am am going to dye it my normal way today on merino and then I will upload it to my new website:) Have I mentioned how much I love my new site?????


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Mitten's Made For Walking

So I made some mittens for my grandma out of handspun merino:) I think that these are just her colors:) I hope they keep her fingers warm for her winter walks. I had enough yarn left over that I am making some fingerless mitts for a friend and I should be done with those today:)Woot! That Christmas list is so almost complete that I have started adding people!


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It is set!

Okay here is a picture of the yarn from yesterday set:) It is raining outside so I took the pictures inside again and I am still trying to figure out this light box! Oh well I think they turned out OK!



Oh and I have knitting for you tomorrow:) Nothing fancy but knitting:)
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Randomness!

I am blogging from the fencing center and on the fly:)

I spun up some singles last night! To me they are thick but I still think they are only DK weight. 264 yards merino and silk:)Obviously before it is not set:)

We woke up this morning to a fairly hard frost:) I love it:)



Oh and I am now at the fencing center watching my boy compete:) Go Gregory:)


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Grandpa's Gorge

So I knit up a quick hat for my grandpa a couple of days ago. He is one of those guys that doesn't like his ears covered all the way so I made it a little shorter then I normally would:) The yarn is handspun dyed and spun by me:) The colorway is Gorge and I really like how it knit up. I have enough yarn left over to make some mitts for someone! Love it!


Oh and that is my biggest guy Gregory modeling it and we pulled it all the way down on his ears because he likes his hats lower then Grandpa:)
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Special Order

I just dyed this fiber up for a customer:) I think it is so pretty all together:)

BTW I love special orders, so if you ever want a special colorway let me know:) Oh and I can dye on yarn too!
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A New Colorway

So this is a twist on an old colorway and I love how it turned out:) This is Twist on Humboldt:) Have I mentioned that I love playing with color:)

Merino and Silk


Falkland

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Sandrey's Cozy Feet

I made another pair of slipper socks:) These ones are for Sandrey for Christmas. I updated the pattern a little and it is available on the right hand side of my blog under free patterns. Enjoy:)



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I Was Informed

I am at the end of knitting all my Christmas gifts and this last week I had to knit up some Mittens for my little man. So I said to Elliott "What color mittens do you like?" I was informed that he would like "mitten colored mittens, you know mommy grey"! Just when I thought I was going to knit with some color!

These are my little mans mittens, he will get them for Christmas.



The Christmas Knitting is going great! I only have a 5 people left on the list and three of those projects are started. Two are 1/3 complete and one is 2/3 complete. I pared down the list quite a bit this year to make it manageable. I still have like 25 people but I took off at least 10!

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12 Hours

12 hours of spinning and this is what I have to show for it!
400 yards Merino and Silk, fingering weight, N-ply! This colorway was My October Club colorway and I love it!









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Playing around!

I was playing around in my day studio and came up with a couple of new colorways. Not sure if I will keep the bright one but I love the dark one and have named it Hubby! I think my Hubby needs some socks!





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Revamped

I revamped the new website! It looks much better and I am still working on it. I will be adding products all the time:) Pop on over and let me know what you think I could really use some feedback:) Trish

More socks:)

I just finished these socks out of Malabrigo Sock. I love how this yarn feels knit up. I think these turned out quite well! The hubby is begging for them:)




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Big Red Socks

I finished a pair of big red socks! These are for my big boy for Christmas! I can't believe he will be 15 soon! I hope he loves these big red socks:)


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A Wee Knit

I knit this wee baby sweater up as a shop sample for the Bee. I normally don't share the knits I make for the shop but this one turned out so cute I thought I should:) The yarn is called Honey and we just got it in at the Knitting Bee. It was very soft and yummy to knit!
Sorry about the bad pictures:( I took them inside! The second picture is the true color:)






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Love!

Oh, I am so in love with this skein of yarn!!! I finally finished spinning it up this morning. I have been a slow spinner as of late and have been working on this one for about 2 months!!! I am really glad that I love it after it took me so long to spin:) It is merino and silk dyed by Dicentra Designs and I bought it at The Knitting Bee! I spun it up on my Sidekick and plied it on my Schacht Reeves. I got 490 yards fingering weight out of 4 oz! Did I tell you I love it! The pictures don't do it justice. Oh and I had not soaked and set it before I took them!





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Aidez

I finished my very modified Aidez sweater. I really love how it turned out! I did no cables on the arms or back and added neck shaping and a collar. I have been to lazy to put the buttons on and I got some pretty bad pictures but such is life!



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