Finished Gregory

I just finished spinning the Gregory colorway! I love how it turned out. I got 460 yards of fingering weight superwash merino! I think I will make that sweet boy of mine some socks! I hope he will wear them:)





I also have some merino on the wheel that I hope to have finished tomorrow. It is for a hat for my best friends son for the holidays! I am going to make lots of hats for little boys this year so I have to get cracking!



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Hats!

I knit a couple of Thorpe Hats out of handspun this week! This pattern is great. It is a super fast knit, easy as pie and you get something really cute when you are done knitting! I am making these for lots of little boys on my Christmas list!





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I am spinning up some Gregory in SW Merino:) I think I will knit my sweet Gregory boy something out of the finished yarn.




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My Official Rinser

This is my Official Rinser:) He has rinsing fiber down to a science! I do not have his patience! Thanks Homey:)





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It's Electric:)

I made a really wild colorway yesterday! I was just playing around:) I am not sure if I will ever make it again but it was fun!

It's Electric!



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Boys Fencing and Birthdays!

So today is Elliott's Actual B-day! He is 7:) Did you hear that my baby is 7!!!!! Happy Birthday E!


So now for the fencing! My biggest boy fenced yesterday in Seattle. Boy was it a long day. I had to wake up at 4:45 yesterday to get everyone out the door by 5:30AM!!! I drove a fencing coach a really awesome fencer Chris and my stinky big boy and his stinky friend Connor, oh and my friend Chystal's daughter Dana came too! The three boys had to fence at 9AM in the 2010 Leon Auriol Open. There were 53 fencers in mixed foil. All three boys fenced very well. Connor was in the top half he took 24th, considering that he is 14 and there are adults and older teens that are fencing, that is very good. Gregory (my boy)took 3rd, earning a B10 rating! That rocks!!! Man I thought I might have a heart attack watching him fence! And Chris won!!! He took my boy out and it was a blood bath. Gregory only scored two points!!!! Chris rocks and Gregory wants to beat him some day! Over all our whole team did very well. Congrats boys!!!






Oh and Dana had never been to Seattle so I took her to Pikes Place and we went out for coffee with my good friend Cynthia. Then I took all the kids out for clam chowder on the water front and went to the famous curiosity shop that has two mummies to gawk at. Over all it was a great day!



They were very tired on the way home:)



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Elliott's B-Day Present!

Elliott's B-Day present arrived in the mail today. I let him have it early because I just couldn't wait to play with it! He received a 14" Red Oak Castle Spinning Wheel hand made by Rick Reeves!!! I am so jealous!!! I got a super deal and he will enjoy it for a very long time.I have instructed him that he is not allowed to spin on it while I am not home:)

What a cool b-day gift for a 7 year old!!!






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