Oh God! So Yummy!

*Explodes in a fire of roving love*

So I went to City Knitting today to knit and what-not. My mom came and joined me later on in the afternoon, and I decided that I needed to buy something. I haven't bought any yarn this month -- that I know of. Maybe? I loose track.
Anyway, instead of yarn, I decided to splurge on some roving since I've often admired the Lorna's roving that they have in their back room. Instead, I bought Yarn Hollow...delicous, delcious Yarn Hollow roving. I couldn't help but take some pictures of it and start spinning it as soon as I got home:

Isn't it all gorgeous?? :) I love it to pieces.

One More Thing!!!

I've totally blanked out on the total Handspun Secret Pal exchange thing held by Interweave. I feel pretty awful about it, but I'm getting my deal together! And I just got around to taking a couple pictures of the lovely skein my secret pal sent to me a couple weeks ago! :)























The second, really close up pic (I LOOOOOOOVE my new digital camera and it's glorious macro settings!!!!!) is closer to what the color is, but it has some really awesome sparklies in it, which for some reason I've never thought to put in my handspun yarn, but it really is a rather ingenious idea if I do say so myself.
I have no idea what I'm going to do with the yarn. For now, it will sit in my yarn basket and look pretty like all of my handspun yarns. I always find interesting things to make. :)


...Did I just hear thunder???? O.o

It's Been Too Long

So it's been so long since I updated that they've re-vamped Blogger on me! Oh noes! I'm so confused!!!

No, not really.

Anyway, I figured that it's best that I post some update pictures of what I've been doing over the past few months. No sweater as I had hoped to start after Christmas. Blah. I'm so lazy and cheap to actually buy the yarn for a sweater. Of course, in the process of making other things I've probably bought enough yarn to make a sweater out of it all.

My mind is in so many places at once!

So anyway, piccies! From earliest finished to...latest.

These are my Mardi Gras knee socks! Well, Mardi Gras knee sock. Unfortunately, it will not be finished for Mardi Gras...tomorrow. :( Boo. I thought I had another week.














These are my cabled mittens that I made to match my Clapotis! :) The mitten on the right is FAR superior to the one on the left. I kinda effed up the left one.

The cuff is basically the cuff of Knitty's Fetching, the rest of the pattern comes from my very own noggin'. The yarn is Cascade 220.













These lovelies are my Fetching (pattern from Knitty) made in Patons SWS. They're kinda itchy, but the colorway is to die for. I adore them, despite their itchyness.

















These last two pictures here are of a baby sweater that I made for one of my French professors who is due...next month I believe. :) So I guess I lied about the sweater, I made a baby one!
This sweater is the pattern for the Baby Bolero from One Skein by Leigh Radford. I really love it, it was made with Cascade's cotton/wool blend. I can never remember the name of it. Really lovely though. Both of these pictures are from before I wove the ends in. I wish that I had taken pictures afterwards because it really ended up looking adorable.
Oh, and my professor (and her husband) loved the sweater, which made me a very happy knitter.