Welcome Avalon!!

I started this hat as soon as Avalon "was arriving"....welcome Little Avalon!! The yarn is my second handspun :-) The pattern is based on Trendy Baby Hat.

Come On Avalon!!

I am behind on my posting a little...a lot more behind on my projects!! But here is a little hat that I made for Avalon before she arrived. The yarn is from Northern Bay Handspun...a lovely spinner that I found on Etsy. The pattern is Trendy Baby Hat.

Yarn for Sarah

Okay Sarah...I will be mailing your yarn tomorrow! I hope you enjoy knitting it as much as I did spinning it ;-)
skein #6
58 yards
3.5 oz

My First Homespun Project!

My first project using my own yarn spun by MOI!

On the spools:


Plied:


All three yarns I spun that day:


My first time knitting in the round:


Baby Gnome hat---now to find a fat little baby to wear it!!


Fiber:Frabjous Fibers Merino Roving
Hat pattern:Trendy Baby Hat by Bethany Patchin

Knitting wasn't enough.........

So I bought a spinning wheel.
And I am learning to spin.
Everyone asks me why....
My answer: It is like cooking from scratch.

My wheel:

An Ashford Joy...double peddle.

My first yarn:

My Second:

Random Drop Stitch Scarf

The beginning of a scarf that I made for Trish...a simple random drop stitch...but it showed the yarn changes so nicely :-)

WIP Wednesday!!

I have this Work-In-Progress that hasnt been recieving much work or progress! So this Wednesday I am showing it hoping to motivate myself to get it done and be able to post in an upcoming Finished Object Friday :-)

This little bear blanket is going to be for a new baby in our church...I need to get it done she was born in March! My aunt had made a blanket like this for me and I could never find the pattern...so a really sweet vetern crocheter from my local yarn shop looked at the blanket and wrote the pattern out for me. You can get the pattern here





Linking up to:

Cherry Blossom Shawl

Pattern:  Flirty Shoulder Shawl by Michael del Vecchio
Yarn:  Cascade Lana Grande
Yarn source: Blueball Mountain Spindle and Needleworks

Eclectic Stole

Pattern: New England Stole by Lucia Tedesco
Yarn: Monet's Menageries

Shalom Cardigan

I am standing in the yarn store waiting to check out and staring at the handspun yarn on the wall.  Staring at it...feeling its loneliness wanting a home...but I can barely knit smooth milled yarn so I am definitely not up to tackling knubby yarn...looks a little too unruley for me.

Then for some reason I pull some off the wall and buy it.  I take it home and am no longer interested in the orginal project...all I can think about is knitting up that yarn.  I look through my stash and the lime green shines through. 

The rest is history...I was in love.

Pattern:  Shalom Cardigan

Yarn:  Lime: Plymouth

Handspun: Blueball Mountain Spindle & Needleworks

Weaving!

I went to a weaving workshop today at Weavers Corner.

I can hardly wait to go back!
I made two dishcloths:

And a beautiful rug for my kitchen from the ugliest fabric remnants ever!!

Now I am totally in love with weaving ...how to get Bryan to buy me a floor loom?!

Irish Hiking Scarf

My fourth and final attempt at cables :-)
Yarn: cascade Eco+
Color: Turtle
Pattern: Irish Hiking Scarf
Yarn from Blueball Mountain Spindle & Needleworks

Kenna's Hat

**Kenna here is your hat!  As soon as I am better I will bring it to you :-)

Hat details:
Pattern: The Oro Hat
Yarn: Cascade 220 Superwash {IcePink/Apple}
Yarn Source: Blueball Mountain Spindle & Needleworks

Instant Gratification Scarf

This is my first handspun yarn experience.  I purchased this lovely yarn from Northern Bay Handspun Yarn just a few days ago.  The yarn is 50% merino/50% milk--and so very soft.  The pattern was very simple and found here.  I used 83 yards.  Enjoy your scarf Ang!

First knitting project

This is my first knitting project--besides the washcloth that I made in my knitting class.

Bryan had said that he would love a wool blanket hand knitted.  So I took a knitting class, bought wool yarn...and am slowly putting this afghan together.  The inspiration is here.  I am making larger and in the stockinette stitch.  The knitting lessons and yarn is from Blueball Mountain Spindle & Needleworks.