Covered in beez!

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Yes, it's the rainy season. Thanks, Louise, for the hot tip on the cool boots!

Time to face facts.

I start too many projects. I'll never finish the ones I have. Therefore, I am contemplating embarking upon a wholly new and rather terrifying plan: PROJECT RIPPER.

There is this ungodly pile of knitting in my TV room that is a source of embarrassment to me, comprised of about twelve different projects. I think I'll tackle this tomorrow. If I find things less than 1/2 finished, out they go. Rip! If I find things over 1/2 finished--I'll finish 'em. Yep. Before I can start any new things, this must be completed.

I'm sure a lot of you have the same problem. You see a pattern or a yarn and think, OMG I must have that! I must knit that! And then you get into it and discover that it's no fun or you'll never wear it and never be able to pawn it off, either. I blame magazines, seductive yarn stores, and Ravelry, of course.

Well, there it is. I haven't been too diligent at following my own rules in the past. We'll see how far I get. Wish me luck!

From roving to singles to a plied skein.

Drop spindling on the Shetland roving I bought at WHIFFF. It's spinning up quite nicely now. Instead of doing a chain ply like I've been doing lately, I decided to go for the simpler two-ply look. I'm not sure what yardage I'll end up with out of 4 oz of roving, but it's spinning up to be a nice fluffy fingering weight. I'm thinking...lace? We'll see.

And I'm making slow progress on the cardigan--taking breaks to knit on socks and spin.

So much fiber, so little time.

Sunday I popped down with a friend to the south end of Whidbey Island for a fiber sale at Paradise Found Fiber Farm--look at the haul! 4 oz of alpaca/silk blend, 2 oz of PYGORA (drool), and 4 oz of hand painted Shetland roving. Who says you can have too much fun? Dang--now that I think about it, I should've taken better pics of the event. Bad blogger, no cookie.

Not dead yet!

Actually, the spinning and knitting are coming along nicely! I won a blue ribbon in August for my handspun shawl, and currently I'm working on a handspun, top-down yoke cardigan. I suppose, as with everything else, C.S. Lewis's Law of Undulation applies to spinning and knitting urges, as well.

Because of Love Beret

This pattern is from www.spindlicity.com--check it out! (I don't know why blogger isn't hyperlinky thingie for me). I really enjoyed knitting it--it was fast! This is my handspun, which I'd finished probably three years ago or more and just now got around to working on.

I know the picture isn't that great, but when I took one of my own freaky mug modeling the hat, it nearly broke the damn camera *g*

I think this is going to be a great knitting year!

Progress in mudsville!

Finished the "Because of Love" Beret, pattern at

Making progress on Boss Socks!

Started the Northwest Celtic Cardigan! w00t!

Pictures to come...