Hot day/ finished spinning some " grab-bag " wool

I spent most of the afternoon on the deck, finishing spinning up the rest of my grab bag wool from Carol at the Sheep Shed. It's fun to get grab bags, never know what you will get to play with! And it is all good Brown Sheep wool. On the table in the picture is the majority of my grab bag. Plus what I finished up with today - a large skein of that dark grey. Have been trying to spin it up long draw, keeping it nice and soft. There's lots to spin in my stash, and it is all like treasures to me. Fiberholic, yeah, yeah.
We have had mudding, taping, prep for painting all the ceilings, etc. going on. A good time to have something I can get outside and do. What a mess! But all in the name of finally getting a little face lift done on the place.

These 2 pictures are of my little Milton Bradley loom again. Am still amazed I wound up with something useable, playing with my Homespun (Lion Brand) scrappy stuff. Next weave time will be back on my Kromski Rigid Heddle 32".

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This little rug (or fug, as I keep typing it) has already been claimed for a cat bed.

Now I am thinking about the Kauni sweater that is so talked about. I love love love the colors of that yarn. You can see it at http://www.ruths.dk/

I am excited to be a Ravelry member now. Haven't done anything with it yet, but get caught wandering around there for hours. How fascinating. What a resource. What will it all mean?? Too late to imagine..good night. O!, if you are a cat person, you gotta see www.icanhascheezburger.com SO many cute cats. Check it out. Night, nancy - and the rest of you also. ahem.....grin

MS 3 finished and blocked ! Cat Trouble ! Last Post Previewed and Not Saved! Starting Over!!

My title explains why I am kinda seethy right now. I love computers. OK :

Last night was a mess. I was too tired to block. Did anyway, just couldn't wait! Gateway cat couldn't wait either. Was totally insistent he was going to help - actively! Pouncing, full of cat glee, which everyone knows is a sure fire recipe for trouble. Finally I had to discipline him, did what usually works - held him down by the scruff of his irritating little neck and talked fiercely to him. Only this time he only got mad! Finally had to put him outside so I wouldn't have to stick pins in him and stake him out to block. Picture of stole is here somewhere.

I am SO grateful to so many kind people who wrote, helping me in my hour of stole desperation! Fiber folk are definitely the most generous people around. Imagine having a wonderful Norwegian ( hi, AnneB ) writing out line by line instructions for me! With that and a lot of other help, I got it done. Thank you all . Now, I am not saying the mistake area looks just like all the rest, but it is close enough I don't think anyone who didn't know about it would see it. In fixing it, I redid it about 3 or 4 times. Can't say enough about that wonderful Zephyr yarn, holding up to my re-re-re tinking it.

This picture shows where my mistake is. The bead straight down from the letter'p' in picture is it. See, not too bad at all.

Here is a picture of my little harvest of yesterday. Kinda pretty, but it is on a regular sized saucer. Not the biggest tomato! Was very tasty though.


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Gateway thinks tomatoes are small potatoes next to pics of him. Also had to put up the family of turkeys outside the computer room window the other day. Must have had something very tasty in that grass.

Hey guess what. Go ahead. Ok, I got my Ravelry invite tonight. All I can say is Wow! If I had a problem using up too much time on the computer before......there is So Much great stuff on Ravelry! And that led me to cold -brewing coffee, a really cool video about making wrist warmers and knitted shoes and making shrinky dink type jewelry and you get the idea. I am definitely in trouble now.

MS 3 was such a satisfying knit. Now I have a Rob Roy shawl, my box charka to get going on, a Peace Fleece sweater I just have to put together ( for me). an afghan I meant to have ready for my step dil last Christmas, spinning on the wheel. I have to use up some stash, yarn and fiber. I just can't justify getting more. But then, who wants to go around justifying everything anyway...... hope you are having a good time too!

O MY! Mystery Stole Problems - clue 6 row 133!

Well, here it is! Was just trying to finish that 'last couple of rows before going to bed'..and here is what happened. I saw that I appeared to have an extra stitch or something on the left side of this (was) beaded feather stitch. Now I have a mess, and today is the day I was going to enjoy the last few rows before Clue 7 tomorrow. Help! Melanie! Anyone!
Any advice from MS 3 folks is Greatly Appreciated. I thought I could just pick up my stitches, very methodically and simply and calmly (HA) and now I just cannot figure out what to do. The really sad thing is that I have not used any lifelines in the wing portion. Used them every 10 rows up till this clue. So, I am afraid to rip out about 8 rows because, looking at the knitting I'm just not sure I can get everything picked up properly, even trying to run an afterthought lifeline.
Will try to make more frequent entries. Am very good at waiting until after midnight to think about it, then deciding I'm too tired......