Must. Finish. The. Row.

First of all, Laura (the ‘Loud’ in Loud and Mouthy) and I hung out for a bit last night at the yarn shop. Laura is on a making videos binge so we did a brief little video together in which we talk about Handknit Heroes, my boyfriend Mike being on Who Wants to be a Millionaire this week and of course how awesome the Phat Fiber box that I got was. Her camera makes it sound like we lisp. We don’t.

Also, some of the Rock Your Socks Off club reservation slots have been snapped up already, but there are still 18 slots left. If those slots fill up before mid-February I will open up a few more slots but they will not be at the currently discounted price of $95, so if you want that lower price snap up a reservation now!

I also wanted to share the finished shawl that Jaybird Designs worked up in the custom Mardi Gras yarn I dyed for her a few weeks ago. It’s beautiful!

I love how all the colors work together so well and the open work is just gorgeous! Hopefully she’ll get pictures of the recipient of this lovely shawl wearing it during the Mardi Gras celebrations in a few weeks.

This is the first time I’ve seen some of my hand dyed crocheted. I’ve knit a few samples myself out of my hand dyed, and my friends who have bought or been gifted my yarns have also knit some from them, but never crochet. I’m glad to see they look good in either medium. Maybe I should break out the hairpin lace loom again and see how they work up that way. Hmm.

The spinning experiment soldiers on. I brought the wheel that Christine and I own home, but thus far haven’t had a chance to do much with it. Tomorrow is Sunday and I have no where to be all day so I’m hoping to get a few hours of quality time in with the wheel, but I’m still plugging away on the spindle as well. Which is easy to do while I’m at work. I spun up some singles out of a sample from The Painted Tiger that I got in my fabulous Phat Fiber box. I’ve ordered more full sized rovings too from Vines (remember the really pretty light blues and white mini hank I spun up last week? That was from a sample of her roving) that should get here in a few days that I’m very excited to work with. I also ordered a pound of natural colored roving along with my big purchase of base yarns for the Rock Your Socks Off club. I’m hoping to use that to experiment with hand dying the roving myself to see how I do. Since I’m still very new to spinning and don’t really have a good idea of how fibers spin up, I have been sort of leery to dye my own roving for fear of ending up with really horrible colors in the finished yarn. We’ll see what I can come up with though, I’d love to be able to start selling hand painted rovings as well as my hand painted yarns.

Remember the contest is still running until the 26th, so if you have any more ideas for bands that should be colorways, get them in now! There’s 3 prizes available. Also, definitely keep checking back over the next few weeks because I will be having more give aways here on the blog in order to de-stash a bit. I have 21.7 pounds of sock bases coming and a very small space to store things in so I need to clear out some of the stash that will probably never be knit to make room for inventory. Some of the nicer stuff (hand dyed, hand spun, high end items) may be put up for sale in my Etsy shop at deeply discounted prices too, so check there as well.

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