SO. MUCH. STUFF.

Socks. I’ve been knitting socks like crazy. TOP DOWN! On DPN’s! Holy Pointy Sticks, Batman! Has the world gone topsy turvy? Yes, I believe it may have. I love top down socks. I can’t even believe how much I love them since I resisted it so long. I still believe toe up two at a time to be more efficient, but I love the simplicity of a top down sock. I love the undivided attention you can give the sock and I love the classic fitted look of a properly turned heel and gusset.

This is the sock I’ve dubbed ‘Coachella Socks’ since I began knitting it on the way to Coachella last weekend and worked on it the entire time I was there.

Then of course we have the gorgeous Kai Mei sock from the Cookie A Sock Innovation book.

This is the same sock from slightly different angles, I’m about 3/4 the way through the second sock and hope to have it finished sometime before graduation because since the graduation shawl didn’t work out, and then the attempt at a graduation scarf also went by the way side I believe I may just have to settle for graduation socks. Which is fine, since they’re the only thing you see from under the gown any ways. Is it silly to wear hand knit socks with high heels for special occasions?

And then of course we have spinning and fiber fun!

This is handspun I’m calling Gaia for it’s beautiful Earthy colors. It’s spun from a variety of fibers including a mystery batt from Rawfish Designs, some hand dyed merino roving from Kanagroo Dyer and a wee bit of fiber from Serendipity Fiber Arts in the form of a sample batt I received in the April Phat Fiber box. They all came together really beautifully I think. This is of course available for sale in my Etsy Shop. It’s 153 yards of roughly sport weight (12 WPI) in mostly merino with bits of other wool crosses, silk, mohair and a teensy bit of glitz. Also, I still have the Spring Cleaning sale going on in the shop so even though it’s a brand new item you can still get it for 10% off (15% if you have a Phat Fiber code or are on my mailing list!)

I also dyed some fiber yesterday as well, I had bought several ounces of farm fresh Lincoln lamb and mohair blend undyed fiber from Desert Garden awhile back and yesterday I dyed it up. I broke it up into smaller sections instead of dying it all the same color. I dyed several ounces of it to go with some milk fiber I dyed a while back that I will be sending to my dear friend Roo at Moonwood Farm to blend into a batt for me since I find the milk fiber nearly unspinnable in it’s current form.

Anyways, here’s the other sections of this great fiber that I dyed.

I love these Greener Shades dyes I’ve been using, I get such great vivid colors from them. I probably should put these rovings up for sale, but I have a feeling I’m going to keep them to spin myself, I just love them too much.

I also dyed some 100% hemp yarn yesterday as well to try out as wash clothes and other home/bath items.

Today, after I go take my Chemistry exam (which I’m leaving to do in about ten minutes), it’s dye day for May’s Rock Your Socks Off club yarns, some new sock yarns for Knit Las Vegas and some more lace weight for the Phat Fiber Etsy Shop.

Speaking of Knit Las Vegas if you haven’t been to the shop site in a while you owe it to yourself to go check it out again, our web mistress Amy has been working her cute little buhunkis off to make it a great and easily navigated site. We now have a blog (which has details for the Summer of Socks on it right now!) and a shop and a gallery and all kinds of cool stuff! So go check it out and if you live somewhere that doesn’t have a LYS, consider making us your online LYS, I promise you, we’re fun, we’re run entirely by self sufficient women who depend on this business to make their living entirely and we are big fans of making sure all of our customers online or in the actual shop get exactly what they’re looking for and end up with a beautiful and one of a kind finished item. In short; we’re awesome. (And soon you’ll be able to get special Dyed by DaniDo yarns exclusively dyed and spun for Knit Las Vegas through the website.)

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