Hello!!

I hope everyone is surviving the heat of summer. I have been busy spinning and knitting the last few weeks and I feel like I have gotten a lot accomplished. I have been working on some dish cloths for my aunt which has been fun because I have been experimenting with new dish cloth patterns. I love to try new patterns and I have been loving the fact that my knitting knowledge is finally at a level where I can print off a pattern and be able to look at it and know what all the abbreviations mean and be able to knit the more complicated patterns without needing to ask a more experienced knitter for help.

A lovely basket of dish cloths!

I thought I would spread them all out so you could see them.

These colors were specifically asked for.
These are the new denim yarns from sugar and cream.

I have also been working on my Juneberry shawl which I showed pictures of in a previous post. I haven't taken any pictures of the progress of my juneberry as the needles I am using are circulars and they are a little shorter in length than I should have had. But I will be making the juneberry again for my mom so I am hoping to be able to picture document my progress as I knit that one.

I mentioned in my last post that I had finished 2 more reversibles and here are the pictures of them. I think they all turned out adorable. Pardon the amount of pictures of them, I wanted everyone to get an idea of what they looked like. :)

This is the lion and elephant.

Isnt he cute??

They are made so that one side tucks up into the other to maket he body portion.

And this one is called the sisters.

I made the sisters for a lady at my church and she gave it to her granddaughter. I'm excited to make more and I hope that I will eventually be able to make a few to tuck away for when I get married and have children of my own.

On the spinning front I have been spinning 2 different types of fiber. I am working on  merino silk blend that I am spinning lace weight and I have already spun up a spindle full that is waiting for me  to spin up another one so that I can ply it together.

Here is the fiber before I started spinning it.

And here are some pictures of the first spindle full. : )

The silk adds a nice sheen to the fiber.

I have also been working on spinning up some pure alpaca that a friend gave me. I have about a pound of this alpaca and it is a lovely white color. Here are some pictures of the alpaca and also of the first bobbin that I have spun up. :)

As you can see I am spinning it up very fine.

I recently finished spinning up 2ozs of some merino that I got at a fiber festival last fall and I hand painted it myself. I really enjoyed spinning fiber that I had dyed myself it just makes the yarn a little more special when you have put that much work into it. Here are some pictures of the roving and the first spindle of plied yarn. I am excited to see the finished yarn and knit it up into something special for myself.

This roving and yarn is shades of green,teal and white.

The colors aren't exactly as bright as I had wanted but I still love the way it turned out.

Lastly I will leave you with a picture of baby toy I made its called a bunny blanket buddy.

I hope you enjoyed my post and I look forward to any comments people leave. I hope you enjoy your week. :)

Happy 4th of July!

I hope ya'll had a wonderful holiday! My family and I went camping for the weekend and got to much sun but I had a wonderful holiday celebrating Americas freedom! The last month I have been working on my spinning and I have done some knitting but the majority of my time has been taken up with spinning. I have spun up a spindle full of the merino silk blend I'm guessing that I spun up about 2 oz. but I'm not sure on the exact amount. I love how the colors have come out in it as I have spun. I am spinning this merino silk in a lace weight and I will ply it together so I have a 2 ply yarn. I have also been spinning on my alpaca roving and I'm spinning that lace weight also. I know that is a lot of work to do 2 lace weight spinning projects at the same time but I am enjoying it so far. I have been spinning the merino silk but now that I have a spindle full I have switched to the alpaca. I will have to let the twist on the merino blend sit awhile so that it can relax, other wise it will tangle up with itself when I go to ply it.  In the knitting area I have knitted some more on my juneberry triangle and I am almost done with the last chart and then I will only have the edging chart left! I am super excited to get it done it looks so fuzzy and warm I almost wish it was cooler out so I can snuggle up with it. But I am enjoying the warm weather. I have finished 2 more reversible and I am working on a third one. I know that is a lot  of reversible toys to make but I still will need to make at least 3 or 4 more. I know a lot of people having babies this year! But I enjoy making them. So far I have made the turtle and frog which is featured in a blog I did a few months ago and I have done the lion/elephant and the sisters. The lion and elephant took me the longest because that one had the most  parts on it so that was a little more time consuming.  But they all turned out adorable and I am very happy about how they have all turned out. Well that's all I haev for now I hop ya'll have a good week.