Sooooooo much to say:

I didn't realize it's been several days since I updated this. I've been so engrossed in stuff that I totally lost track of time. Wanna know what I've been engrossed in? Here's a rundown:

Spinning- I'm on my 5th cheese of pencil roving for my aunts throw. I also brought out my spindle for some handdyed (by me) roving last night.

Crocheting- I started the throw, and have about 5 or 6 rows. I'm just doing a big rectangle slightly larger then 50x60" (I'm just measuring it against a throw that I have) so far I have about 4 of the 60". I'm also making a Puff n stuff scarf to swap with the matching hat for a necklace from a fellow indie. And I finished, except for the edging I need to pull out and just without a scarf for a scarf swap.

Knitting- I practiced a bit, with different yarns to find the right one two try, and am now working on a scarf. I'm using some neat colored mill-end Lion Brand Homespun to make Nick a scarf.

Harry Potter- I'm now on book 5, and have another gameboy game- The Quidditch World Cup, which I also have on PC but it is so much easier on my gameboy.

Yarn buying- Lots of new yarns here. My Knitpicks order came today, and I spent some time on Saturday at AC Moore (Yes, Mom I got you a pack of quilling paper) .

Digital Scrapbooking- I recently heard more about digital scrapbooking, and decided I had to try it, not with the intention of actually doing it, but I must try everything once. I LOVED it right away. I was useing a free trial program, but Saturday we went to Curcuit City and I ended up with a brand new drawing tablet which came with the program I wanted. I love my drawing tablet!!!!! And I've been scrapbooking up a storm since I got it.

Dyeing- Remember all that plain roving? Well some of it is no longer plain. I spent a lot of time yesterday in the kitchen with some kool-aid and wet roving. I ended up with some great stuff! I did the method which makes it vareigated, and then have been redyeing each set with a complimentory color to help fill it in more. So red with a pinkish color. Pink lemonade with regular lemonade.

Here's enough photos to slow even the fastest internet-
Red roving. Cherry overdyed with strawberry kiwi.

I read that an once of roving is about feet long, so I did 3 arm lengths, I haven't weighed it but it should be a little over and once worth. I used this "meaure" for all the dyed roving.


I hope thes epictures don't disclose me to my secret pal. I'll be sending her some, so if she sees these pictures she'll know who I am, but I just have to share!



And some yarn spun from it:
This is just about a yard of roving. Most of my dyes I did the 3 arms length and just a yard or so sample length.











Blue Roving- from Berry Blue. I haven't overdyed it yet, but and going to use Ice Blue to do it.
















I just LOVe this roving. Pink Lemonade followed by a regular lemonade overdye. Just dreamy. I need to come up with a neat name for it.












This cotton turned out a dreamy color using just orange koolaid, in teh microwave, with no overdye, but the cotton didn't take to dyeing very well. It's a useless lump. The color is incredible though! But notice all the dye on the papertowels :(

The blue and red roving I used the stovetop, the lemonade and orange I used the microwave. I prefer the stovetop method now that I've tried both. It takes a little longer, but the colors seem more colorfast. When I rinsed the stovetop ones hardly any dye came out, the microwave ones had alot come out. The stovetop method is a better do it and walk away method.

This has been done forever, but I don't think i ever shared it. I was going to leave it as singles, but now that I have a ballwinder I might ball it, then spin both ends to ply. I think it'll be stronger that way. By the way it's much prettier then in the picture








This has been done since the weekend my parents came, but I don't remember sharing it before. It's the Dinner Mints roving. Beautiful stuff this yarn!










Here is a bunch of my spun (and plyed) pencil roving yarn just stacking up on the bookshelf. I've used about 2 balls so far. and I still have 2.5 cheeses to spin. I hope I ordered enough roving!

Notice the recycled silk yarn awaiting the ball winder.







Here's a picture of the throw so far. Not much to see really. It looks more like a belt then a throw. But it is working up fairly quickly.
























The ugly shawl is finished except weaving in the ends, and I may do like a shell edging or something. Wonder why it's called the ugly shawl? Here's a close-up of the yarn. In all actually though I really love it! I don't think it's as ugly as when I started.




















The Puff n Stuff scarf is just a few rows of puff stitches at the ends and single crochets for the body. It's abotu 4 inches wide. I think I'm about 1/3 done.










Here's a close-up to show the pattern. I hope it isn't as dark as it suddenly looks.












Sick of pictures yet? To bad I still have TONS more! About 8 or so to go.

The knitted scarf in progress. I'm just making every row with knit stitches. then I'm going to make a scarf using nothing but purl stitches. To help me get better at each one before combinding them.














Here's a closeup of the scarf so far.













The pattern of the yarn I'm using is just amazing. I wanted to share it. It looks like the scarf will be heading towards a blue patch.











Here's the scarf i'm doing for the scarf exchange. It's the curly scarf on the cover of the current Interweave Knits Crochet issue. Fun to make and only 4 rows. The yarn is kinda vintage and I ran out before i had enough to do the edging. I'm debating using a different yarn, or letting it go without. Have I ever mentioned I'm addicted to magazine subscriptions? The scarf is laying on a stack of about 6 I haven't even touched yet sicne I brought them in from the mail.




Onto the yarn!

My knitpicks order. I got (i'll try to go from top left corner to bottom right corner) Simple Stripes in Sunset for sock. GREAT yarn!! Parade sock yarn in Forest. Wool of the Andes, only $1.79 per ball and not scratchy! in Blue Bonnet. Shadow yarn in Jewels, beautiful, simply beautiful! 5 skiens to make a shawl or something. Alpaca Cloud yarn in Tidepool, which is a beautiful blends of colors. It's soft. It's just amazing! And Gossamer in Caribbean. The second row has Dancing yarn in Jig. This is pretty stuff! The dancing yarn just looks different then I expected, and it it so neat. Followed by Simple Stripes in Vineyard. And Merino Style in Moss.
Here's some various close-ups of the order.

Sock yarns.













Wool of the Andes in Blue Bonnet, Merino Style which is much prettier green then it looks, and
Shadow Jewels.














Alpaca Cloud in Tiedpool. I think I could buy nothing but this yarn ever again and be completely happy. And Gossamer.











Here's some of my AC Moore purchases. I also bought some stuff for my pal, that obviosuly I won't be sharing with you, and the paper for my mom. I got three skiens fo gray homespun for a prayershawl, some size 8 needles, a needle gauge to try making my own, a mini stack of fall themed scrapbook papers, a bag of homespun mill ends $5 for one lb!!






Here's a digital scrapbook page to give you an idea of what I'm talking about:





And on the regular stuff: Today I finallllly went to the bank and came home to find, try to guess...........















Saturday when I drove to AC Moore my keys never ended up back in my purse! I was locked out!!!!! I went to the neighbor who I know has a key, but she didn't come to the door, so I went to the other neighbor to try to figure out what to do. I feel like such an idiot! The neighbor with the key was apparently in the shower, she gave me the key, and all ened without me climbing over the back fence to hang out for several hours until Nick got home!

Then just now while uploading the massive amount of pictures you just looked at I took a bite of my pizza lunch and seriously burned my mouth. I mean really really bad, no doubt the worst burn ever in my life. I'm in serious pain!!!!

and that is I do believ all that is new in my life. Ready for more pictures???


Oh and just in case you're wondering, I started writing this message a 1:49, nonstop and it's now 3:13!!!