Finished things

I now have pics of the hat with me wearing it:

So what was he taking a picture of?

I showed my recent stash acquisition from Friday, in there was a couple skeins of a sport/dk weight purple yarn that also happened to be superwash. My oldest niece, Bailey loves purple. So I pulled these two skeins out and started the Making a Memory hat for her. It's a slouchy hat style, she's got long hair so she can stuff it up into the hat if she wants.

I also got the superwash corriedale Knitted Wit yarn done. The roving was called Summer Fun. I had originally thought to do it chain plied, but wanted to see what it would look like as a 2-ply. I had read in Ply about matching the color sections, but since its a superwash, didn't want to fuss with trying to get all the joins back up. So just let it barber pole:

689.6 yards of lace weight. That's definitely shawl material! Yes, its still a little over energized.

I was in that spin thin flow, and had re-organized some of the stash bins. Moved fiber that was in two smaller bins, into one larger bin. Moved sock yarn that wasn't filling a bin into a smaller one. You know, reorganizing. ;-) I didn't want the little batt of one ounce cashmere-camel to get felted/bashed up. So divided it in half and spun it up on two bobbins and then plied it:

 In progress

Comparing to the finished Muted Summer Fun lace

 All done!

Having problems getting that good detail on the close-up. Definitely a lace weight and 135.4 yards of it. I haven't found a pattern that I want to use it with. I have more cashmere and other yummy fibers in my stash, so may be able to add it to those as a finished project to knit up. I think dyeing will also happen. :-)

Okay, I sat down over a week ago and caught things up and spread them over the course of days to publish. Tuesday's post was the last of them, so I'm going to do two to bring things current again. This one and the one that will publish on Thursday. ;-)  Hope you don't mind, but it helps me make sure I post things.

Mini Fiber Fun

Pearl Fiber Arts celebrated their third Anniversary the weekend of October 19th & 20th. It was also the same weekend as Norm Thompson Outfitter's Sample Sale. Brandon had volunteered to work it so got $100 in apparel to spend. I'm a very lucky girl. ;-) I have new dresses and pants and a couple pairs of shoes from it. That was before the public got to go in on Saturday. I invited Dawn-Marie and Brent to come and they had fun shopping too. I found a folding foam mattress and an owl yard decoration.  Here's the foam mattress:

I wish that I could have gotten two, but there was only one. So will be on the look out for another! We can use it for camping.

I took my Halloween Witches Cat hat with me to the shop:

Amazon Local had a coupon for Supa and so I got two of their Deluxes. One with tomato soup and the Country sandwich and the other with the peanut soup and the Radix sandwich. I didn't sample the tomato soup and should have. It had red peppers in it. Even William didn't enjoy it. The mushroom soup was a tiny bit spicier than I would have liked, or I would have gotten it. Need to go back to taste the clam chowder.

I used my Stash Sale money and a little bit to pick up some fiber from Alexandra's Crafts trunk show:

 BFL in Black Rose colorway

Merino-Silk in Wine

Sale yarns. I had thought about using them to make a Despicable Me hat, but the blue isn't blue enough. I did buy some cake dyes, so could possibly overdye it and try for something darker. 

I also got the second edition of Ply the magazine. It has a nice heavy paper and lovely paper. I might try one of the plying suggestions. Not sure that it was worth the $11 for it though for me. Wish I had been able to get down to the other magazine that there was a trunk show for. 

Finished the hat:

Yarns are all Knit Picks. The red and dark orange are leftover from the Jayne hat. The lighter orange was actually a DK. I have leftovers still of the non-black colors and just a couple yards of the black. 

I also bought some fiber from Paradise Fibers:

 Merino top - 8 ounces

Fake cashmere - 8 ounces

I mentioned the cake dyes I bought. I also have some natural dyes. I want to pull those and my undyed fibers in my stash and play with dyeing. 

Right now, I'm spinning up some superwash Corriedale called Summer Fun by Knitted Wit: