Winter is coming

I am so terribly happy that winter is coming.

I do quite poorly in the summer... sunburns and too hot. But it is growing season for dye plants... so I deal!

But winter... knitting and spinning and homemade soup!
Today I made soup!!

I fried:
2 leeks, 1 onion, 1 portobello mushroom, and a thingy of fennel. I fried it in hazelnut oil.

I baked:
1 giant head of garlic... with hazelnut oil on it

I boiled:
2 purple potatoes, 2 regular potatoes, 2 carrots

I put them together with many spices in a pot with water, simmered for a bit, and then added two cups of coconut milk.

Then I took out half, blended it up, and put it back in the soup.

I WIN!

Then I made cheese biscuits.... but with chestnut flour and coconut flour. And put cocoa in them and on top. Also they have ground flax seed, baking powder, cream, and coconut milk.

MORE WINNING!

Also... i've been spinning like a madwoman. So much fractal spinning... (Learned from Felicia Lo of Sweet Georgia Yarns for Craftsy.com)

Out into the woods!

The darling one and I are going adventure-dating in the woods tonight. Ya camping!!!

This week I need to finish a knit bolero for a friend's wedding, and a shawl for another friend's wedding the week after. So many weddings!

Also... I just got two braids of fibre from Woolgatherings (www.woolgatheringsfibres.com) Of the fine alpaca... these are going to be spun into something, and then knit into a shawl for my Mother-in-law. She is such a great person. AND- she loves everything I knit for her! !!

What should I do!?

In knitting this garment from my handspun.
It's 90% Sweet Georgia Yarns Fibre. So lovely!

Should it be a....
Sweater
Cardigan (steeked!)
Short sleeved sweater
3/4 length sleeve sweater
Sweater dress

Culture crawl

Oh man!
So tired still!

I did the Culture Crawl (had my work in it) and I'm so exhausted! But happy.

I met what feels like ten thousand people, and now it's time to ready myself for Northern Ontario.

I'm in love

Fractal spinning has my heart

Finished!

I started a sweater on Friday, and finished it last night! Ends are woven in! Buttons are on!

It's Finn that I spun into thick and thin singles. I naturally dyed it.

I'm going to be wearing it today!!!

Dried and ready to go!

I've got 970 of naturally dyed Finn singles dried and ready to knit! Cardigan or hoodie!?

970

970 meters of handspun finn.

Now time to dye it...

Fire

This fibre is the color of fire!

It is dyed by Two Sisters with String, and is Colonial sheep fibre.

.... I'm in love!

Royal

Spun some Corriedale with some gold thread... And then Navajo plied it.

Thick and thin.

Not too much here... But I'm falling in love with spinning shiny things!

Spun

This was done today.

Now what should I make?

Also, my marigolds are ready to have their first harvest already!

Things today

Oh today!
Tonight was spinning night at the yarn store.
I met new people there! More people spinning!! (This makes me all of the happy!)

I spun some fiber from Two Sisters With Sting Works.
It is the fiber from a Jacob Sheep... THE MOST METAL SHEEP EVER!
(This is the song to listen to when you spin fiber from this animal!!)

Today was also the third day of this running nonsense that i've been doing. It hurts a little less today... but only a small bit.

A vest

I made a vest for a short little guy in my life. (he is almost two!)

I used my Handspun.... It is both knit and crochet.

And now

Today was great.

I spun a lot of fibre.
The sun was out.
I framed some artwork.

Where I got to go today!

The Sweet Georgia Studio!

I got to go today with Baaad Anna, her tiny person, and my darling one.

I may have gotten the greatest colour of fibre... (Rusted) in the Merino Silk.
I came home right away and spun it.

I am in LOVE.

... Now... What to make with it?

By hand

Hand dyed.
Hand spun.
Hand knit.
For Blinkus.

Clean

Burn all the sweetgrass and sage.
Dye all the fiber.
Spin all the wool.

Everything

I spun 200g of wool, got given Kenyan indigo and a beautiful necklace.
Someone also made me a sock.
I dyed the wool for it, with logwood.

All the loves.

Nomad yarn

Just got this in the mail
www.nomadyarns.com

It is hand spun camel from Mongolia.