Fabulous Feather

Toile Envy

Ash is having some jealousy issues.

Ash hits Spin City

  Meet Ash.  Ash was made from a pattern in the Knitted Babe's book .  FF says she looks a little like me, in knitted form.  Don't know if that is good or bad BUT she will most likely be wearing a veil until we get back from our honeymoon.  It is a good thing that she has it too - otherwise she would be naked.  I am at the point where there are TOO MANY PROJECTs on the need to make/want to make list AND now I am spinning.

Look Beth:   Right now I have pie in the oven and a uncooperative computer at my fingertips - otherwise I would rotate the image. I took a spinning class today at Hunt Country Yarn.  I brought my own wheel.  Bob, my teacher said  that really all I need was someone to adjust my wheel and give me some pointers.  I did all of this today.  The Oasis yarn is for of my Christmas projects.

  Here is another shot of Ash, reclining on what will become a Fair Isle hat for Dad for Christmas.  I bought this yarn today.  He has a red ski jacket so I think that the colors will work.

Finally here is a shot of the Christmas flowers. They are growing!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Life's Little Lessons and Friendship and rambles

  Several weeks ago I attempted to post this image and thank Beth for the lovely surprise gift.  She sent me beautiful roving, a lavender sachet and a really cute note pad.  Thank you Beth!!  I love it!!

Since then, the conference went well, the sweatshirt is completely finished, as is the scarf for FF's grandmother, a hat has been re-seamed and another scarf has been started.  The sweatshirt is still too fricken short.  It is frustrating because she looks so lovely on the floor or on a bed.  On my body, she makes me look dumpy.  The fit is bad enough that I could not even bring myself to wear her for a quick solo errand to the mall.  At some point in the not too distant future I am going to order some simple turtle necks from LL bean.  I am hoping that something magical will happen if I wear one of these  flat turtle necks under the sweater (versus a t shirt or ribbed turtle neck).  How a flat turtleneck will help her grow is beyond me, but it is my pipe dream and I am sticking with it.  Beth & I gabbed today & she made my heart feel lighter when she brought up the sweatshirt mess on her own and was totally sympathetic.  I am now gun shy about Marlow and have put her on hold for a spell.

Here is a group shot.  These inanimate objects had their own little gab fest while the shot was assembled.  The blue scarf gave the sweatshirt a stiff talking to and commanded it to grow like the she did.  The purple scarf said "look at me, I am trying to grow and we only have the attached ball left AND She wants the last six yards for oogles of fringe, but look, I am growing!!".  The hat chimed in that even when it was bad and needed to re-seamed (and did not fully cooperate with the second round either!!) that at least SHE smiles when she tries me on.  Then there is the spindle that is all a twitter because I may start playing with that tonight.  Finally there is the earring and necklace.  The earring taught me a valuable lesson. 

Body cream on hands+open drain+ predawn hour+ Monday= bad things.  Yesterday I put on a scented body cream & then attempted to put on an earring only to loose it down the drain.  The earrings and necklace are an unusual set that I adore.  I was very upset.  We tried to unscrew the plastic pipes last night to no avail.  Last night I even had an odd dream about the earring that involved popping my eyeball out as part of the earring retrieval process and then having to have a nail inserted via a nail gun through my ear, to hold my eye in my head, once it was reinserted.  We won't even get into who had the honors of using the nail gun . .. odd.  Very odd.  at any rate, today I picked an odd claw-like devise at Home Depot & after thirty minutes of trying finally got the earring out.  Yeah!! Wahoo!

Finally, here is a shot of the start of our home.  I am so excited!!  The window is part of the basement.