Oops, we’re alive

It’s been awhile since the last time either of us posted; sorry about that. We’ve both been pretty busy, and let’s face it, we both have ADD when it comes to long-term projects.

Boy: Whatcha doing?

Me: Updating S’s and my fiber blog.

Boy: A FIBER BLOG? You have a FIBER BLOG? Bahahahahahaha!

::stabbing ensues::

Anyway, someone besides the Boy asked about the blog on Ravelry the other day, which reminded me “Hey, it’s been seven months, I should post something…” except that now I’m not positive where to start. After Greencastle, I actually missed most of the festival season except for a day at Hoosier Hills (in which I won two blue ribbons for spinning, end shameless self-promotion here). S went to Corydon, and our friend JE was insanely lucky and got to go to Rhinebeck to help out at the Susan’s Fiber Shop booth. She and I also went to the SOAR marketplace for a day, and I came home with Abbybatts and a pound of brown Polwarth from Rovings.

Oh yeah! We both took spinning classes with Abby Franquemont at the end of the summer- I took the morning “Spinning for Production and Speed” class or whatever it was called, and S took the “Spinning for Socks” class the same afternoon. Can’t speak for S, but my class was lots of fun and went way too quickly, and I picked up a few little tricks that will hopefully improve my speed a bit. Plus, Abby had batts for sale.

On the actual spinning end of things, I’ve been reasonably productive this year considering that I do almost all of my spinning on a spindle (plying happens on the wheel, though). The Amazing Awesome Roving that I wrote about last time has been turned into yarn, though I still need to dye some white Cormo in a color gradient for stripes in the envisioned sweater. There has been a lot of other yarn created along the way, too, and some of it has even been knitted up into various objects, mostly socks and one small shawl/wrap thing that I really should get pictures of, because I think it’s gorgeous.

Lately I’ve also re-discovered how much fun my drum carder is, and that it is indeed possible to steam fiber in a crockpot, so there’s plenty of activity going on with those. I scored a huge haul of fiber-related goodness for birthday/Giftmas last week, and The Fold’s annual New Year’s Sale is coming up, so after that I may have to go on a stash reduction diet for awhile.  Not so hard to do when there are two pounds of Targhee and two of Polwarth undyed top to contend with, not to mention a bin of batt food, and stuff like the super-soft Polwarth from Beth’s that I got last year that I just haven’t been able to bring myself to spin.

(Take a wild guess as to what my current favorite fiber is. No, really, go ahead.)

M

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