Stars and Stripes Forever

Happy Fourth of July! I love this holiday, because it's the perfect reason to enjoy summer. Celebrate our freedom by having parties and barbecues and fireworks? Of course! Because we can! That's the point! It's awesome. (To be fair, I do also try to keep in mind why we can. Also the point of the holiday.) After all, freedom is the right of all sentient beings. (Points if you get that reference...)

But today is also WiP Wednesday, and since I missed Handspun Monday, I'm gonna get this one. Late, I know, but hey. I've been busy. We've had people here. Including small ones. Adorable small ones. Even my man found them adorable. But now that all our friends have gone home, I've taken pictures of my slow progress on the blanket for the newest small one. No stars, just stripes...



And by the way, we brought the important small one upstairs with her mommy to see the awesome painting job that her daddy did in our yarn room, and of course she was fascinated with Merriweather. I'll make a spinner of that little girl, just you wait... muahahahahahaha!!!

And now, if my neighbors ever stop setting off fireworks, I'm going to sleep. G'night!

Belated Post

Okay so I haven't been home much this week. So I'm lame and didn't post on Wednesday. And I didn't post on Friday. But I do have yarn pr0n. Or yarn voyeurism. Pics taken from the door of the yarn room. It now has all of my mom's yarn in it, and today I'm moving my yarn in.




Woohoo! It's starting to look lived-in :D

Also, I have pics of a necklace I made for a friend. It only took, ya know, three tries or so before I was happy with it. I won't give a gift that I don't like.






My friend has a thing for fused glass pendants, so I figured that she might be able to put one on the necklace. Might need a jump ring or something, but it could work...

And yes, I'm still working on the baby blanket. Not making as quick progress as I'd like to make, but it's coming along. Little by little...

Handspinner's Guide to the Galaxy

Sorry I'm late! I didn't have pictures last night that I could post when I wrote my post about Cowboy Mouth. So now I have pictures, and they are of the first yarn I have spun on Ford!!!

I took this:


And spun it into this:


What's that you say? It just looks like a blob of black and starry? Okay, here ya go:


It's cabled. My first successful cabled yarn! I spun the whole bobbin full and then Andean plied it onto itself once and then once more. A note to those who prefer Andean plying: a whole bobbin is a LOT of yarn to wind onto your hand. I used a chopstick as a splint to keep my finger from bending back, but it still got a little uncomfortable. Worked like a charm, though :)

And some extra pictures... the yarn room is ready for the stash! It's mostly furnished (Mom and I are looking for a table to place in the middle of the room, where the swift and ball winder will live), we just need to move the stash in. Wanna see?






It's a happy place :)