A Long Forgotten Hobby

It has been over 3 months since I've picked up and finished a new book.  How could I have 'forgotten' to read?!  This is a quaint little number about a little village vicar who discovers a terrible secret... *drumroll*.    Have you read any great books lately?  I need to make a little 'to-read' pile!!

Also, this month, I am imposing an ebay and amazon ban upon myself.  I think I have a shopping problem.  But look at the teeny tiny cute owl dish!!!  Coooote.

The GORGEOUS fluff in the top picture is from Fondant FIbre, silky nommyness.  Would it be too much to ply the green and purple together?  Probably.  Maybe a nice grey jacob...


Rather excited for tomorrow becauuuuse... I'm off to visit Old Maiden Aunt's workshop with Lauren!  Considered taking the picnic basket but thought that was probably a little bit over the top.  I shall still take the contents though.  Train picnic!!!

Old Maiden Aunt has such amazingly glorious yarn I am never going to want to leave.  Apparently she has a woofy dog, so I'll come home smelling of sheep and dog and the guinea pig won't be very fond of me at all.

I've had a very productive couple of days off - my flat is now finally unpacked!  It only took 7 weeks...  You can now officially come to stay, because the second bedroom is no longer a tip and is now a proper room.  Bedclothes and all.

Anyhoo.  I am going to bed.  It is 2 am, and I seem to have developed a habit of not sleeping until far too late then sleeping through 16gazillion alarms.  Never fear, I've figured out a cunning plan;  I've set my phone alarm (thrice), the bedside alarm, the telly alarm in the living  room, and the PC alarm in the second bedroom.  So if I don't wake up for that lot on my own, I'm sure the police will wake me once the neighbours make a noise complaint.

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From Sheep to Shawl

Not long ago, you may have spotted a post about some lovely purple fleece I bought from Fondant Fiber!

Well, this week I decided I had to actually start using the pile of handspun amassing in the basket on the shelf, and turned it into this simple shawl :)

Thinking about making a cardigan next, which fleece would you recommend?  Would love a breed which spins up lovely and soft.  Not too floofy though!  It'll aaaall go up my nose.

 The pattern is very simple, and can be found free on Ravelry by Orange Flower.    Nice quick telly-watching knit :)

In case you've forgotten, here's what the fleece looked like a few weeks ago:

then to this:

 It still never fails to amaze me that we turn little piles of pretty fluff into garments :)   What's your favourite type of yarn to spin?

Perhaps one day I will live near some sheep and they will donate their wool to a jumpery cause.

Spinning Hand-dyed, Studying & Newspapers from Gramps

This week, I've had an awful lot of important things to be getting on with.  As a result, I have instead spent the week playing with fluff.  'To motivate myself'.  Yup.

Back to the things I'm supposed to be doing, my finals begin in a month or so.  Which is very, very, very scary.  To aid this, my grandad has started trying to educate me by posting me semi-relevant newspaper clippings :p  Love my gramps.  Who does this sort of thing except grampies?  Crazy Grampies.

Awesome grampies who do things such as ask the window cleaner to put owl statues into his gutters to keep the crows away.  That's those crows taught a lesson...  

To be fair, my yarny week was brilliant fun.  I recently bought some acid dye for my fluff stash, and mixing them to find different results was great.  My pot may be ruined, my floor may still be red, but check out how yummy this looks!!  The spun yarn ended up at 450metres of singles, so squishy :)

You might have read the lovely 'Cuppa & Cake' with Deborah last week!  If you haven't I'd go see now, she's lovely!   This is yet another skein from her amazing fluff, I really could (and have done) spin it all day.  

And that gradient cheviot yarn I've shown you already from Fondant Fibre?  It may be turning into a shawl...

Right.  I am off to study.  I am.

What're you doing this weekend?  Fill me in on your awesome fun stuff so I can live through you whilst sitting at my desk :p

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