3 Projects finally completed

I've been trying to reduce my unfinished project corner. I've managed to finish three more projects (I only took pics of two though). The first was my nephew's bulldozer hat I made on the knitting machine. It was royal blue with caterpillar yellow bulldozers on it. My sister says that he loves it, he won't go out of the house without it on.

The next project is my daughters hat. This one was done from scratch. I wash and dyed a blue-face fleece that I got a while ago and processed it at our mill. I added some angelina to the roving as well, just to give it a little sparkle. Then I spun it on my Kromski Minstrel and knitted it on the knitting machine.

I think it came out really cute. You can't really see the little sparkles in the pic, but you can when your holding it.

The third is also a hat. I was making it for my husband, but I kind of like it myself so I'm not sure who will be using it more. This one is also out of blue-face, but a natural colored dark brown fleece. I spun it up a while ago and didn't really know what to make, but when I saw a pattern in the spin off magazine this yarn called out to me, so I figured I would give it a shot.

It came out a little on the big side, but I'm sure it will tighten up when I wash it so I'm not worried about it. I like it because it is nice a light compared to the machine knitted hats. It has a lot more give to it.

Now that I have finished all of these projects I can start working on something new. I made up some batts of assorted alpaca and wool seconds from the mill and it think I am going to try and spin some of this up since I never spun from a batt I think that I will be fun to try. The batts are supper soft even though they are from seconds. The alpace that they come from are super fine alpaca so there really isn't any bad fiber on them. Well wish me luck..... I'l let you know how it turns out.

What a great X-mas!!!!

This year was so much fun. Our 2 yr old finally had an idea of what was going on. She kept telling us that she wanted Santa to bring her a red toy and a blue toy:). She ripped through all her presents so fast (along with everyone elses as well).

Here She is ripping through one of her gifts as happy as can be.

Here I am probably telling her to slow down just like my parents used to tell us to. It's kind of scares me that I really do sound like my parents when I swore that that would never happen, hahahaha.

Since start up a new business and all money was rather tight this year to say the least. So I asked my husband for only one thing which was a Tom Forrester Spindle and my wish came true. I absolutely love it. I've never spun on a spindle so I wasn't sure if I would like it, but it works great. I got a light weight (29 oz) to spin sock weight yarns on. I can't wait to spin well enough to use it in a pair of socks for myself.

Here is a pic of the top view and on the right is a pic of the first spindle spun yarn ever!!! It didn't come out to bad, but I have a long way to go before it will be consistant.