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for the pics! On to the pics.
A couple of the baby gifts:

The handspun:

The handspun socks:

My beloved space invader sock, still missing the toe in the pic:

The color on everything is pretty accurate, except the yellow baby sweater…it’s more vibrant than my crappy picture.
And my new haircut…you can’t really see that it’s been cut, but [...]

Almost 2 weeks without a post. Wow.
Lets see…there are the baby gifts that finally got finished. An adorable yellow cardigan with blue fish buttons, 2 baby dresses (one in pink with a white ribbon, one in cream with a green ribbon), and 2 baby hats which you’ve already seen. The pic of [...]

Awhile ago, I decided to sort of break away from following a pattern and try to come up with a sweater. I grabbed my copy of The Knitter’s Book of Handy Sweater Patterns and used the raglan sweater instructions as a guideline. The body of the sweater went along quickly, but when it [...]

…stuff.
I bought some of Aija’s roving last week. It’s SO wonderful, and I had to start spinning it as soon as I got it.

While we’re on the spinning topic, my 2 ply from a couple posts ago, washed and skeined up.

On to the knitting. I’ve been doing some super seeecret knitting. A [...]

I had this whole post written, with links to posts with older attempts at the shawl, and pics of frogging. It was ready to go, all I had to do was put in the pics. And then I took them. And words don’t do it justice. See for yourself.

The last pic [...]

I can’t seem to spin a decent 2 ply yarn. I have no problems creating a great navajo ply, which requires a lot more coordination for me to do. Today, after adding almost 30 more points to the tea shawl (49 more to go and then blocking!!), I felt the need for a [...]