It's been kind of a bitty week. I haven't been able to settle on one thing in particular, maybe it's the weather.
Knitting wise, having finished the felted present (well, apart form the embellishments, but I've still got nearly two weeks to do that...), I've now fully turned my attention to the Rivendell socks. After the previously mentioned boo-boo, I've actually ploughed on with them fairly well. Only problem is, they do need pretty much all of my brain cells, as noted last Wednesday night at Knit-Wits, when I only manged to knit 3 rows in 2 hours. I've onto the second chart for the first sock and hope to be turning a heel by the weekend, depending on how distracted I get by other things.
I've also been doing some more lovely spinning. This is some lovely mixed blue and purple rainbow form Wingham Wools, which should hopefully ply up at a rough sock yarn weight.
I still need a lot of practice, there are definitely sections which are pretty uneven and some that I believe will be underspun, but we'll see what happens when I apply the magic of plying.
Oh and I fell off the wagon for the first time since my spinning course. It was only a little fall, but it was worth it!
So much pretty! The fibre is corriedale from Babylonglegs. I don't think she'd had it up on Etsy for more than a few hours, I spotted a posting on Ravelry that led me to her and I couldn't resist!
In other unexpected news I've finally begun scrapbooking! I blame my friend, Twinkletoes, for this - I've been all inspired by her beautiful work! I only started last night and so far have just 3/4 of a page (it's missing a title), but it's a start.
As you can guess, Euan's scrapbook is first on the list. If I get that done, then I might even make a start on our wedding scrapbook (only eight years later - not bad!).
I've also signed up to a couple of challenges on Ravelry. One is the Tour de Fleece, where we spin every day (if we can) throughout the Tour de France duration, and the other, in the card makers group, is to make cards from our existing papercrafting stash - no new supplies allowed, during two weeks of our choice between now and the end of August. I'm seeing this as a great opportunity to get on top of the Christmas card making, for a change- if I can find room on my craft table now that all my scrapbooking materials are out, that is!
Throw in a couple of new Wii games, and some non-crafty real life, and I don't think I'll be standing still at all in the next couple of months!









