I need better pictures.

One of the reason I get tired of blogging is my picture quality. I am only home it seems when it’s starting to get dark, and I have no natural light… plus, my skills just aren’t that great. Then I see blogs with pictures that look so professional and perfect!!

I need better pictures. Maybe I should make a light box for yarn pictures?

I got my first Sundara Yarn from the Seasons Collection! I picked the “spring” season, and I received such a beautiful skein of sock yarn called “Beach Glass”. It’s perfect.

I also bought 2 skeins of laceweight Malabrigo on my way home from seeing my mom after her surgery.

I also picked my Swallowtail back up, after encouragement from the Stash and Burn group on Ravelry. Luckily, there was a lifeline in it so I could rip back to the beginning of a chart. My swallowtail isn’t hard, I just got distracted and forgot where I was….. Though, I’m already thinking about another swallowtail. I won’t put the next one down mid-way.

I love lace, but lately I haven’t had the mind for it. I feel like I’m getting ready to implode. I’m being pulled in so many different directions, and when I get home at night I just feel ready for bed and nothing else. I have two weddings coming up – I’m in one and my husband’s in the other. With those comes showers, one of which I’m throwing. My husband quit his job, and we are in the midst of setting up his office so he can go into private business. And our house – our house… always something going on here.

My second handspun

I finished up my second handspun. It was from Yarn Love roving, and spun on my Ladybug.

(Sorry about the dark photos, I took them last night after I got off call.)

Back from Chicago

You didn’t even know I was going to Chicago? Well, neither did we. I got a vacation this week, and we had nothing planned. Friday night, we decided spur of the moment, – hey let’s go to Chicago. We booked a hotel late Friday night, while frantically packing. And so, we left Saturday morning.

The view from our hotel at the Raffaello

We went to the Field Museum and saw Sue.

We walked down Navy Pier.

And viewed Chicago from the 94th floor of the Hancock Building at night. Which I cannot get Photobucket to put in vertically….. but you get the idea…..

And I did some yarn shopping at loopyyarns, and bought some Manos silk and some beautiful Koigu!

It was a nice trip, even if it was a spur of the moment decision!

WIP: House stuff

I have given up on ever having a knitted FO! Things are just so hectic here lately. Between work, this house, and life… well… *sigh* I barely have time to sleep.

So here is a before:

Here is a now shot:

This is the same room from this post.

Oh, and I do have some yarn happiness. I bought some Wollmeise off a Ravelry person and it should arrive this week. AND I got myself into the Sundara Yarn Club. The two yarns I wanted so badly! Yay!

Conversations in the Locker Room

This took place in the locker room at work as I was getting ready to leave:
Me:  Hi Liz, and yes, I have on two bras.  Don’t ask.

Liz:  We have the weirdest conversations.

I will have photos of spinning stuff later this week!

The World Is Out of Balance

.. and hell has frozen over…

I joined a gym.  And I went.  And I hurt.

My First Handspun

I present to you – my first handspun yarn. I dunked it into a waterbath after this photo was taken. I am going to knit *something* with it. I’m not sure what, but I just have to knit it!

Also, my porch steps were very rotted, and here is a before:

Here is after:

A Funny for You

I love Natalie Dee. Here’s today’s:

nataliedee.com

Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly to MY Home

I said I wanted a ladybug, and my husband ordered it and surprised me with it. I didn’t know he ordered it until it showed up!

I have never did any spinning, and I used to think I never wanted to learn to spin. I don’t know what happened… like I need another hobby!

Here it is being unpacked.

This is where my ladybug sits (sorry about the blurred picture)

I needed help with the tension string, and some really wonderful girl named Abbyknitz on Ravelry helped me out.

First little bit on the bobbin – uhm, I guess it’s good I can even get it on the bobbin considering I’ve never touched a wheel in my life. My first goal was to figure out how to treadle and just use the wheel in general.

Manic Bunny

The electricians have been here. It’s been chaos, random rooms having electricity then the next day not.. And poor Loverbunny has been manic. He had to go on kitty pills for anxiety.

I’m slowly knitting on my Apres Surf Hoodie.

And I have to get on my soapbox a little. I’m frustrated about not being able to get certain yarns. I am working every single day, and I don’t have time to check and check for updates (at work they don’t let the nurses have access to the internet at all).  I keep missing out on Wollemeise and Sundara. The Wollemeise sold out on Loopy Ewe in 3 minutes! I guess I should just get over it, but I just had to vent my frustrations. I think I want it more now that I can’t get it….

I don’t need to be buying it anyway, because I plan on buying myself a spinning wheel soon. I am thinking about getting a Ladybug. I am a little worried I won’t like it and be out lots of money, but I want a nice wheel to learn with. Originally, I was going to try and buy a cheap, used one, but the more I think about it, the more I think I’ll be better off with a new wheel.