Soooooooo Close

I'm finally on the last Clue of Mystic Waters! WOO FREAKIN HOO!!!

Yes I know I am weird for knitting on straights, but there it is: I'm weird. I spread it out as well as I could while not taking it off my needles (pure laziness I assure you) and I am starting the last clue!! Oh yeah I said that already. I'm forcing myself to finish this one before I cast on for Ice Queen (look it up, it's a folk tale that I read when I was a very little girl and it's charming. Mind you I still have the book I read it from) Anyhoo I was shopping for laceweight at my favorite little spot for Bad Nauheim and my favorite supplier was MISSING on ebay. Hello heartattack.

I finally emailed them asking if they had moved to an ecommerce site, or were on vacation or what. After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, it turns out they're just on vacation. However, I can't wait for them to return before I start something new, but I do have stash that will suit for some of the stuff I want to do.

Visit tomorrow for a photo of the Ice Queen supplies. I might have to buy a needle, not quite sure.

And Broken Barn, darnit! Frozen doors are not funny! lol, you jackass. And "our" Lake is actually Lake Macatawa. This is a photo of Lake Michigan taken just about 1.5 miles from our house. The Chief took it. He is really quite a whiz with the old shutter and lens is he not? I had to crop it to fit it, but I love the path leading to the water in the distance. It reminds me of journeys. Thanks for the compliment!

Well far be it from me. . . .

to let inquiring minds go unsatisfied. My spinning post about Mystic Waters got a comment with a question.

Gammy aka Peggy said...
WOW, that spun silk is gorgeous. Are you going to ply it with something else or another spindle? How many ounces do you have? Enquiring minds you know.


Well, Peggy, you inquisitive and presumably lovely young lady, I'm glad you asked. The short answer is: I dunno yet. I am toying with the idea of plying with a red, silky shiny embroidery thread (because let's face it, in Bam's world you just can't be too shiny or sparkly), but haven't made up my mind yet. Also, thank you for the lovely compliment. I am half tempted to just leave it spun up on the bobbin forever because it really has a lovely sheen. I have 8 ounces dyed, but I have only spun about half right now. Unless I am gravely mistaken, I will need 650 m and I do believe I am there by now. Peggy, I suspect you will know what I'm talking about when I say that I just like to fondle the spun yarn on the bobbin. If you are the Peggy of knittingandspinningwithewe fame, hey how crazy is it that I left you a comment yesterday and you left me one too? Is life nuts or what? But I digress.

Now that begs a question from me. Do I just keep spinning and assume I will find something to do with the rest? (Ice Queen springs to mind although I have enough yarn in the stash for the whole friggin royal court in ice right now) or maybe figure I'll ply the rest and do something completely different with it? The silk has like zero stretch, so what will I do with the rest? Contest prize it off like I did with the red silk hanky I spun up and enclosed with a prize (you can see it here)

My goodness I'm indecisive today. Perhaps its the whole "third snow day off of school in two weeks" thing. Number five and I tried to go get chili dogs for lunch and my car was frozen shut. What the!? Poor guy had to settle for sloppy joes.

Conspiracy UNCOVERED!

Ok so it's not a secret that I'm weird. Tonight I was watching that old Flash Gordon movie from 1980. Don't pretend you don't know the one I mean. The ones with Sam J. Jones with the feathered hair. Remember that one? The one where you were really young, but he gave you a tingle somewhere that you didnt even understand? Yeah that one. Anyway, The Chief pointed out something disturbing.

The Chief referencing Sam J. Jones: Hey, he looks like that Punkd kid. Whats his name?

Me: (duh) silence

The Chief: Ashton Kutcher right?

Me: Well dang if he doesnt!

You be the judge. Ashton Kutcher, cloned genetic double of Sam J. Jones with a hair color that actually happens in nature?






Cloning already back in 1978? Lovechild? What's your take on this?

Yeah Sometimes I wonder too.

Why do I wait so long to post? Then I have tons of stuff to say and I hate long posts!

First of all: I WON!! I WON!! Here is my prize for guessing Barn E. Quat's weight. (Check out the contest I won here) I haven't guess what the Ken doll pants are for yet!


I'm about half finished with spinning the silk for MysticLight Shawl Knitaling. It's turning out beautiful, but I may overdye with red again after. It's really not as dark as I had intended. Overall I'm pretty happy with the result so far.



Oh yeah, and that IS my Mystic Waters in the background. I have a clue left to go, but am suddenly taking off on it again.

Last of all! No idea if I've ever mentioned this before, but I have really long hair. I decided that in May, I will give it a chop and donate it to Locks of Love. Donating my hair is something I've thought of, but I didn't think they would take mine because I color it (oh yeah, i'm gray ya'll, at the ripe old age of 33, I am really GRAY) Anyway, it turns out they will take it. Should be fun!

Seriously, does this outfit make my ass look fat?

Haha! Made ya look.

The beauty of pretty socks (and shoes for that matter) is that you never have to ask that dirty, dirty question. The one all men DREAD. Does this make my ass look fat? Cuz no, socks, as long as they fit and are comfy and warm can NEVER make your ass look fat!

And that is why you should all be knitting some socks right now.

This pattern is Embossed Leaves designed by Mona Schmidt from Interweave Press 25 Favorite Socks. It's my fave sock book (at least for right now), and they are knit from hand dyed superwash wool sock yarn that I bought from Gentle Sunset on Etsy. Last time I looked, she had not dyed more yarn for sale lately, but hey keep checking back. It's really beautiful in person. I was going to save these to be my February socks for the Sock a Month Knitalong I've joined, but I decided to give myself a goal of spinning the sock yarn for my February socks, so I couldn't use these.

Do you think they match my pajama pants? Oh yeah folks, those are my jammies. We're having another snow day here in lovely West Michigan!

I still love snow!

This is what I woke up to this morning. Pretty huh?



I've been spinning the silk roving I dyed on Monday. I'll have a photo for ya'll tomorrow! I'm also working on the embossed leaves socks. I think I'll be done in a day or two.

Damn It Feels Good to be a Spinna!

Ok so we have the Officespace reference out of the way for the day.

I've been spinning. Here's the blue/purple roving that I dyed spun up. There will be several more skeins (off the top of my head, I'm guessing two more), but its turning out really pretty. It's actually a bit darker, and purpler irl, but you know how the colors can be to try to capture



Earlier today, I dyed the tussah roving for Mystic Light KAL. I'm almost finished with Mystic Waters already and should have a photo in about two weeks (tops).

Here is the roving being "cooked".