hey.... Blaine!

thanks for your comment on my blog, Blaine!! i'd have sent you a personal email... but don't have your address! are you doing any spinning or dyeing these days??? come on, catch us up to date!

amazing!

i've just posted my yarns at www.twistedmom.blogspot.com and just love how the 3 of us started at the same point and have come up with such differences and so many similarities! i'd love to put them all together in real life and admire 'em all! what fun!!!! and i'd love to do it again.

Your rovings are so beautiful!

I'm about to attempt my first felting. Some slippers. Any advice?

Yarn, yarn, and more yarn

I am finished spinning the yarn for our dye exchange. The ones on top are Lynnes'. The bigger one is her lighter colored roving, spun back on itself. The other three are her dark one divided up into the red one, the blue one, and the rest of the roving spun back on itself. I decided to ply all of our yarns separately, so Sandys are all hers, mine are all mine etc. with noone elses fiber plied into them. Sandy and Lynne may mix and match so I wanted to be different.

The middle yarns are Sandys dye work. I again spun half of the roving back on itself and separated out two different colorways with the remaining half. On all three rovings.

Mine are on the bottom and I treated them the same, but you can tell that mine are not as pretty as the rest. I am going to work on hot pour until my colorways are much prettier.

Now I just have to decide what to knit with all of this bounty.

dye along

Here are my colors. Read more on handspuncentral.

Long Distance Dye-Along

OK! here's photos of the superwash corriedale which i dyed today for the swap with Pam and Lynne. I used the 3 main colors that they used, and added yellow for my 4th.

after pouring dilute dye on the wet fiber(above) , i wrapped and steamed it!

for the one on the right... the dyes weren't dilute at all! there's more details on my blog, and it's too late tonight to write 'em out again!

and now... onward to the spinnin', and knittin'!

can hardly wait to get my hands on Pam's and Lynne's fibers.

Dye Exchange

See what I did today? This was the day that Lynne, Sandy, and I did our dye exchange. We all used the same colors, scarlet, teal, and orange plus one of our choosing. I chose rose pink. The roving in the enamel pot is full strength dye. The stainless steel one is diluted.

This was my first hot pour. I will have to get better. Lynne can tell you herself how she did hers on her blog.

I can't wait to see what Sandy did. We have divided our roving into thirds and each of us will spin and knit something from all the samples.

coming soon................yarn.

Letting the cat out

I have some news for y'all and I can now publlish it. As some of you know, our Lynne has put a line of her yarn on the market under the label LV ltd. See her blogs
handspuncentral and wool etc. I can now brag my head off that I have actually spun some of her yarn and my name is on the label as spun by Pam. So if any of you buy some that was spun by me and there are any defects, it's all my fault. The glorious colors are hers.
It is hard for me to believe that less than two years ago I had never spun anything but the rinse cycle on the washing machine. Now Lynne thinks I am good enought to spin for her! I am humbled and proud and excited. And soon to be in need of a new wheel. Horton has seen lots of practice!
We are (Lynne, Sandy, and I) planning a dye exchange and will post pics.l We will all be dying superwash corriedale in Lanaset (or equivilent) orange, scarlet,teal, and one more color of our own choosing. We will be taking pics and blogging them so y'all can see what we are doing. Hope to get started this next week.
Will keep you posted. Let us know what you think. There might be a future of fun in this project.

Dye fun

I finally have some fiber fun to post. I went to Lynnes house last week and we spent a great day dying some fiber. Sandy came up with a fun idea about a dye exchange, so the three of us are going to dye some fiber with the same dyes plus one of our own choosing and take pics of the results. We are going to spin up half of the fiber and give the other half to one of the others to spin. How much fun does that sound like? We will post the pics so everyone can see the different results. I can't wait to get started!

New Blogger

When the site had to be updated to the New Blogger format, we lost our full listing of contributors. I am not sure how to make everyone "visible" again, but I just checked the settings, and everyone still has permission to post. Just thought you would like to know.

Spinnin Skinny

Hi everyone. I finally got my new pc and it is smokin' ! I can blog and see it right away. I am a happy woman. Unfortunately I don't have time right now. Gotta go to work. More later.

Sweater Book?!?!?

I just saw on Amazon there is going to be The Twisted Sisters Sweater Workbook: Blueprint for Custom Knitting, in April!

Details????

Is the format going to be like the sock book? I can't wait!

I shouldn't fuss about fiber friends not posting if I am not posting myself. I haven't done any dying or knitting lately, but I have been spinning my little heart out and loving it. I am trying to get as caught up as I can so I won't have any more excuses to put off dying the fiber I got at SAFF back in October. I see by reading Sandys' blog that she will be going to SAFF next year, Good Lord willing and the creeks don't rise. I plan to be there myself so maybe we can hook up somewhere. I would love to go without Paul. I love him dearly and he is a Sweetie for driving me there and back, but he hates to shop and doesn't know that much about fiber and stuff so I always feel cheated about the time limit. I know I would come home with more goodies if he would let me alone.
Speaking of goodies, I finally got Mason/Dixon Knitting for Christmas. I know that Sandy and Caroline
really like the book but I was so disappointed in it. I already knew that Peaches and Creme was best for "warshrags" and I have NEVER been tempted to make potholders with those nylon loops on that little metal loom. Sigh..............what a letdown for me. But I also got a book on lace and 8 pairs (or sets) of Knit Pics new needles. Not the kind that the tips screw on, but the smaller ones made all in one piece. Never have trusted those screw-on things. I was also supposed to get a Wooly Winder or a skein winder, but I changed my mind. I have saved that money to get ; TA DAA!!!! A new computer. All of my very own without anyone else ever having owned it. So. In the very near future I will own one with a media center and get a photo-quality printer and I will be in business with the baby pics.
Speaking of babies ( y'all KNEW I would), the quads are 6 mos. old now. Reagan has two teeth and the rest are chewing on anything they can get in their mouths. They also laugh out loud and giggle and try out vowel sounds and screeching noises.
Carey is in the hospital awaiting Tyler. He isn't due until Feb. but her water broke so there it is. The Dr. said she was a better incubator than any the hosp. has so she is just lying there waiting. They won't let her come home in case of infection.
I have digressed enough. I gotta get back to fiber. So I will. Later.

News from Julia

Hi everyone! Julia has been having trouble getting on to the site. And no wonder - I just tried too, and Blogger is doing upgrades which may have gunked everything up.

Anyhow, here is her message.

what have I been up to? Err trying to finish so many UFOs that I feel really swamped, I am always eager to learn something new and then never finish the project! I have travelled to Spain a lot this year and just returned from a week end in Germany where I went to a Christmas market. Only got one kid left at home now so starting to plan for the future

We Got Yellow!

This is merino. I don't know what brand of dye, but was told by the seller to soak the wool in vinegar water and then add dye that was dissolved in hot water. The spun yarn looks like it is fading or something. In the dye pot it was bright yellow. The yarn looks more like the middle of a deviled egg. Any suggestions?

circular needles

This post is for Razberry who commented that she is looking for instructions on knitting socks with 2 circular needles. The technique was published by Cat Bordhi in her book Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles. Here is a link to amazon so you can see and buy her book. She is self published and has other titles too. I'm all for supporting the work of knitting authors . Happy Knitting.

Thanksgiving

Hello all. Looks like no one is doing any posting any more. Well here I am again.
Went to SAFF and had a great time in spite of the rain. Saw Caroline and her hubby and Mary Anne who put up a booth. Didn't get to talk to Mary Anne as she was busy. I picked up a pair of hand carders, a yarn meter, and several kinds of roving.
I was looking around and Paul, who is a good sport usually, said, "Tkhis is the third time we have been around. Haven't you seen it all yet?" Of course I hadn't, but I took pity on him and we didn't stay much longer.
I am doing a lot of spinning lately, but I do feel a "dye day" coming on.
The babies are all thriving and growing. Zachary weighs 16 pounds now and Thomas weighs 12. They are five nomths old now and laugh out loud and giggle and coo. Being a Granny is the best!
Y'all get you fingers limbered up and post again. I miss ya.
Have a great and wonderful Thanksgiving. See ya.
Pam

Hey Pam

I finally answered you! Hope SAFF was wonderful!

Goin' to SAFF

Hi everyone. Yes I am still alive and doing well. Although, Angi, I am still waiting to hear about Nell.
I am really excited tonight, even tho I have to get up at 5 in the morning (Yak moan groan gripe) I am going to SAFF again for the second year in a row. Last year I didn't
t know what to expect as it was my first experience at a fiber "do". Ah, but this year is different. I know what I want and I know what is there. (Maybe). If I could get everything I would like to have (we're talking alpacas and angoras here) I would have to move to a farm. OH well, I will settle for some equipment and fiber. Shucks. (giggle) I hope to be seeing Caroline and Bill there and of course Babs will have a booth. Maybe Blaine will be there this year. Any way, I will take pics and try to post more often. Later and Love, Pam

Finally Home!

After much pain and heartache, my son and his family have been reunited! For those of you who have been so kind to me regarding all of the trouble my daughter in law's parents have caused, I thank you. My daughter in law testified and all of the court stuff is over!

The kids have asked me not to put their picture on my regular blog. They believe her parents have more pictures of their daughter than they are entitled to. But I wanted to share them here, since the parent's don't have the address.