What to make?

Ok! I have 7 skeins of lovely Mad tosh dk weight singles in my hot little hands and they are burning a hole in my knitting stash. I love them sooooo much that I cannot wait to make something, but I am having such trouble deciding what to make :)



Write me a comment and let me know what you think! OR write the pattern name that you think I should make.

I have a short list of patterns:

Alexandria - Connie Chang Chinchio

New York Cardigan - by Erin Harper

Vine Lace Bolero - full length version - by Emily Johnson

KINGSCOT - by Norah Gaughan

Blackberry Cabled Cardigan - by Alexandra Charlotte Dafoe

Cerisara - by Bonne Marie Burns

Audrey in Unst - by Gudrun Johnston

Thanks for your help people!

cheers
Carrie

Market day yesterday

I am a slack tart!
thought I had better thank all of the friends who visited Michelle and I at the Celebration of wool day yesterday at the kingston bus depot markets. It was a fantastic day (I came home with only 4 skeins of yarn left and Michelle sold out of her new bags my 10.15am), and it would have been so fantastic without the help, support and encouragement of our great friends!

check out Michelle's Blog for pics and more info about the day (I am a slack tart remember!)

I am also putting the silk/merino and Bamboo sock on rav for people to stash it, and have already done the sock yarn. Have fun stashing it :)

Its been a while

and I have been busy!
Here are some spinning pics of Merino tops which I have handdyed and spun...






The purple is a 2ply and is about a thick lace weight yarn. The black and grey with hints of a rusty brown is a lace weight single which I will use for knitting a lace stole for me.


Ixchel fibre and yarn
Angorino in Barossa party. It spun up like a dream, I love the colours and it is knitting up so soft and fuzzy. Super yummy!!!




Southern Cross Fibres
I have gotten myself a spot on the fibre club which I am very chuffed about. This month we received batts which I have no idea what to do with despite them being very beautiful Merino and Silk. I am keeping an eye on Rav as David is posting some suggestions and tips.
Along with the club fiber I snaffled some tops of his shop update, I started with some of the BFL in Hunter Valley before trying the batts.

batts for the club, I recieved a double dose of EARTH (David's photos of the fibre in all of these as I am too lazy)

Katoomba Norwegian top

Wombat Falkland top

Byron Bay, Blue Faced Leicester top

Hunter Valley BFL (Mine was a lot more read and green than this)

My first ever 3 ply! My first ever Fractal spinning! Woot! It is a bit over plyed, but this was done intentionally as I want to use it for socks. Love all of Davids' fibre, the colours are really amazing. I have to have a break from spinning now as I seem to have given myself a spot of tennis elbow due to my obsession, Ouch!

Clover and Swaps

Clover is getting pretty big now.
I took her into the Vets today to visit one of my students on work experience, and the vet nurse thinks that she in actually a HIM! So the Kitty is now officially an IT!




I am also very excited about the lovely pressies that I received today for the Yellow swap (part of the rainbow series) on Ravelry. I really love all of the things that I got, especially the handmade doily's and scarf, very lovely! I really love it when people take the time to wrap all of the goodies that you receive (I try to do the same for others) as it makes the fun last longer, and you can appreciate each thing one at a time :)

Raising Clover the tiger Kitty!

I found my little clover in the back yard she was in amounts a whole heap of wood and corrugated iron leaning up against the fence. I could hear meowing as Lee was using big noisy power tools, she was a sad Kitty.

She was about 2 weeks old when I found her, and now she is about 3 weeks. I just weighed her and she has put on more than 100g since I first thought to weigh her. Her eyes are now fully open and her ears have "popped" out of her head. Her little razor sharp teeth are just peeking threw her gums.

I don't normally get excited about cats, but I have fallen in love.

Dyeing for the weekend deux

More dyeing fun happened this weekend. I need 2 of these skeins for swaps I am in and since I am new to the whole dyeing thing I will be sad to part with them.

A bit step....... I went outside of my comfort zone and went brown! I am usually a primary colour or cool rich colour kind of gal, but I tried something new and really liked the results.

Pictures speak a thousand words

Finishing off

I am notoriously bad at finishing things at the moment, so I knuckled down over the last few weeks of my school holidays and focused on getting two of my projects finished.

My monkey socks, only took me about 5 months and they should of taken a couple of weeks at most!!! I love the way the yarn changes from deep blue at the top to more aqua blue at the toes, cool effect which I wasn't expecting when I bought the yarn from Helen at Waratah fibres






I also finished my Hey Teach! Cardigan from knitty
I made a few changes to the cardi. I made it a few inches longer, I picked up more stitches around the neck and fronts of the cardi (changed from 24 stitches picked up to nearly 50 on each neck edge), and I left out the waist ribbing. I also knitted this in the round, dividing at the sleeves and knitting the rest flat, which meant the only seaming I had to do was on the sleeves. I am fairly happy with the look of it, but am yet to try it on and get the real picture!


Finishing things feels awesome!
Now I had better do some much needed house work :)