I’ve been quite a bit busy lately. I’ve been helping MissViolet with the Plurkette Hencircle, sewing, cooking, gardening, spinning and knitting and occasionally glancing at the loom. (hopefully more about that tomorrow)

I have a FO!

Specs:

Pattern: Nanner Socks by Wendy Johnson

Yarn: LnV Sasquatch Sock in “overripe nanners”

Needles: size 1 1/2 (2.5mm) dpns

These are my new favorite socks. I cast on for these on the 27th of June and was finished with them on July 6th. I would have been done sooner, but I had to help mom pack and move things from her old house on Friday (yes July 4th!) and hardly knit at all that day. I’ll be doing these again for sure!

Some people asked to see the dishtowel that I mentioned I was working on in my last post.

This is kind of an inside joke. It started with a plurk missviolet made about needing to start the day over.  The word mulligan came up and I decided to make a “mulligan” dishtowel. This is free hand embroidery and I used the outline stitch to do it. I love its rustic look. I’ll be writing up a tutorial on how to do this soon and we’ll post it over on the Farmgirl site.

I’ve even picked up my tatting needles again.

These are just little samples that I did to see if I could remember how to do it. It was like riding a bike!

I have joined the Tour de Fleece this year. I have some portable spinning on a drop spindle and I’m working on some scarlett wool on my wheel. (I have no clue what it is..it was unmarked when I bought it.)

I’ve had a lot of fun this past week, and hope I have more to post soon.

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