Promises made and kept.

I have only been working on this shawl for the past month.

ON world wide knit in public day, on which is rained. Stormed, I made

a mistake. I only found it a few days later. Thus I had to rip out a few

rows. That turned into 12 rows...8 days later... Due to being very

careful in ripping the last 3 out, as I did Not want to rip out the last

3, but ended up  ripping out them,  I am finally knitting in the right

direction. FORWARD.

NO I have NOT nor will add a lifeline. I just have added about 15 more stitchmarkers, thank you Michelle.

The new fall yarns are arriving. I need to blockade myself from the lyc.. again, Sorry Michelle.

I made the mistake of walking thru a Macys dept. store today. I don't have any Cc's anymore, nor will be using them.

I don't do window shopping, so unless I am going to buy something, I am not going in that store. NOt in that store for 2 seconds, was I asked if I  would like to open a  (nasty word) CC. I thus told the nice man who was just doing his job, that if he said another word to me I would take him to court and thus sue the pants off of him as I had  spent thousands of dollars in both therapy ,  and court and would never recover from the emotional distress that Macys had done to me as I not only once but twice had 3 different accounts from them and they still wanted to open yet another account for me. (some of this story is true not all) I had overloaded on sugar from a luncheon at The cheesecake factory after being down 2.6# at WW.

Truly I have lost 15# and only another 40  to go. and I plan to run the

Great Race in Pgh. at the end of Sept. Am going to the gym 3 times a

week and weightlifting. 

Hopefully more energy for knitting.

Made another payment on my  Kromski Sonata spinnng wheel!!!

This yarn is so yummy.

it is by Kiparoo farms and is called "silk road"

a 50/50 blend of wool and silk. The color blend that I bought sold out immediatly. It was the first booth that I stopped in, the first skein that I bought, and I did NOT regret my quick decision for a moment.

I got a beautiful 1 skein summer top, unfortunately the pattern is Erratica from the start. As in the number of stitches  you cast on. I thought I was going crazy, took it up to the lys, and the owner checked it and yep, I am NOT certifyabley crazy.It is a simle lacy fan and waves and i believe I can fix this on my own, so am going to try.

Now the next find is this gorgeous cashmere blend, from Sanguine Graphine, I didn't read about it on the internet, I was browsing Cloverleaf Hill yarn shop.

I hope to do the civil war shawl with this. I got 3 skeins, 400yrds each. Just need 7 more skeins.

There is a KAL for it. Started  beginning of May. Plan to start it today~~~ I must... it is so gorgeous.

Here is the spindle that I bought. 

NOt my golding one.

I took another handspinning class yesterday. Hoping to call The woolery this week and put my Kromski sonata on layaway while they are having free shipping and the bag and other few things on sale till the end of the month.

I do love my hand spindles. but the spinning wheel, there is nothing like it and want to practice before my next class on june 7th, which is about plying consistantly. (which I mainly concentrated on the feet and hand work yesterday, so you will see my first skein of plied yarn soon.

So all in all accomplished 2 thing knittingwise.

ripped out 8 rows in the spring top of the kiparro farms yarn, to start over,

and need to rip out my dale of norway summer top, as it being knit in the round, I forgot to work on the decreases, so I had gotten 4" worked on the way to Md and back, and just mentally kicking myself in the butt for that dumb mistake. What gorgeous colors with this svale.

Have you seen the new Knitting magazine that is out?

ya........

ok, tomorrow maybe I will show you the roving I bought this past week. YUMMY.

I went to sheep and woll festival.

It was a last minute decision.

It was awesome.

I went with 4 other friends. We had a blast. I did show some self control.

I found the perfect spinning whell for me. I tried 5.  No i  didn't bring her home .

Hopefully this fall. I did get a Golding hand spindle.

Oh the beauty of that artwork. 

HOnest pics later.