She Spins, She Knits, SCORE!

My friend Theresa Jeane's tool of choice at a Genesee Valley Handspinners Guild meeting:



Hmmm... I'm thinking that maybe I should get one of these spindles so I can spin in the car. Not while I'm driving, mind you. Well, not usually, anyway.

Socks, Socks, Socks! Is That All You Can Think About?

So, if you suffer from fiber obsession, you see fiber opportunities everywhere you go. I have to admit, it gets kind of silly after a while. There I was, picking out new sandals, and look what came in the box:

Knitted Sock Display Stands

My friend Theresa Jeane also made these lovely socks, which of course are displayed on my handy display stands:

Yeah, we all need a little more socks in our lives, don't you think?

What Happened to Benny's Blue Bunny Yarn?

Ah, yes, think back to when I wrote about my favorite yarn, Benny's Blue Bunny Fiber is Ready to Be Knit! This particular yarn was a combination of 50% angora and 50% alpaca.

It took me a while, but I finally found someone who was up to the challenge. My friend Theresa Jeane used a combination of knitting and crocheting to make the most lovely sweater. I am afraid I am not doing it justice in this picture due to my hair issues. I have since sought counseling and am now the queen of the curling iron. I have no explanation for the stern look on my face - there we were in sunny Florida, on a lovely beach, and I went to a lot of trouble to haul all my knitted treasures to Florida just so I could get my husband to take a nice picture of me on the beach...

To reward Theresa for her fabulous work, I am trading this lovely concoction of hand-dyed carded moreno and alpaca fiber:

A Fingerless (and Not So Fingerless) Frenzy

The girls at guild, and my Mom at home, are into mittens just now. So I can't resist showing you what all they've been up to.

First, we have Theresa's fingerless mittens:

Theresa says these are incredibly comfortable. And the yarn is so pretty!

Not to be outdone, my mother made herself some mittens. Here's the fiber that we started with. I sold a boatload of this, one ounce at a time, at guild:

Here's how it looked after I spun it up for Mom:

And here's her finished product:

Isn't my Mom as cute as a button?

These are fingerless mittens that Kyla Williams was working on. At least one pair is for her husband. I like the way she handled the fingerless part. General consensus is that you need to put something between the finger holes for fingerless mittens, otherwise they'll ride up on you and be terribly annoying wrist muffs. Kyla said she crocheted the connection:

Last of all, Spinoff Magazine had an article about fingerless texting mittens. Theresa has already anticipated this new fad and is working on a design right now. In th meantime, Chris Frayda has already started working using the pattern that was in Spinoff:

Although I am not yet a texter, I love the way the ladies jump on these technological trends and come up with a way to appeal to the trendsetters.