Knitters look TOUGH

We're tough alright...

Carolyn's Rosebuds and Hearts Seamen's Scarf

Carolyn's Rosebuds and Hearts Seamen's Scarf from Myrna Stahman's book - Stahman's Shawls and Scarves.

58" x 9". One and five/eighths of an ounce of my own handspun alpaca.

It sat around forever, unblocked.

But now it's MINE, all MINE!!

(evil laugh..)







For those kind souls who have inquired - I'm selling my folding Lendrum, but I'm keeping my Lendrum Saxony, and the Majacraft. It's time to reduce the acquisition of stuff. Three wheels is a bit more than ridiculous...

Lendrum Double Treadle and Woolee Winder for sale

I am selling my Lendrum Double Treadle Folding wheel.

Included are 4 bobbins, lazy kate, and carrying bag. $425. Estimated shipping is $40 (within the US) - if it goes more than that, I'll pay the difference. If it's less, I'll reimburse
you.
























(The bag is not padded.) The carrying bag includes a large zippered cloth bag to carry all the bobbins and extra spinning supplies.






















I would like to include the Woolee Winder. I have seven bobbins for the Woolee Winder. If you take the wheel and the Woolee Winder, I will sell for $675.

From the manufacturer, New Woolee Winders (with one bobbin) are $185. Bobbins are $31 each.

If anyone would like to purchase the Woolee Winder and the 7 bobbins, it is priced at $300. I will pay shipping within the US.

Seaman's scarf blocked

Housecleaning on Saturday...

One of the perils of a full time job - the cleaning needs to take place on the weekends!





My reward - blocking out the handspun Alpaca Seaman's scarf that has been knitted for so long!









This morning, Paul and I walked in the Carleton Arboretum with the dogs.











There are still a few shots of color on the prairie.














Girl of the House stayed home relaxing, and had the TV to herself with no parental nagging. (Not many bad things on broadcast TV on Sunday mornings, are there?!)

This afternoon she has the second day of soccer tryouts, for summer '09 traveling soccer. These tryouts will determine team placement.

Yes, we're overly organized here in Northfield...

road knitting - Sioux Falls!

We drove out to Sioux Falls, SD last weekend to surprise Paul's brother for his birthday. And we did surprise him! Excellent planning on Coleen's part...

We had beautiful weather, and a fabulous time!

Even the dogs were invited!

We all went for a walk on Saturday, and we discovered they had several geocaches right in their local park.

They entertained us, as usual, in gourmet style.

Of course driving the four hours to Sioux Falls, and four hours back, gave me lots of knitting time!



I've got most of Rogue finished.

Just the seaming up, and zipper installation to go.












Got some sock knitting in, too.

This was the easiest knitting to do, on the road in the dark. I certainly couldn't do all that cabling in the dark!









Little dog was suspicious of my photo taking.

He's very protective of my foot model, Girl of the House.






On the dark evenings this week, I did more spinning than knitting.

I spun up the two ounces of black alpaca I purchased at Shepherd's Harvest back in May.

This was full of vegetation matter (VM), and quite dirty, same as the brown I spun up earlier this summer.

Turned out quite lovely after spinning and washing, however.




I passed the underplied CVM back through the spinning wheel, and it came out much nicer.









There's been a project of some silk caps I dyed, sitting half finished on my Saxony wheel. I know I started that project in 2007.

They finally yelled loud enough to grab my attention, and I finished spinning them up.

One ounce of silk caps, 300 yards of lace weight.

The colors are difficult to photo accurately, but I'm loving the blues!

I see a silk scarf in the near future...