Knitting Dragonflies

Here is a busy bee in my garden... I have been busy spinning, working and cleaning, how do two dogs make so much hair? I guess if I had that much hair all over my body and it was in the 90's I would be dropping an alarming amount of hair also. Here is the amount of yarn I have spun during the Tour De Fleece . This shows the amount of fiber I have left from the 4 oz. that I want to spin during this time. Also the primary spindle I have been using, a bottom whorl made by my hubby and a spindle bowl from the Knitwitch . I did get my Sursa shawl done. And I'm still working on my Lola bunny . Technorati Tags: lola Bunny knitting pattern link , sursa shawl , tour de fleece 2008 , knitwitch

And Tour de Fleece update.... I am new to spindles and have been practicing tenaciously, insert giggles here. Coming along fairly well, watch some You Tube videos which helped quite a bit. Then I joined the Tour De Fleece to help motivate me and meet some spinners, spindles, I had met KnitWitch online and lusted after her yarn bowls before I got my spindles. I noticed that she also made spindle bowls , and thought "would that help me much?" OOOO so pretty, so I ended up ordering one, see previous post. Wow, I started really using it today and cannot believe how much it has increased my speed. During my light speed spinning, actually wondering if I would break the sound barrier . It has been many years since my last physics class, so I was wondering as I was spindling along what was going on. Well, knowing the answer to almost every question is on the interest I looked and found Wendy from pointysticks and her spindle physics tutorial . Interesting stuff. Enjoy your sp...

I finally decided to buy a spindle bowl from KnitWitch . My spindle fit nicely in the dimple in the bottom of the bowl, giving me support (and more control, for me) and faster spin. I have tried the bowl with my bottom whorl, and top whorl spindle, it works nicely with both! I couldn't decide which one to get. And it's so pretty! The bottom gives it good stability. Thanks KnitWitch ! Now I'm ready to start super spinning with my spindles. On to the Tour De Fleece ....   Technorati Tags: Knitwitch , Le Tour De Fleece 2008 , Spindle Bowls , Drop spindles

Just  some updates Here is how far I have gotten on the Lola Bunny pattern   by Beth Skwarecki. It is fun to knit and fairly quick, I have used the Magic Loop technique as shown on You Tube by KnitWitch Here is my progress on my Sursa shawl from Noro Cornelia Tuttle Hamilton Book Two. I picked a gray for the boarder. I had trouble making a decision, at first I had matched the pink, eeee gods, bad choice, so I decided to go neutral. As you can see Syd was not interested in my dilemma.   I have to make a trip and I found a Fiber Festival that is on my way!!!   Thanks to Knitters Review's calendar! Technorati Tags: Knitter's Review Fiber festival calender 2008 , Hoosier Hills Fiberarts festival , Lola Bunny knitting pattern link , Sursa shawl Technorati Tags: KnitWitch