What does a really nerdy person knit? A handspun dice bag for role playing, of course…and then, apparently, she names it after her World of Warcraft character

My Erinndaii bag:

I also made some socks from some sock yarn remnants Dani handed off to me…and everyone informed me that they look like bacon.  Hence, the Baconator Baby Socks!

I finally managed to spin a decent fingering-weight yarn!  And it’s prettier in person than it is in the pictures…the color is much more beauteous. 

It would appear that I’m incapable of spinning fingering-weight yarn!  Last time it was too thin; this time…I managed to get only 90 yards out of half of the 109 grams of roving I dyed, when I should have gotten at least 175 yards.  I fail!  I spun the other half bulky out of spite.   

I spun this yarn a while ago (undyed) when I was teaching myself to Navajo ply (making a 3-ply yarn from a single bobbin), and I just found it last night buried under other yarn.  I asked Chris what color I should dye it, and he said “pink and blue!”.  So it was *supposed* to be a pale blue and pale pink, but I added too much dye and it got really dark!  I like it anyway :P 

I also dyed this roving last night, which I hope will look awesome spun up…I’m going to try to make Navajo-plied sock yarn, so wish me extremely-thin-spinning luck! 

Ta da!  The roving from the other day, all spun up and ready for my Etsy store! 

I can’t stop knitting on my curbing bag!  

I keep telling myself  ’just one more row, then I’ll stop’, but I can’t put it down! I’m working on my seventh “row” right now.  I think part of the addiction is that I get to keep switching yarns…not just colors, but fibers, weights, textures…it’s the perfect solution to my two-second yarn attention span! 

Oh and it’s a *great* project for handspun…I have lots of thick-and-thin bits of stuff I’ve spun, in smallish amounts, which looks awesome on this bag!

 

I also dyed this roving last night:

So if anyone has any ideas/gut feelings about what these should be named…

I just dyed this one a week or so ago…it was (originally) Knit Picks Bare bulky weight:

And I dyed this one a while back, and somehow forgot to take pictures…Knit Picks Bare fingering weight:


 

Oh and I got one whole sock done for Chris today!  He may actually live to see a pair of hand-knit socks! 

 

Also started a curbing bag, which looks awesome so far…I’m planning on making it HUGE so I can fit everything in it… 

 

Dani and I dyed the roving for this yarn a while ago, and I just got around to spinning it…and since she’s sick and in even more need than usual of yummy fluffy yarn, it’s going to her

I dyed over parts of it after it was spun - I thought the color turned out too monotone, so I added some teal and purple!

The colors are more jewel-toned in person…but I neglected to get a daylight picture, and using flash washed everything out to monotone royal blue, so I had to take the picture in indoor lighting (ick).

Still sickish. I can swallow normal food now, so I guess that’s a step up. I just feel groggy and stuffy in my sinuses.

I spun this yarn before I went to visit my mom, but I just pulled it off my bobbin today. I haven’t finished/dried/skeined it yet, so it’s just kind of a blob ATM:

Look! Look! I have two socks going at once…on one circular!

I don’t think I’ll ever do one sock at a time again…this is awesome!

Excellent tutorial here, in case you want to learn…

Oh and I dyed this yarn (Knit Picks Bare DK weight merino) the other night:

And I spun and dyed this one - it’s a single, about light fingering weight: