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:

Okay, so I’d like to take pause now to rant about something completely unrelated to knitting…Apple’s new MacBook Air. You all know I love Apple. They’re always first on user-friendly, brand-spanking-new technological advances. I have a MacBook and I love it, possibly more than Chris…okay that’s not true, but it’s close.

Now they’ve introduced a laptop as thin as my finger. Sounds great, right? Everyone wants a thinner laptop, the thinner the better. Plus the commercial is super awesome and addictive as always. The only problem? Upon further inspection, I realize this laptop is completely and utterly retarded. And I do mean that literally.

Although not quite apparent in the cute commercial (during which everyone is just oohing and ahhing over the mega-thinness), the Air has…get ready for this…no disc drive. Yeah, you heard me. NO disc drive. Since when has a computer, even a competely shitty computer, not come with a disc drive?? Oh but don’t worry, you can buy a separate disc drive and lug it along with you…kind of negates the thinness, though, right?  There is also only one USB port. So be sure to pack your hub, too!

Don’t worry though, they’ve *totally* made up for these shortcomings with…a larger trackpad? Now I wasn’t aware that I needed a larger trackpad - I thought the normal-sized one on my MacBook was just fine and dandy, but I must have been wrong.

At least they didn’t cripple the ram or the hard drive…however since the computer is so. freaking. thin, I think I’d be afraid to touch it. It has to be more fragile, being so thin…I can just picture the top half of the clamshell just snapping right off…

One last thing (and this is just personal preference, I guess)…they’ve made it of aluminum, like the MacBook Pro. I’m a fan of the nice white plastic my MacBook is made of - I think the aluminum feels cold and somehow shows smudges and fingerprints a lot more easily than the plastic does.

All in all I think I’m just confused. I guess some people will buy this thing…and if all you really need it for is internet access, I guess you might be okay. But for the price, you could get a MacBook and have money left over…

Yeah, I know my site looks a little weird, I haven’t really figured out CSS yet, and I’ve been sick as hell so I haven’t really been doing much of anything besides lying on the couch and dying :/ But I’m excited to figure it out when I don’t feel like complete shit.

I did figure out how to edit my public username/password…so I don’t have to remember a weird long string of letter and random numbers

So on Saturday I went to two of the coolest yarn stores in the world - The Yarn Barn in Lawrence, KS, and The Studio in KC - and I got some awesome yarn! It’s too bad I didn’t have much fun since my stomach/IBS has been acting up pretty badly lately, which pretty much makes going anywhere no fun, but at least I got some awesome yarn!

Sock yarns:

Two big skeins of laceweight, and the other three are stuff my sister picked out (which I will at some point turn into finished objects, hopefully):

Oh and I also finished my sister’s socks (toe up, two at a time on magic loop)…I don’t like the way the heel turned out, I think I’ll stick to my not-as-easy-but-tighter Japanese short-row method:

This domain belongs to the wonderful Kaitlen, for whom I’d give my life for.

My love, you’re everything to me.

Happy Valentine’s Day.

-Chris