Knitting? no. Spinning? Yes! In fact, I brought fiber to predraft at my Stitch and Bitch last week, rather than knitting on one of the many projects that I’m bored to tears with. Someone asked me if I joined the Tour de Fleece spinalong. Um, kind of? I clicked “join this group” on Ravelry. Does that count?

Pigeonroof Studios superwash merino in Harlequin. 99 grams, 13wpi, 170 yards. I’d take that WPI number with a large grain of salt – I very, very sloppily measured it before the skein was washed. Original fiber.

6oz of Crown Mountain Farms corriedale pencil roving in Stonehenge. 163g, 14wpi, 313 yards. Original Fiber. I was thinking about using this as the yoke of a sweater, but who am I kidding? 313 yards isn’t that much more than a standard handspun skein.

Julie Spins Rambouillet in Polar, original fiber. I haven’t weighed or measured it, so let’s just call it beyond categorization for now. This one’s for my Hush Hush Handspun Hootenanny pal.

My Ravelry handspun page is starting to look like a yearbook page of skeins, which pleases me! To tell you the truth, I don’t care for spinning that much. However, I love the end result and really, really like buying more fiber than I have room to store, so spinning must occur!

I think that part of my knitting issues lie in that I’m officially sick of socks. Whatever happened to the sock a month thing, you ask? And isn’t that my unpronounceable name in the Knotions preview, you wonder? Yes! May’s socks will be fully revealed in August when Knotions launches, very exciting! For now, here’s a little preview:

And I just finished June’s socks. See, I’m not that far behind!

Hi! We’re back from Europe and still trying to adjust to the time zone here. I’ve realized that it’s much easier to sleep through the night when you don’t have cats laying on your pillow and kneading your legs at wee hours of the morning. Yeah. But Switzerland was great, and I’ll have lots of photos to share once I go through the 600+ shots we took on the trip.

Thanks for all of the comments on the baby blanket and skirt! It was great to read them on our trip when I was waiting around for Rob to finish his conferencing. Thankfully all of that waiting happened where there was free wireless!

I have a little yarn to share with you that I completely forgot to blog about this before we left. It’s not much, just your standard two-ply handspun.

The fiber was Laughing Rat finnsheep in the color Flourite. This skein is 118g, 180 yards. I think that this is my best handspun to date! It looks extra pretty because it’s the first yarn I’ve wound on a niddy noddy. I was previously using my swift to wind yarn, but the niddy noddy is so much easier and neater looking.

Speeeeaking of handspun, I joined the Hush-Hush Handspun Hootenanny swap. I’m perhaps a bit late filling out the questionnaire, so after the bump are all of my answers…

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