JessaLu Knits (and Spins!)

My Hollyhocks have been in bloom for a while now - they are one of my favorite flowers (after Peonies and Roses, of course):

Hope everyone has a great weekend! :o)

…how a new toy can help you ramp up the spinning production. ;o)

Or maybe it’s the absence of a family member that’s allowing me to concentrate…or perhaps the looming fiber festivals making me want to clear out the stash to make room for new…? Possibly it’s a combination of all those things ;o)

No matter the reason, I have new yarn to show you all:

Singles on my new Will Taylor Lazy Kate

Bird’s eye view (please ignore the ancient carpeting - no amount of vacuuming can get it 100% clean) - this kate can do up to three plies. I Navajo plied these singles so I’m not using it to its full potential but having that single coming up out of the same place really helped when I was reaching for the next length. In fact, I think I set a personal record for plying 4oz of singles. It only took me a day and a half to spin this up (I am a frustratingly slow spinner).

The finished product.

This is the July offering from the Spunky Club - 4oz of Shetland in the colorway ‘Celebration’. I managed to squeak out 232 yards of a sport/dk weight.

So, speaking of Fiber Fests - I’ll be at VT Sheep & Wool this Saturday so if you see me wandering around feel free to say, ‘hi!’ (I don’t bite…at least, I don’t unless you’re touching a fleece that I want…*cough*). I’m getting a day pass from RR since we’re going to the Lake George Car show this weekend. ;o)

…Weekend to us always means the Chatham Fair and good dose of hillbilly ;o) This year we went on Saturday night - which we found out later was a bigger mistake than we thought because it was tractor pull night. We were expecting the Bacon Brothers. You can imagine our surprise ;o)

We had the usual sausage grinder with a side of heartburn (RR), Gyro (me), bucket ‘o fries (shared - with vinegar), ice cream (RR), Tums (RR) and funnel cake (me) and enjoyed the sights:

Roger saw these guys and said, “Nice socks!”

Monkeys ‘in the wild’ - can you see them?

I was so happy to see these little guys - I’ve been trying to prove to RR for months that they make small sheep! ;o)

You’ll never see me on one of these…vertigo issues+whirlygig thingy=puke-age ;o)

In other news: RR leaves today for a three day business trip to Denver - guess what that means? Takeout and lots of knitting! Yay!

In fibery news: Not much progress on CPH but I have been spinning (and watching Sense & Sensibility…the BBC series Robin Hood is up next).