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Wow, it's been a long time since my last post! A local yarn shop is relocating (the woman runs it out of a pole building next to her home and she is moving, so the shop is moving with her), so I got some great deals at a 40% off everything sale. I got a pair of sock blockers, which makes taking pictures of my completed socks much easier. Here's a pic of the most recently finished pair on the blockers.


Pattern: My own (based on the toe up pattern here with a K3 P1 ribbing done on the top of the foot and around the leg)
Yarn: Austermann Step




I purchased some more Austermann Step at the yarn shop relocation sale in colors 11 (peach, brown, ivory) and 13 (browns and white). I got a ton of Cascade 220 (which I love for lots of different projects) - 15 skeins in burnt orange (7824) and 9 skeins in dark plum (8885).






I also got a little over 8 oz. of laceweight in bright plum/raspberry color (it's a little lighter than the dark plum Cascade 220). I think it's some type of acrylic/rayon/polyester something. It's not cotton and it's not wool, but it doesn't have the typical acrylic "crunch" feel to it and it has a lovely sheen.







I've also been busy at the spinning wheel lately. Here are some of the skeins I've finished recently. The top picture is approximately 1.5 oz. of Interlacements "Wool Roving" in color 220. It's a very pretty hand dyed roving with a mix of turquoise, purple, olive green, and a kind of slate blue. I tried to spin it so the two plies would roughly match up in color, but as you can see that didn't work. The colors matched up at the beginning, once or twice in the middle, and at the very end. I still have about 6.5 oz. of this roving left to spin up.




The second picture is two skeins (3 oz./500 yards and 1.5 oz./236 yards) of a 50/50 merino/tussah silk blend. I still have about 11 oz. of this roving left to spin up.

There's definitely no shortage of fiber or yarn around here! Hopefully there won't be such a huge lag before my next post!