But late is better than never, right?

Yup… See that? 2 socks on 2 circs! I did it…. I am conquering the beast.

And… Fall sock clubbers… if you are wondering what that colorway is….

A sneak peek at Late Harvest. It is knitting like a dream.

Off to tangle with the beast some more!

so…. if you are knitting a ballband dischcloth ala Mason Dixon….. and your almost 3 year old has an accident on the floor….. and they… say…. reach for your knitting that you laid down on the couch…… to clean it up I mean….

are you proud that they are trying to clean up their mess with a future-appropriate cleaning item?

or

are you pissed (no pun intended) that you have to cut the thing off and cast on again?
Can’t decide which one at the moment……

TGIF Folks!

( Barry Manilow playing softly in the background…..)

There is my cowboy on the plane… it’s not his first ride… but it is his first ride as a preschoooler. He did great! I bought 3 new BOB THE BUILDER dvd’s to play in my laptop (GO PHYLLIS!) and a new BOB THE BUILDER toy for the ride. He was mesmerized.

He really liked the window seat and they bumped us to business class. More room and there were a total of 4 people there. SWEET! Go US!

I got a couple more repeats done on my BEAU sock. Thank you dvds!
D got some sleep… has has to work most of the time we are here.
So, it was good for him to rest on the flight.

here is the view from our window at the Royal Pacific in Universal. They have a beautiful pool set up and a water taxi to the parks. We are off to one of the parks today… not sure where we will end up. Good thing the boy is still free!

Happy Wednesday everyone!

My dearest friend Fiona,

I am so very touched by the gift that you and Amie sent to Me and Mama-E.

I feel the need to paraphrase the card enclosed in the gift:

Joy,

When I came to live with Amie, someone sent a huge box of new fibers so we could play together. To “pay it forward”, she and I are giving you:

• blue Ashland Bay wool
• natural linen
• beige cotton
• white Suri Alpaca
• Brown QIVIUT

Love,

Fiona

OH, FIONA! I am so incredibly honored to receive such a generous gift. The time we spend together will benefit Mama-E’s spinning skills, and more importantly, her spirit.

Fiona, even though we have not known each other long, we are kindred in spirit. I promise that I will pay this kindness forward many, many times in honor of our friendship and in honor of keeping the craft alive and well.

Much love and friendship!

Namaste,

Wendy Joy

PS:

Mama-E chimes in… this week…. knitters and spinners… in honor of the craft and the teachers…lets “PAY IT FORWARD”. I want you to randomly select someone in your cyber-fiber village and send them some fiber love. Bust a piece of your stash and mail it off to someone with a kind note.

I will…. and you never know…. you might be getting something from me. Leave me a comment when you do….. I want to see the ripples in the water.

Let the kindness commence!

PPS:

Love you Spin Diva!

How to have SOX on the beach!! I am making some headway!

Beau also knows….

ROVING!!! Just in time for PS JULY… All are for sale and ready to ship!

More to come…..

I have been seriously neglecting some posts that I have been meaning to get around to. Yes… most of my posts lately have been about C*EYE*BER Fibers and cruises……

Today is about long overdue thank-yous and WIP’s.

Thank you to my secret pal… I have no photos of your packages as a whole. I do, however, have a picture of what I am doing with your gift.

That is 30 yards of merino/silk 2-ply handspun. Made with my little fingers on my little drop spindle. I am enjoying myself tremendously.

The next thank you goes out to Lorene, my dye-o-rama pal.

Not only a beautifully hand-painted skein of yarn for me….

It was named for me! I am honored. I also received some great coordinating stitch markers and a beautiful batt of sparkly fiber! I love it. There was chocolate…but…..

And on to my new friend to the north. David Demchuk was looking for some peaches and creme to compare to the Canadian alternative. I sent him a wee package of ombres and a skein of C*EYE*BER FIBER… and he sent me this….

OMG!!! I can not keep my hands off of this. 70% silk/30 % Seacell ,100g of sexy laceweight goodness. I am in love…. what lace to knit? I think she may become Eunny’s Print O’the Wave Stole…

And if that wasn’t more than enough….

The man sent me  KOIGU. David, you are a prince among princes!

(OK… I have a HUGE soft spot for my male knitting buddies… right CriminyJickets?)

Alright…on to my WIP’S….

You all saw BEAUREGARD in her beginning state. I am saving her for my quick ocean getaway next week. She will probably have her mate by the time I get back.

This is the new WIP I am especially proud of:

This is the cowby’s next knitted gift. Do you see that this is FAIR ISLE?? I love this. I really love working the chart and seeing the pattern come alive. Makes me want to knit some argyle socks.

Here is the finished product:

Thanks to Coleen for bringing the pattern to my attention at the Mannings. I am so jumping on her bandwagon. If you didn’t already know… she knits a mean chicken!

Thanks so much for all of your generous gifts and support of C*EYE*BER FIBERS. This fiber-based internet village that I dwell in is a great place. It has brought me such inspiration and kindness. There are few things better in life than human kindness.

So…. Happy THURSDAY FRIENDS! One day left of the work week…….

 

Here is what you all have been waiting for…

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Socks for All Seasons Club

Every month of the season you will recieve 400 yds of fingering weight superwash goodness! Here is the plan for FALL:

I am almost to the June -Bug PS finish line. I am so close to done with the girls for the sock clubbers. Here she is if you havent seen her.

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I usually get a little wonky after a large run… especially if it is the same colorway. I like her… I keep meaning to save a skein for me.. but I never do.

I keep thinking that there are two types of artists… you know the debate… process or product. I am so about the process. Don’t get me wrong…. I need the product to be visually appealing and well crafted. There is just something about the process of this dyeing that quiets my pretty over-active brain.

I have mentioned that I studied fine arts. I loved my studio time. Me, a big piece of paper with a hefty tooth to it, some charcoal or conte’ crayon, and a boom box. (Yes… we all had boom boxes.) I could spend hours on the thing. At the beginning of the session it felt like the piece was fuzzy and out of focus. With each stroke, each line, each addition and each subraction, my vision would start to clear. And eventually, there would be the moment that you knew it was done. You felt it was done. Instinctually, you knew you had finished whatever you started.

This whole fiber arts road that I am on is really fufilling that need in me. The need to tie myself to something bigger. Creating really is my joy. I forgot that for awhile. I am glad I am remembering now.

So, the Project Spectrum thing. I am so glad my girl Lolly?had the idea. I figure my participation is in the yarn dyeing… I am having a hard time with the keeping up with knitting in the color.? Well, I am having a hard time in keeping up with a lot these days.

I am blue… but in the best of all possible ways. There is a mound of blue yarn waiting to make it’s way to you all….

OH! Speaking of that! I am doing the last run of June Bug tomorrow for the?Sock Club. ?PLEASE let me know if ANYONE wants a single skein of her. I can slip it into the run easily. I am going away for the weekend and want to be set before?I head to Connecticut.

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Click on the girls to see some new C*EYE*BER FIBERS…..

I have been reading about the knitting blahs… the loss of the knitting mojo. I, myself, have felt the non-mojoesque like feelings as of late. I have whined… I have *sigh* ed… and now… I am enamoured. I knit a square. Mind you not just any square… a log cabin square from the Mason Dixon Book.

There is something so soothing about the patterns in the book. I am doing a log cabin baby blanket for a friend who is due any minute. Here it is: