SparkleShan

My Friend Brittany Wilson designed an awesome shawl, Gowan , and I did a test knit of it for her. I knit the shawl using hand dyed sparkle sock yarn from another friend Carrie. I used about 380 yards of yarn and the size of the shawl after blocking was 51 inches by 22 inches. You can check out Brittany's other awesome pattern designs here .                                           

Today I came home to two packages in the mail. I love getting packages, it feels like Christmas. First package was Fiber that I ordered from my friend Brittany. I was her 300th sale so I got an extra mini batt, which is the red one. I love it and want to buy the full size version. Then I got a package from knitpicks.com. So of the items are for me and some are for my Valentine Swap partner, hehe.

Because of packing, moving and the holidays. It had been about a month and a half since I spun any yarn. So today I decided to break out some yummy holiday inspired batts that I ordered from my friend Brittany's Etsy Shop , back in the beginning of December. Here is the lovely fiber I received from her. Emma loved the batts to, so she decided to use them as a pillow. I spun the batt on the right in to the below yarn. I got about 100 yards. I also spun this two ply yarn out of kettle dyed baby camel down and mulberry silk roving.

SO much for knitting gifts for Christmas this year! Between work, getting ready to move and the holidays I was only able to manage knitting one Christmas gift. I finished it on Christmas Eve. I spun the yarn myself from batts by my friend Brittany ( Bohoknitterchic ) and the pattern for the cowl was designed by her also. This was for my mom because she has to get up and go to work at 5am and it is often cold on her bus from opening and closing the door all day!

Now that I have a wheel, I have started spinning up my Fiber Stash. I spun up super soft pink and black Merino that my friend Melissa sent me. She is so great she sent me a package of fiber that was waiting for me at home when I got back from deployment. I love the wheel. Here are all the yarns that I spun up this month. And some more Fiber I ordered from Uniquely Yours , Bohoknitterchic and Jazzturtle . I was lucky enough to snag a June Fluff Phat Fiber Box too! I also got to met a wonderful friend that I meet on the Bad Knit Girl Group on Ravlery. Karen (angrypoddle)also lives in Connecticut, so we met up in West Hartford for lunch and desert. I also got to meet her wonderful like boy Liam. He loved Emma and she was sweet trying to help feed him.

A friend of mine, Brittany, has a wonderful etsy store, Bohemian Knitter Chic . She designs patterns which she sells on the site and she is also venturing into Fiber art. She has started spinning yarn and dying fiber, and let me tell you here stuff is pretty awesome. She has a great eye for color and makes wonderful inspired art yarns. She also started making necklaces out of Supercoil art yarn and they are truly unique, you can win one, just go to her Blog and check out what you have to do to enter.

I finally received my box from Phat Fiber today! I squealed with delight when I saw the box being brought to me by the unit mail clerk. It only took 5 days to get here, which is fast compared to the rest of the mail I have been getting lately. I opened the box and a wonderful smell came over me. I couldn't help but pet and snuggle the wonderful yarn and fibers I received. First are the Fiber Samples I received. From left to right: Giffordables 1/2 oz Batt of 75% Corriedale & Romney, 25% Silk & linen, it also came with a little bag of angora. Giffordables is one of my mew favorite Fiber Artist. I read a post on the PhatFiber Blog about her batts so I decided to check out her shop. The batts are wonderful and very inexpensive, I just had to order 4 batts from her. Not to mention that the owner, Suzie, is a sweet heart (I will be posting a seperate blog with more about Giffordables and with pics of the batts I ordered). Next the multi colored green is from Spincerely Yours (...