SparkleShan

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I got a chance to get some spinning done this past weekend. It's been so long I actually finished 9 yarns in a week!! I also have a new favorite spinning technique. Skinny corespun thread plied. It's a combination of my past two favorite techniques. I also spun several other yarns as well. You can find all these yarns for sale in my Etsy Shop .

I really wanted to go to Rhinebeck today and had planned on going until I got a flat tire on the way to work Friday morning and had to buy a new tire :( I have never been to a fiber festival before. I guess I'll have to wait another year. So I decided that Emma and I would spend the weekend crafting and making new items that will go in my Etsy shop in a few weeks. Here's a sneak peek. I also did some spindle spinning and spun my first yarn on my wheel Since July!

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.

So I got to come back to the states a week earlier then the rest of the unit because I was in charge of making sure that all the mobilization Adminstrative part was all set and run smoothly (and trust me there was a lot to be done). We got 150 people through Fort Dix and demobilzation in 4 days when it normally take a week or more for less people then that. We arrived home on mother's day. What a great Mother's Day gift to see my little girl! It's good to be home but weird to. I'm used to having people around me ALL the time and now it's just me in the house. I have the next 3 months off to spend every day with Emma once school gets out and to do much knitting and spinning. I got a brand new spinning wheel that was waiting for me when I arrived that I need to learn how to use! I also had a lots of fiber that I ordered waiting for me. Prefect to practice on the new wheel with (like I don't have enough already). And the a wonderful friend from Ravelry Meliss...