First or Second and A Surprise At Fairs!

Here is a group shot.  All the items with their ribbons at Arizona State Fair.

Here is a group shot with all the ribbons from Arizona State Fair and Cochise County Fair.

This shawl got First place at County and Second Place at State.  Yarn:  Alisha Goes Around Panoply of Peacocks Fingering in Mark Anthony.  Pattern:  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/jaali-2

Ever year I knit up one of my hand spun yarns into a shawl to enter the next year's Fairs.  This was last years First place winning yarn and I got Best Spinner for it.  I got First place at State and County.  Yarn:  JulieSpins Merino Yak Silk in Colonial.  Pattern:  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sunshine-and-shadows-2

I got First place at State and County for this test knit hat.  Yarn:  The Verdant Gryphon Traveller in Hot Pink ELC and  madelinetosh DK Twist in Carnation  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/bridge-walker-hat

This was another sort of test knit.  It's was knitted in my hand spun yarn.  It got First at County and Second at State.  Yarn:  Wool Gathering July 2013 Fiber Adventure Club and JulieSpins Targhee in Glacier.  Pattern:  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/anemone-hat-2

This won Best in Show at State and First Place.  It was also First place at County.  Into The Whirled 50/30/20 Alpaca/Merino/Silk Blended Top in Sentinel.

This won First place at State and County.  Bee Mice Elf BFL Top in Nile.

This only got First place at County and nothing at State.  It's Loop!

Self Striping Spontaneous Spinning Roving BULLSEYE Bump in Quantum Leap.

Here is my bag of ribbons.  I had to get a bigger bag to put them in.  I've been entering the County Fair since 2013 and Arizona State since 2014.

Need to Knit Faster!

Here is the progress on my sample knit.  I have one more repeat of 8 rows and then a bunch of garter rows.

I had to start this shawl since its going to be a Christmas gift.  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/grand-teton-shawl

I'm trying to finish up my last of the rolag/punis.  I need more time or more arms!

Wish Me Luck!

It's that time of the year again, County and State Fair!  Since I've won First Place in both fairs, the pressure is on to win again.  Last year I won Best Spinner.  I hope to win that again.  Below are my spinning entries.

On the left is Bee Mice Elf 100% BFL.  In the middle is Into The Whirled 50/30/20 Alpaca/Merino/Silk Blended Top. On the right is Loop! bump  Merino, nylon, and Angelina.

I didn't finish a pair of socks.  I've been just knitting vanilla socks so for the first time I didn't enter socks.  The socks usually win so I'm a bit worried.  I decided to submit some of my test knit hats instead and 2 shawls.  The dark blue green one is huge and took a long time (no rest rows on the back).  I hope to find out the results in November.

Finish Plying BME

I got 584 yards from my 8 oz of Merino/Silk from BME (Bee Mice Elf).  It's 20 WIP which is about fingering weight.

I've been finishing projects and wanted to start one for me.  Details:

Needles:  Size 9 circulars
Yarn:  The Verdant Gryphon Codex in Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Pattern:  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/happy-hoppin-cowl

FO and Currently Spinning

I started these socks in Jan.  They aren't hard but I do have to look at the chart.  I finally finished them.  Details:
Needles:  Size 2 circular
Yarn:   The Verdant Gryphon Bugga! in Western Corsair?
Pattern:  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/golly-2

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I'm currently n-ply this 8 oz of Bee Mice Elf 80% Merino/20% silk.  The colorway is Oceanic.  I hope to get good yardage out of it.

Great Mail Day!

This came in the mail today.  I moderated the Bee Mice Elf Tour De Fleece team during the Tour De Fleece.  Laurs sent me this 100% BLF Nile as a thank you gift.  I can't wait to spin it up.  Check out Laurs fiber here:  https://www.etsy.com/shop/beemiceelf

Fiber, Yarn and Future Yarn

 



I had my eye on this fiber for a while and decided to get it.  It's from Bee Mice Elf.  It's 4oz of Targhee in the colorway Winterberry.

It took me the weekend to finish plying this yarn.  It's Loop! Kaleidoscope Eyes Sparkle 10.8oz which I managed to get 870 yards of light fingering.  It took a while just to get it off the bobbin!

On the Minispinner is Cloudlover M/SWM/Silk Tesla Coil (that is merino, superwash merino & silk).  It's only 4 oz.  I have another 8oz of JulieSpin fiber I want to spin up but I'll wait a bit before tackling that much fiber at once.