County and State Fair Results

 I got first place at County for this shawl but nothing at state.

I got First place for County and State for these socks.

This Best Spinner award came with a $75 gift certificate!

This is the yarn that won Best Spinner, First Place for County and State!

All the ribbons together for the handspun.

This just won First place at County.

This won first place at County and Third place at State.

Gift Certificate Shopping!

I finally got a chance to head up to Phoenix.  Mesa actually.  I went to the Fiber Factory and got this with my gift certificate plus some cash.  The pink fiber is Romney for my daughter.  She picked it up and said "It's so PINK!!".   The other fiber is 50% silk and 50% merino.  The rainbow color yarn was also picked by my daughter for a hat.  Interesting choice but as long as she wears the hat, I don't mind.  I couldn't pass up the gradient set.  The purple yarn is a hat for the other daughter.

Gift Certificate

I got this in the mail.  It says "Best Weaver" instead of "Best Spinner" because the "Best Spinner" gift certificate is for a store in Prescott which the Best Weaver wanted.  This is fine with me since I've never been to the Fiber Factory.  I can't wait to check it out!

Sick One

Not me yet, but one of my girls was sick this week which means nothing goes as plan.  I did managed to get some knitting while waiting at doctors' offices.  Yes, more then one visit this week.

 Finished this shawl but ran out of yarn again.  I just did a picot bind off in grey.

Started this plain sock.  Need waiting around projects to work on.

Trying to finish these bird socks.  Getting close!

Just need to bind off but its 4 rows that only pick up 2 of the stitches.  I can only handle about an hour of this and then I need to go to something else.

Arizona State Fair Results

One handspun got first place and best in show.  I've never won best in show before.  I'm happy to have gotten both for this yarn.  I really like how it turned out and I'm glad the judges like it too.

My green handspun yarn got third place and the other yarn didn't place.

For my knitting, my socks got first place.  Second and third place went to my friend so I was happy for her.

My purple handspun shawl didn't place but I can't wait to get it back since it was knitted with the handspun that got first place last year.

What Have I Been Up To?

I have been trying hard to finish up some projects and almost done spinning a Loop Batt.

The grey shawl just needs to be bind off.  The problem is that in 4 rows, I only bind off 2 stitches (don't ask me how many stitches need to be bind off).  I spent an hour on it and it doesn't look like I did anything to it.   The Double knit shark scarf is SO close to being finished after a year.  I started in Sept 2014 and hubby loves the idea of actually using it this winter!  The colorful one is the Mermaid blanket I started for B.  It's very slow going and I only have like 8" done for the 44" I need.  Good thing its getting cooler so it won't be so bad on my lap.  I don't know if it will be done for Christmas or not.  The brown, yellow and blue is a shawl out of my handspun yarn.  I'm almost done one skein and like 7 more to go.  Here is some picture of the bump I've been spinning.

First Place for ALL!!

I don't have my items back (socks, shawl and 3 handspun yarns) but I have the ribbons and mark sheets.  The items are off to Arizona State Fair.