Fiber Arts Friday - Love, Love Actually

Welcome to Fiber Arts Friday!  Knit, Spin, Sew, Weave, Crochet...Yarn! Yarn! Yarn!  Have any of these words entered your vocabulary this week?  You know that they have with me.  Last Friday I cast on The Love Socks.  All over Facebook and Ravelry, I saw the adorable striped socks with the sassy heart heel and knew I must knit them.  Of course, I changed it up a wee bit.

I am using Studio June Sock Yarn from her 2011 Sock Club.  Yes, I have a sock obsession and I'm not afraid to admit it.  I was buying sock yarn long before I was knitting socks and now I am finally starting to put a dent in my bin of sock yarn.  Since I picked such a colorful yarn to knit with, I decided to ignore the stripes.  I am very pleased with how this sock is turning out and hopefully by Sunday I will be casting on it's mate.

Yes, I actually knit a swatch

Tournament 7 has started with Nerd Wars and I am, again, on Team Precious.  I have decided to knit The Water's Edge Shawl written by my friend Kelly Jensen.  I love her patterns!  I am using my handspun yarn as the main color and Madelinetosh as the secondary color.  This will be the first time I've knitted with Madelinetosh.  I want to see what all of the fuss is about the yarn.  Now the trick of this shawl is that I have to M1R and M1L (Make one Right/Make one Left) which has caused me much fuss in the past.  I'm ready to beat the darn "make one" until I get it into my head ;-)

I've also been spinning up some lovely yarn.  I've dyed some new fibers that I have in my Etsy Shop of Wonder.  I have this Merino/Bamboo/Nylon blend that I've been spinning up which has been a lot of fun.






I also have been spinning 100% Cormo.   It's the first time I've ever spun Cormo.  My friend Char owns Corm 24-7 and I finally got some of my roving to spin.  It is lovely.  I'm on the second bobbin so so I shall be plying.

So...that's been my week.  I haven't been busy at all ;-)  Not at all.  Share your adventures in Fiber Arts!
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