Stash = Warm Fuzzies???

So I've just realized how very, very fall I've fallen in the world of fiber crafts.

I've recently taken up spinning. I started spinning this great hand-dyed BFL, promptly lost most of it, plied what I had (1.1 oz out of 4), and finished up spinning this romney I had. Or all I could find. I had 4 oz of lovely lovely merino/tencel for the Tour de Fleece - but really that was it. And one day I said to myself, Self, this is not okay. I need a stash. I have no stash to speak of when it comes to fiber.

So what do I do as soon as my paycheck comes in? Spend almost all of it on Etsy, at various sellers of fiber, of course! I now have well over two pound of fiber, split up in different tops and rovings, with 9 more oz's coming in with a spinning wheel scheduled for a Wednesday delivery. And I just found the rest of the BFL, or most of the rest.

And I feel warm and fuzzy thinking of this small mountain of fiber. I don't collapse in fear, shrinking away from the amount of spinning WHICH I WILL NEVER FINISH OH MY GOSH. No.....no. I still make frequent trips to the yarn store which is very conveniently RIGHT on the bike ride to the library, which I must make thrice a week. I still plan more and more projects. I still covet the stock of 4 4-oz rolags of romney on Etsy. (I feel a vest. I really really do. Actually, a pound is enough to make a size small sweater, right? Right??)

Wow. Anyway. I clearly need help.

But how can anything that feels this right be wrong?????

Pictures later.....goodness gracious...

So I figured I'd put something new on for Ashley so she has more than one blog post to read. :DDD All for you, m'dear! Except for I suck at pitchurrrrrrs. So those are the finished socks. So I made these socks for my dad for Christmas, right? Right. And I didn't even get to the heel on the first one. Then I got through the heel after Christmas. Then I realized I messed up so I ripped back (I HATE ripping back). Then I put them down, and then I picked them back up and started again.

And then I finished them. The elastic I used in the heel and toe (considering they were a 100% wool yarn otherwise) hurt my hands very badly. My cousin is talking to me on facebook and so I am distracted and so I am going to cut this short. But anyhow, here are some pictures. Please not on the picture of them being modeled, they are on my size 5-and-a-half-feet. My dad wears size-nine-in-mens' shoes. So. They don't quite fit. But yes. Please refer to top of blog for pictures because I can't figure out how to put them below text. But alas poor Yorek. I shall figure it out. (Zack, if you're reading this, you should help me because I fail and you rock and <3,>

Bye nonexistent masses and Ashley! :D

PS......theatre kid outings have to happen. Speaking of Ashley, I be jealous. XP

'Allo, 'allo.

So I suppose this will be my Official Knitting Blog. Oh, but Zack and Ryan would have a field day if they found this.......I may have to send them a link. They'll probably die laughing. "omg knitting blog!!!11!!" (Zack. I am staying away from the creepers. Knitgrrl42 is still in action. I don't want to hear it.)

Well, I'll also spin here. That's the main reason I got this - to keep posts updated with Tour de Fleece. I'll be spinning some merino/tencel into laceweight (I hope...) on a Golding spindle that I'm going to purchase today or tomorrow. Mmmmm.

Yeah. Goodstuff. So I'm super tired, so I'm peacing out, but....yeah. :DD