Yes I have been busy....

camel and silk and silk (2)
Originally uploaded by minihahas10

Well, it has been a while since I did a post and yes I have been fairly busy and what I have been doing has been relatively unexciting. Spinning, more spinning, knitting, knitting, knitting, oh and one of the kids broke his arm on the first visit to the park for years.





I have been spinning baby camel and silk, then plying it with Mulberry silk, planning on making a top for myself at this point.

I ended up with 325g and 1260metres of yarn.  I had a bit of Mulberry silk left over so I continued spinning that.

I think I have 282g and 850m of pure Mulberry silk yarn.

And here they are together.  I don't know that I will need both for the garment but I have plenty if I do.

I've also been doing a few smaller bits.  I got tri coloured plaits of fibre from the wool show and I have been spinning up each colour.  The fibre is actually real crap, short staple, slubs..gross.  Not a pleasure to spin at all.

And then there was the day I took the kids to the park.  The weather was lovely and we haven't been to the big park as it didn't have a toilet, till recently.  The second eldest had given no.2 lad a rip stick a week beforehand, it's like a skateboard but with one roller blade wheel at each end and a larger range of movement.  After watching the boy on it doing ok, then the two younger girls falling off it.  I wasn't surprised when one of the girls came over to me telling me that the boy had fallen off and hurt himself.  I told her to go get him and bring him to me and I knew before he was too close that his arm was broken.  He has a broken Radius bone about 10cm below his wrist, it's called a buckle fracture, not quite right through but pretty close. 

His sisters sig says it all 'I broke this arm, love Ashtyn'

He had a half cast splint for the first week, then more xrays and this lovely blue number, we go in again this week (wk3) for more xrays and he may have the cast reduced to his elbow again.

I've also spun some 4 ply cabled sock yarn, knitted a pair of socks and dyed my friends wool so I can knit her a cardi.  For some reason I can't use  the url's from my flickr so you'll just have to check it out for yourselves. 

And I have pc issues, my laptop is currently not working so I am using a POS that is better than a kick in the a** but not perfect.

Well it's the down hill slide to Xmas again.  This year has positively flown by hasn't it?