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Well, this year has been pretty busy so far!! I’ve been off the internet for about a month!! I started preparing for my church wedding, which took place on February 28 (we had a civil ceremony on leap year ’08 so the 28th was as close as we could get to an anniversary), in the beginning of February. Yes, I know, nothing like waiting for the last minute…but I find that I do my best work while under pressure!!
For the wedding, I knit my top and spun & knit my shawl in February. The top, Silk Ribbed Corset by Annie Modesitt, turned out sooooo well! (I knit this same top with a coordinating shrug for my maid of honor, but that was done last year!) I used Artyarns Regal Silk in the color of Snow. Suggestion: if you are going to make part of an outfit it is best to give more lead-time than me to shop for other parts of the outfit! I was running around like a mad woman looking for a skirt and shoes that didn’t completely clash – less than a week before the wedding! (Why is it so difficult to find cream/off-white in the beginning of spring…everything was black?!?) I also ended up spinning the yarn for the shawl because I couldn’t find any non-clashing yarn in any LYSs!
The shawl, Toe The Line Shawl by Chrissy Gardiner, also turned out to be awesome!! I am really in love with it, my most favorite wedding item (and the top is 100% silk and flattering to my robust frame – hard to beat). As already mentioned, I spun the yarn for this little gem. 
I used a little more than ½ a pound of Merino for a two-ply ~fingering-weight. In one of the plies I added some gold flecks (I have no idea what the actual product is called, but it looks like gold flecks). It was a beautiful fiber and spun into a beautiful yarn. It didn’t end up as thin as I wanted, it just didn’t want to be lace-weight. However, I was glad it didn’t once that I saw the finished item!
Now, I am going through a bajillion photos and catching up on all the things I put off while I had my knitting, spinning, knitting marathon that was February! Today or tomorrow I hope to get back on FaceBook, I went cold turkey off that otherwise I would have gotten married in the nude! ‘Nuff said!!! Now, I must get back to all these photos!!
Apparently I am a bad blogger. I haven't been moved to write anything. Since my last blog much has happened in my life, although not much has happened with fiber!
We made it through the election (whoo hoo!). We made it through family Thanksgiving at my parents house. I went on a trip to Florida for just shy of 2 weeks (drove down there with my Baba to visit my uncle). We made it through family Christmas and quiet New Year.
Jimmy is still fighting kidney failure. He's had some great days, some ok days and some unbelievably awful days. At the moment he's in the middle of a bad streak. He developed a secondary infection and is currently on the second antibiotic after the first had no effect. The vet is constantly amazed by his will to live - I have my fingers crossed that it continues, but I live in fear that every day is the last day.
All that has happened in a fiber way is that I cast on the Au Naturel Cardie (#24) from Knit'n Style June 2008. I am using Southwest Trading Company's Bamboo (color: Special). I am liking the pattern but am not all that crazy with the yarn at this point. Perhaps when it is finished I'll like it more, but in knitting it I am finding that it snags way to easily and way to often, and it splits often. I am also unhappy with the fact that every skein used so far has had knots in it - how freaking annoying!!
Au Naturel Cardie
From previous posts...Camel Silk Blend
Boobie Socks
