Busy, Busy!!

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!!