Now Just because this isn't yarn...

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Doesn't mean that it isn't relevant.  We were up on Burnham Beach the other day and I was struck by the wonderful contrasts of colour and perspective.  It really is interesting the way the your eye gets drawn along and the reflection of those beautiful blues in the sky in the puddles on the beach.

Don't worry I haven't gone totally barmy.  Well, not completely anyway.  But I thought you might like an insight into what inspires me.  Although, at the moment how this will be translated into yarn I'm not quite sure, but I suspect it will have been by the end of the Winter.

But first Christmas is looming.  Not doing too badly on the present front.  I'm nearly at the end of the great sock marathon - on the last pair I shall be knitting for this Christmas anyway. Which leaves me with only a couple of items to take care of....  Hmmm, that would be a couple of woven scarves and a pair of Sarah Mittens.  That would be not quite Anna Zilboorg in style, but they can thank her for the original inspiration.

And so, I shall beatle off and finish those socks....  Not sure I shall be knitting any at all in January...  I do however have a comission for a modular shrug in hand spun based on some copper BFL by Freyalyn that I had put to one side and got spotted....  I suspect it will be a marled yarn with the other single spun from some flame coloured silk brick I bought from the Oliver Twist Stand at Fibrefest earlier in the year.

More yummy fibre pictures next time, promise!

Only 5 Weeks to Christmas...

Which is why I've been busy.  First the whole how many pairs of socks can I knit in 2 weeks popped up (I wasn't thinking straight, what can I say?)  The answer is 4 by the way (well, 3 and 1/2 if I'm being strict with myself, as the last pair was a men's UK12, so were finished a day late - bite me!).

After this, it's been a bit less rushed.  I am spinning.  The de-haired yak has been put to one side as my hands won't move fast enough to keep up with it at the moment.  I shall be back to it though, probably after Christmas.  Instead I've been spinning some very soothing baby alpaca and silk marled yarn.  I've finished the baby alpaca and am about half way through the Silk.  Yum.  Pictures once finished.

Weaving is moving v e r y slowly at the moment.  Hopefully, it will spread up in the next couple of weeks as I get over my Flu Jab.  And the same will be said of the huge pile of sewing and dressmaking that is sitting on the side sulking at me.  Hopefully, now I'm not so fluey, I shall be able to crack on.

So.  To recap. All is fairly OK in my little fluffy fibery world if a little scattered and very behind schedule so, nothing new here then!