Last Saturday Kim and I kicked off our pre-holiday weekend starting with a Little Gingerbread Endeavor.
(And for those of you who are wondering, the answer is yes, red wine does in fact make gingerbread-house construction that much easier & more enjoyable.)
The gingerbread house (complete with a string of mini Christmas lights stuffed in the back to make the butterscotch-candy-pane windows glow becomingly) will reside in the library for the next few weeks.
Sunday we went to Gryphon's house for a spin-in. It was - in a word - glorious. Not only did we walk away with a lovely amount of fiberish booty from Gryphon's in-house shop, but I also walked away with a borrowed wheel for the next few weeks.
Booty.
Wheel.
(An Ashford Traveller double-treadle, for anyone who is wondering.)
Using this lovely little beauty I finished spinning both the dark purple & pale purple superwash bundles that I bought from Jessie a few weeks back. I was so excited by my progress that I went ahead and plied them together last night with amateurish yet exciting results for yours truly - and the resultant lovely huge skein is currently lightly weighted and drying in the kitchen. I will show you probably far far too many pictures of it when it is dry.
Dark purple superwash singles in all their wee loveliness.
It might not sound it, but I have in fact been knitting in addition to all of this spinning and gingerbreading - - and once I get the camera back in action and pictures taken, all of my recent FO's and two newly-cast-on WIP's will be shamelessly paraded in front of everyone.
Shamelessly. :)
Dark purple superwash singles in all their wee loveliness.
It might not sound it, but I have in fact been knitting in addition to all of this spinning and gingerbreading - - and once I get the camera back in action and pictures taken, all of my recent FO's and two newly-cast-on WIP's will be shamelessly paraded in front of everyone.
Shamelessly. :)
1 comment:
I am sure that, upon their return from Orlando and seeing the photos of the gingerbread mansion, my daughters will be coming to live with you. Every year they ask to make a house and every year I dutifully purchase a store bought kit. This year, I am fearing a full-fledged Martha Stewart manse in my dining room.
The spinning looks lovely (still think you are crazy). Hope you had a good holiday and enjoy what's left between now and the rest of the season!
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