Life is Crazy

It's been a while....two plus years!  Life sure gets busy.  Over the past two years I have been blessed with wonderful and close friendships with my knitting group.  We started out Tuesday night Sit n Knits at the local yarn shop.  When the shop closed, then moved further away we decided to continue to meet.  We meet at each other's houses at least one a week.  Last month we took our second annual road trip to Dayton and Cincinnati.  We enjoyed A Wool Gathering at Young's Jersey Dairy and a trip to Ikea.

I've been busy spinning and knitting.  I finally got the hang of drop spindling and am enjoying some small portable spinning projects.

Here are some recent photos:

                                         Fiber and spindle purchases from A Wool Gathering

                                                                       Car Spinning

                         Fall pumpkin colors on my wheel.  Pepper is quite the spinning helper.

                                                     One completed school colors sock!

Busy Sunday

Pepper, BigJ, and I spend most of the evening in the "bomb shelter" which allowed me to be quite productive.  I managed to complete the apron for BigJ's sister, spin for an hour, knit on Ishbel and Citron. I seem to be on a shawl kick; I'm really enjoying knitting them.  I have several that will go with me on our upcoming 10th Anniversary cruise and I think I'm getting ahead on Christmas 2011 knitting.  I also managed to photograph some finished projects.
I anticipate further crafty productivity today since it is the Fourth of July and we will probably hang out in the "bomb shelter" again this evening. Pepper's Thundershirt has been very helpful.  She is much less anxious when wearing it and even sleeps through some of the calmer storms and quieter fireworks.  It was a great investment; well worth every penny (we paid less than $40.00 at a local independent pet shop).