Off on holiday

And I CANNOT wait! We leave in the wee small hours of the morning and I have my Richard and Judy Summer Reads picked out - The House at Riverton by Kate Morton, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday and How to Talk to a Widower by Jonathan Tropper. Not sure how many I'll get through but do intend to do a fair bit of blobbing out by the pool. The children are so excited... they can't wait to get in that pool.

Have loads of ideas for new colourways bubbling away, including possibly one based on book covers, and just skeining up one of my favourites (do I always say that?) in red, orange, hot pink and green in cashmere/silk -with potential name of either Firebird or Strawberry Hill.

Just need to decide whether to carry on offering unique colourways or whether to concentrate on getting a dozen or so popular ones and repeating them. To be honest, can't see that happening soon. Am enjoying creating new ones too much and there's always the custom order if someone see something they like the look of.

Having been inspired by JustClaire's beautiful chevron scarf and as it's my birthday while we're away, made the rash move of ordering 2 skeins of STR in Sherbet colourway. Complete gorgeousness! Was a bit taken aback by the outrageous postage cost which was more than the cost of one skein, so decided it would make sense to order 2 instead! Well, it is my birthday. One does need a treat now and then. Then realised you actually need skeins in 2 different colourways. Doh! Must add it to my Ravelry queue.

Also as part of my birthday present, I ordered a drop spindle kit from a fellow Etsian, mainewoodsyarn, and then joined Natalie's Fibre Club over at The Yarn Yard.
Is it mad to covet lovely roving if you haven't even learnt how to spin yet? Yes, is the answer.

Finally, the lovely Piglottie pointed me in the direction of this great forum - Crafty Threads 'n Yarn which seems so friendly and welcoming. Thanks for that! What am I going to do without my PC for a whole week!

Obsession

Ok, this obsession with yarn and knitting is getting out of hand. Spent way too much time over at Ravelry - that place is amazing but sucks up time - was up til 2am on Saturday night just checking it out, adding photos of my projects etc - though half of my finished stuff has been gifts for babies etc so not many pics.

And then, as if I was a lady of leisure who just likes to hang out and chat and has stacks of time, I decided on a whim to sign up to this new social networking site for etsians - We Love Etsy.
Another great place - have already met some lovely people there.

Other than that, wound up my wonderful Watermelon yard from Freshisle Fibers:Doesn't it look good enough to eat? OK, maybe not - told you I was obsessed!

Completed a custom order of Fruit Salad for my lovely Texan customer and loaded in my Etsy shop:
Dyed up loads new colourways in cashmere/silk and Superwash Merino - just have to skein them all up this week and gradually add them to etsy. There's one I'm particularly proud of called Kingfisher... more on that in the next post.

Then, any spare minutes left, I've been reading these: