• **I forgot to remind you of the Summer Lovin’ K/C/S/W/NP-Along! Only one person is done, and some Color Wheel Yarn is up for grabs if you post in the FO thread by June 25!**
• Middle Tennessee Fiber Festival in Dickson Tennessee this weekend – I’m still considering going!
• East Tennessee Yarn Crawl – June 1-15 – if you’re interested, contact one of the shops to reserve your passport!

WIPs:

• Serpentine Socks by Wendy Johnson out of handspun SW BFL from Tempted
• Color Changing Cotton Shawl (with a fail.) (no link to shawl since I can’t recommend the pattern)

FOs

• Blue Lagoon by Lily Go out of DaizieKnits Shoot Base OOAK4 colorway with some purple handspun Wensleydale (with a fail)
• Urban Gypz SW Merino in Danielle colorway (with several fails)

Acquisitions:

• TriDye Yarn Club shipment from FiberCharmer

Summer Lovin’ A-long!  Anything inspiring you – colors, fibers, images – to think about spring and/or summer, go for it!  All crafty fiber arts accepted.    There’s a prize…. The Color Wheel‘s wool/nylon blend in her Ian colorway.  I have an indecision moment trying to decide what I’m going to make for this along… finally chose to crochet the Blue Lagoon by Lily Go with my Wolle’s CCC in Tealish Purple.

FO (of the week)

Epic1313 shared with the group her Montego Mystery KAL.  Beautiful, epic FO.  Well done, you.

WIP

• Pagona by Steven West in Noro King.  You get to watch me realize I did my math wrong and being disappointed in how much I actually have left.
• Cerisara by Bonne Marie Burns in Elsabeth Lavold Silky Wool has a sleeve started!  Woot!
• Handspun Socks in the Serpentine pattern by Wendy Johnson that had an epic fail this week.

Spinning

Finished up my friend’s silk hankies.  SO PROUD.

What’s Next

Indecision about my Koi Rama, and I want to get back to the Bigger On The Inside spin.

Announcements…

Kentucky Sheep and Fiber Fest in Lexington.  May 18-19, I will again be unable to attend.  Boo.

Spring/Summer Inspirations Along! Get excited about our new season and get the help of your yarn and/or projects! Any fiber art accepted. Current chatter group here. The Color Wheel Yarn has graciously donated a skein of yarn as a prize!

Finished Object…

Drizzle, and hat by MelSki in MadTosh Sport in Baltic colorway.

Works in Progress…

Cerisara by Bonne Marie Burns in Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool, body done!

Pagona by Stephen West in Noro King, 1st ball finished!

Handspun socks, toe done but is big, so shopping for new patterns.  Leaning toward Serpentine Socks by Wendy Johnson from Socks from the Toe Up

Spinning….

Working on those hankies for my friend.  Finally felt I wouldn’t destroy them1

Up next…

Still planning on the Tealish Purple CCC being crocheted.

Also, I show my potential inspirations for the -along!

Featured FO-
patternwhisperer’s Trillian

Wips-
Baltic Drizzle
Mandikat’s Evergreen Lace
Red Ceri
Neon Koi Smiles

Spinning-
for my Bigger on the Inside shawl, out of this fiber right here

Resurrected-
Noro Pogona

What’s Next-
Blue Lagoon by Lily Go in my Wolle’s CCC tealish purple as seen here
Check out Lily Go’s other patterns here

Summer Lovin’ K/C/S/W-along!
Find something that makes you think of summer and jump into the -along with whatever fiber craft makes you happy! We’ll officially begin the crafting in May!
The thread for the -along is here! There may be prizes, but I haven’t thought that far ahead yet.

FO-

Asterope by Romi Hill

WIP

Cerisara by Bonne Marie Burns

Drizzle by MelSki

Diagonal Lace Socks by Wendy Johnson (my handspun!)

Spinning

Girl Meets Spindle hankies

Prepping fiber for the Bigger On The Inside spin.

Next?

Need a shawl on the needles.

Want to work on some more CCC!

Koi Rama

Got the calendar on right updated with the three upcoming festivals in/around my area.

Finished my For Good!

Working on the same ol’ stuff… the Asterope and the Cerisara.  All red all the time.

Corespinning a balanced yarn is still throwing me for a loop.

Gearing up for my next set of projects… want to spin some blue for a Bigger on the Inside shawl, trying to pick out yarn for the Koi Rama a friend and I are going to work on together… feel free to join us!

Not much new to see here, finished that Haiku, working on the Asterope, and practiced a little core-spinning.

This week, for Nat’l Crochet Month, I worked on the Haiku shawl and got my Interweave Crochet in the mail. Afghan still sadly in the closet.

I finished up my stripey socks and plied the Gale’s Art camel/silk blend. (Gale’s etsy shop here)

I am working on my Volcanic Asterope.

I got my final shipment for Space Cadet Creations, and am not going to sign back up as I signed up for the Tridye Yarn Club.  Here’s a link to the info about SpaceCadet’s club, spots still open for the Tridye Yarn Club.

Also got an order from Girl Meets Spindle.  Her hankies, and pretty much everything else, are gorgeous.

I hope, next week, you may see some n-plied red-to-yellow gradient, and maybe a spun hankie.  Or maybe some afghan squares.