The Witch Learns to Stitch

well the spindle I bought off Etsy arrived yesterday along with 3 kinds of roving, Corriedale (blue and green), Blue Faced Leicester (undyed) and Merino (the hand dyed blue). I started spinning the merino last night and I am quite happy with it so far







And here is Rohan playing with some needles and yarn, just had to throw it in for the cutness factor

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here are the promised photos of my sock yarn and sock in progress from the other day





And this is what it looks like today, not much differnt but there is a few more rows on there, its getting there....slowly....

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well we were in the book store today and I thought I would look at what they had in the way of knitting books. So I am looking through all the craft books, all I could find were some books with patterns that looked like they were direct from the 80's (not my sorta thing), and a couple of books that I would have liked except for the fact that they were $60+, then just as we were about to leave I was digging around behind some other books and found Stitch & Bitch, so I snatched it up hehehe, I now own my first ever knitting book...

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well I have given into the pressure. I am knitting socks (pictures to come). I guess I am enjoying it, it is challenging though lol.
An article on Knitty says that using double pointed needles feels "like you've got an unruly hedgehog in your hands", well all I can say is that my hedgehog likes to bite, I think it may have rabies.

I will probably add some pictures of the toe of my sock tonight if I get a chance...

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