Sadness...

My friend Claire died this afternoon.

She was 36. She has two beautiful children aged 2 and 4 who meant the world to her. She has a husband who adored her.

I miss her.

FUCKING FUCKING FUCKING BREAST CANCER, YOU FUCKING FUCKER......

I can't really think of anything else to say. Sorry...

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden...

Sorry about the absence from the blog. I've been a bit busy with "stuff" the past few weeks. You know how it is...

Anyhow, I do have a bit of crafty stuff to share with you.

The boring socks are finished:

Progress on my Gathered Pullover has been Zero so I won't even bother showing you a picture.

I've started another pair of socks in Skein Queen's "Plushness" yarn in Chocolate Teal. I've almost finished the first one so will post more pictures when they're done.

Most excitingly of all I've been busy at my wheel. Just to jog your memory, here's a picture of one of my very first attempts at spinning:

And now, even though I still have a very long way to go before I'm producing perfect stuff, I can show you this:

and this:

The first picture is of some roving I had in my fiber stash. It's definitely pure wool but I'm not sure what breed it is or even where I got it from. I don't even remember buying it. Weird. Mystery fiber has started magically appearing in my house!

The second picture is a single skein I spun out of Blue Faced Leicester roving bought from an awesome Etsy seller called Dyeabolical Yarns. The colour is "I never promised you a rose garden". There's only about 109 meters and it's sock weight so I'm not going to get a pair of socks out of it. However, if I ply it with something else, I should be able to get a pair of fingerless mitts or something similar. For now, it can sit in my stash as it's pretty to look at and I'm just enjoying the fact that I actually created it myself.