The perfect Sunday

It's Sunday afternoon around 3pm and I'm basking in the sounds of every day life; a neighbours lawnmower outside, the washing machine gently swishing my towels, the Bozo muttering happily over his model tank and the Moo purring contentedly at my feet. Talk about your idyllic Sunday setting...all I need now is tea and cake.

Speaking of tea and cake; this morning my lovely Bozo and I went for a womble down the street to visit the local antiques emporium. I've been eyeing their pretty teapots and teacup trio's for a while now since my friend inspired me with her collection of Royal Doulton tea cups and saucers. So while I was there I decided it was high time I started my own collection. Unfortunately I couldn't afford the gorgeous stuff hiding away in the cabinets (time to start saving) but I did manage to pick up a really pretty set for a really reasonable price. Here are some pics (which I've taken with the awesome new skills Ive been learning in photography class at TAFE).

pretty bone china tea trio

I've also managed to get some knitting done in the last few days which has been incredibly therapeutic. I finished my handspun Gail that I've been working on for ages and I have started knitting a beanie for one of my TAFE classmates.

My handspun gail



Beanie for classmate

All things considered, I'd say this weekend has been pretty darn awesome.

News flash; Image heavy post causes readers eyes to bleed

I thought it was about time I updated again. I've been super busy with my TAFE studies the past couple of weeks. I had two assignments to hand in last week and one due tomorrow, which includes a presentation. I worked on it all day Saturday and most of Sunday and its finally ready.

On the craft front, in the last month Ive been buying fibre and yarn (as usual) and spinning a little. I also finished my angorino socks...you know, the ones I made from this fibre. They're wonderfully warm and super soft, here are a couple of pics of them all finished.

I purchased some more sock yarn, some of which I had dyed specifically for a project I want to work on. I also got some more of that gorgeous super angorino fibre from Ixchelbunny.

Super Angorino Fibre
'Unending Afterthought'.



Gorgeous hand dyed sock yarn
in 'opal blue'.



Lovely sock yarn from EGMTK
in shades of dark green.

I spun up the hopeful monsters fibre that I purchased and it has become a gorgeous sock yarn. It looks like this...

220m of gorgeous sock yarn
made by me :oD

I bought a huge amount of merino fibre and some angelina fibre from EGMTK. I've blended some of the angelina with some of the 'Maeve' colourway and spun it into singles. I'm plying it with a strand of pure silk. Pictures of the finished product next post ;oP

200g Merino - colourway 'Maeve'.



200g Merino - colourway 'thistle'



200g Merino - colourway 'mulled wine'



5g Angelina fibre - purple flash



5g Angelina fibre - calypso blue

I have also received my february fibre club installments. I was very lucky and managed to get an extra braid of the Ixchelbunny fibre club. Here they are...

EGMTK fibre club
150g Merino top
'Little speckled hen'



Ixchelbunny fibre club
200g Blue faced liecester,
angora bunny and Kid Mohair
'Oasis'




Ixchelbunny Funky Bunny Batt Club
136g Angora, merino, silk, soy silk,
yak, kid mohair, Wensleydale, angelina, glitz and
american currency
'Sea Poet'



Outer side of the batt



Inside the batt

So as you can see, I've not neglected my fibre addiction while I'm busy studying. Or my yarn stash for that matter. I unfortunately havent had much time to knit but I guess thats a trade off I have to be prepared to make. More fibre coming soon. Lol.

Finally some time to spin

Hi again everyone, I finally found some time to get some spinning finished on the weekend so I think that means its time for another Oztion update. It's all handspun this time as TAFE has kept me so busy that I've hardly any time to knit.

Stonewash Rock God
2ply lace weight
$30.00



Stonewash Rock God
2ply lace weight
$25.00



Party with your harem pants on
2ply art yarn
$25.00




Party with your harem pants on
2ply art yarn
$25.00



Party with your harem pants on
2ply art yarn
$20.00



Sponge Toffee Hangover
2ply sock yarn
$20.00

That's it for this update. Hope you like my yarns :oD

Craft Expo jollies and Jitterbug fish scales

I popped into the Craft Expo at Newcastle Entertainment Centre today to have a look around. I was kind of disappointed that it was mostly geared towards quilters and bead fans but I did manage to find a yarns galore stall hidden away in the back and of course I'd been looking for yarn with little hope of finding any so I was delighted when I discovered a skein of Colinette Jitterbug and a skein of Noro Kureyon Sock yarn. I bought them both of course. :oD

I've already started knitting the jitterbug up into a gorgeous sock pattern by Cookie A (a most amazing sock designer) which you can find for free on Knitty.com. Its called Pomatomus and looks kind of like fish scales. This is the first time I've knitted socks from the top down and its apparently quite a challenging pattern so we'll see how far I get with this little escapade.

Suddenly hectic

I can't believe I'm about to say this, but I've been so busy lately that I haven't had time to blog or spin or even knit that much. Why? Because I have gone back to full time study. I am learning all kinds of interesting things; like how to use my camera properly for one. This is exciting to me because I hope to one day be able to take REALLY good photos with my new found knowledge. Here are some of pics I took during my photography class last week.

(c) Scolley 2010



(c) Scolley 2010



Yep, I even take my knitting to class
(c) Scolley 2010

Being a full time student might have slowed down my spinning but it sure hasnt stopped me spending my dosh. I recently purchased some equipment I've been needing for quite some time; a niddy noddy, a yarn winder and a maintenance kit for my wheel. I have also been buying fibre like its going out of fashion.

I took delivery of some lovely mulberry silk top which I then proceded to dye a pretty variegated blue/purple/pink/white colour. I still have 112g of this silk undyed and waiting to be transformed into something incredibly vibrant. As part of the same order I also got some cool pale yellow thread that I'm thinking will ply really nicely with some of the other fibre I have in my stash.

The 104g of mulberry silk that I have dyed
using food colouring...braided and ready to spin



Still waiting to be dyed



Mellow Yellow thread from EGMTK

I purchased some very pretty BFL/angora bunny/silk braids from the delightful Ixchelbunny, and next week I am expecting the delivery of three fibre clubs. I love fibre club week...its all very exciting.

200g of Hopeful Monsters