Playing with New Toys

I have the Symphony working...and it spins like a dream! I LOVE IT!!!! I feel bad for the Lendrum, though, just sitting there, all folded up in the bag...but it will still have it's place in my ever evolving fiber life. The Harp I haven't figured out yet. I have a friend that has one, so I will be asking her for assistance with it...

Went to Chez Casuelle yesterday...they are having a FABULOUS sale! Tilli Tomas SILK yarn - $15 a skein. Lorna's roving 1/2 price...and it went on and on. Pictures will be posted on Flickr soon! :-)

Not Much Going On...

Well, since I last posted there has not been too much going on...On May 5th, I attended the Knit and Spin Because We Can event. About 25 to 30 spinners, knitters and/or crocheters were there. They had a "free" table and a "for sale" table. From the "free" table, I ended up with several crochet bed doll patterns and two years of the Annie's Bed Doll Collections!!!! From the "for sale" table, I bought a couple of tote bags from Tidbits, some this and that yarn, and a beautiful hand dyed skein of sock yarn. The sock yarn was hand dyed by the cousin of one of the group member. The cousin lives in Germany and had sent a box of her yarn here to be sold. I hope there is more, because it was beautiful stuff!

The next Saturday, May 12, I spent some time at Knit N Needle Nook in Mount Dora. Lora had a Russian friend there. It was fascinating to listen to them talking in Russian. I only understood one word - NO! hehehe But I am getting a little ahead of myself...On Thursday, May 10, I made a purchase...a rather large purchase... :-) I bought a Kromski Symphony spinning wheel in walnut AND a Kromski Harp loom. They arrived Wednesday afternoon and I stayed up until midnight trying to put them together...The wheel was about 98% complete and the loom maybe 50%. I will not be able to finish putting them together until this weekend because we are staying with a friend while her husband is out of town. I will have pictures of them posted soon...

This past Saturday (April 28), J & I went to a Fiber History Social day at a park near Jacksonville. There ended up being about 15 ladies there. We had knitting, spinning, crocheting, sew (on machine and by hand), tatting, weaving and combing wool for spinning. Even though it was a fairly warm day, we were set up on the front porch of the park's education building and there was a really nice breeze. Most of the ladies there are also involved in Civil War re-enactments - which I think is completely cool! Anyway, at the end of the day another lady came up with a couple of really great patterns for Civil War era dresses....She told us that JoAnn's had their Simplicity patterns on sale for $1.99 (yes, I did end up at JoAnn's)!!!! J & I left the part about 2:30ish to take in a couple of LYS. Knitwitz was the first we went to. There I bought light pink mohairish yarn for a gift I am making, a beautiful Fiber Trends shawl pattern, green lace weight yarn to make the shawl with, some yummy roving (lime green and a kelly green) and circular needles. J ended up with some really beautiful roving and a couple of SP gifts. We then made our way over to A Stitch in Time. Here to took advantage of some reduced price back issue Interweave Knits magazines. J picked up a couple of skeins for the Crayon Box jacket she is working on. We started home....

After a little while, we stopped to get a drink...and got back on I4. About half an hour later, we come on a sign that says Daytona Beach...It was at that point we realized, we had gotten back on I4 going the wrong direction!!!! So, we got ourselves turned back around and headed west. We had dinner at Don Pablos and decided to go to JoAnn's. We arrived at JoAnn's at 8:45 (closing time is 9). We quickly made our way to the patterns and started looking at the Simplicity books. I bought 5 patterns and J bought 4. We finally made it back to my house around 10! Since we had left my house around 6:30AM, it was a VERY long day!

Sunday morning, J, DH & I had breakfast in Mount Dora and then headed to Target. J was picking up some more SP stuff and I was just shopping. I found this really great, red bag on the clearance rack for $9.96...It is big enough to be a knitting bag and a purse, so that is what I am using it for.

This Saturday, May 5, is the Knit and Spin Because We Can event in Oviedo. I am looking forward to that. It is always nice to spend time with people who can understand my passion for all things fiber! :-)

On a non-knitting/fiber front, tomorrow (May 4) is the 5th anniversary of mine & DHs wedding. Ahhhh...Just thinking back, this time 5 years ago, I was in a laundromat because my mom's dryer had bit the big one the night before and I had to have dry clothes for my honeymoon!!! Also, on this day 5 years ago, DH's oldest brother's wife broke her heel in 10 (yes, 10) places as she was coming down the stairs of her house to leave to go to the airport to come to our wedding - needless to say, they did not make it to Florida! And, another event that took place that day happened to DH's parents...as they were landing in Atlanta, their pilot had to abort the landing because there was a plane (wasn't supposed to be there!) on the runway he was trying to land on....DH's parents said they were never so frightened in all of their life... Anyway, all turned out well (okay, sister-in-laws foot took a long time to heal, but she is walking like it never happened now)...