It's all about the socks

Pic heavy post - you've been warned!

Sock yarn, that's where it's at. You've seen my own private stash, well this week i've hit upon a brilliant plan to squeeze and love lots of yummy sock yarn without getting told off by the hubby - i'm making luffly sock yarn for the shop! Obviously if anyone buys any i'm going to have some serious separation issues since i'm in love with all of it.....

I've been knitting as well, still enjoying the mystery stole 3, i'm about a third of the way through clue 4, and i'm going to get further behind because i've got double essays due this week. Ugh. Excuse the carpet in the picture, 2 children + beige carpet = grim mess, and I don't have PSP on this laptop to crop it out lol.

Some of the girls from Stitch n Bitch came over last weekend to do some dyeing, they all dyed 200g of aran in some pretty pretty colours, some people (penguin julie!) were a lot more particular about it that others....

Julie 1 rinsing out her lovely variagated pink yarn

Joelle doing some cleaning up...

Penguin Julie (I call her that because there are 2 julies at s&b, and being a bear of very little brain I need to distinguish between the 2 on my phone, so she's penguin julie on my phone because when she first came to s&b she was knitting a jumper for a penguin) demonstrating how to make a yarn look as much like Noro without actually being Noro as possible.

Julie 1 modeling her fabulous apron..

Penguin Julie and Joelle doing a spot of stash worship...

After dyeing we all went to Pizza Hut with green hands, which was quite a feat considering it was only actually penguin Julie that used any green dye.

I'm also cracking on with the spinning, here's my first effort, slubby, uneven and hideous, but I did it!! Have convinced the husband he wants to get me a smaller wheel for my birthday, i've been eyeing up a Hitchhiker....

And finally, most random happening of the week goes to the email I recieved on tuesday evening, entitled 'Are you Gemma the knitter from Preston?'. I knew I was being spied on for the government! Well ok, it was actually from a lady who works in Starbucks in town who wanted me to help her out by gathering a few knitters to go in on friday morning and knit little hats for the Innocent smoothie fundraising thing. Ever keen to spread the good word of knitting, the Preston Stitch n Bitchers will be in attendance. The promise of a free drink and smuggled cake helped ;) If you live in or around Preston / Lancs and fancy joining us, we'll be in Starbucks on Fishergate from 9.30am onwards, come and say hello!

And that is all!