I’m rather behind in reporting this, but I’ve been “assassinated” in Sock Wars.  But “dying” has never been so good.  Take a look at the beautiful socks I received:

This is my first pair of socks knitted from TOFUtsies and they feel fantastic on my feet.  I may have to knit another pair for myself at some point.

I’ve been working on knitting my socks from the first (March) shipment from The Loopy Ewe sock club.  The yarn is Cherry Tree Hill and the pattern is called “Swirls” by Monica Jines.

One down, one to go.  They’re quite lovely!  I’m saving the second shipment (which included Wollmeise!) for Summer of Socks, which begins June 21st.

To be honest, I’ve been neglecting my knitting somewhat.  I’ve been spinning instead.  I’m finding that when I don’t spin for a few days, I really miss it.

I just finished spinning 8 ounces of Sakina Needles corriedale (in “Yellow Peony of Arkansas”) this morning.  I have it divided on two bobbins to be plied together tonight or tomorrow.

I also got my first shipment from CJ Kopec Creations‘ fiber club earlier in the week.  Take a look — isn’t it fantastic?

It’s a 2/3 merino, 1/3 colonial blend.  I love the rich jewel tones.  To be honest, I just plain love all of Coby’s fiber.  If you’re a spinner and haven’t ordered from her, you need to go to her Etsy shop and place an order now!  I could seriously spend my entire paycheck in her shop.  Not to mention, Coby is one of the nicest people you’d ever want to meet.

My fiber stash is slowly growing, but thankfully unlike my sock yarn stash, it hasn’t yet started growing far beyond the speed that I can use it.  I feel like I’m keeping up pretty well.  Then again, that may not be the case for long.

In addition to the fibers I’ve already mentioned, I also got some Sanguine Gryphon roving (Sheri from The Loopy Ewe was the enabler in that case) the other day.  It’s a merino/silk blend, which should be interesting to spin.  AND I just ordered an entire pound of Dark Bluefaced Leister wool from Hello Yarn.  Take a look(link) - isn’t it absolutely beautiful?

I guess I’d better get back to my spinning (and knitting)…