My new love and I quit

So yesterday I went to the Sheep & Wool Festival at Mount Bruce Station with my buddy Amanda. While there I met the new love of my life.


Isn't it beautiful? It is 55% angora/45% merino and is called Orchid Mist. I keep petting it because it is the softest thing I have ever felt. Now I need to practice my spinning so I do not mess this beautiful roving up!



So I feel like a horrible person but I have given up on the scarf for the Red Scarf Project. I HATE the Vanna's Choice yarn! So much so I will be returning the unused ball to Michael's. It knits up very stiff and is splits like hell! I know myself well enough to know that I will not finish the scarf by the deadline so I quit. Maybe next year I will be able to get my butt in gear sooner so I can donate something to this very wonderful project.

Starting tomorrow Lolly brings us her annual ode to socks - Socktoberfest. I am still plugging away on my first sock using the Yarn Harlot's basic recipe. I have finished the ribbing for the cuff and started the stockinette foot portion. I hope to have the first sock finished before the end of the month.

I have also decided that I need to get working on my Icarus shawl. I really want to wear this to church on Christmas Eve so I need to get going on it. I do not know if it will be done by that deadline but I am going to try. Until next time ....

I went to the doctor and got good news for a change ...

but I AM NOT pregnant! I went to the doctor on Friday though and finally got some good news. My A1C Hemoglobin, which test how steady your blood sugar is over a 6-12 week period, in finally under 6. So what does this mean you ask? It means that I can finally, after 6 months of waiting, go on my fertility drug. It also means that my chance of have a baby with abnormailties is now the same as a woman without diabetes and, more importantly, my chance of having a baby over 10 lbs is drastically reduced. Now this is really good news to me since babies are big in my family without the diabetes risk. My sister and I were both over 9 lbs and my brother was over 8 lbs. So I am excited and scared about this next step but my eggs are not getting any younger here!

So I have started a My So Called Scarf for the Red Scarf project and I need to get moving to get it finished in time. I am using Vanna's Choice yarn by Lion Brand and I am not happy with it. It is very splitty and does not hold up to frogging very well. Oh well, live and learn I guess. Until next time ....