On my street

For the last few weeks we have had road construction on our street. The city is putting down new storm drain pipes and sewer it seems. What a mess this is, they are now right in front of my house and I am not sure I can get out of the driveway today. It looks like a great day to sit around and spin and knit.

I have been working on the purple socks some, the second one is almost ready to turn the heel. Turning the heel is one of my all time favorite knitting things to do. It seems like magic and is so much fun to see it become a sock. My cats love yarn. This one is Ginger. Sydney did not feel like posing today.

Here are the Opal lace socks I have been working on. I started these as 2 socks on one needle, but the pattern just will not work that way, so I am doing one as magic loop, my favorite way to knit socks and the other on dpns, since I only have one size 0 circ long enough for magic loop. I have been busy all week, I have done some more spinning, boy do I love it, and I have started knitting a hoodie for boy herd #4 with my spun yarn. I like the way it is turning out. I also painted 4 new spindles. I am going to start selling them on ebay.

I am pretty happy with the spinning, here is one of the skeins, I have 3 so far each is about 80 yards of 2 ply bulky. It is think and thin, I really like the look and the way it is knitting up. I will get some picutres of it going soon.