WIP's and Yarn Porn

This first pic is a spinning project I've been working on for the past few days. It's the same Olive Green and Grape Corriedale roving from Hello Yarn that I've been playing with, plyed with some Gold colored sewing thread that I had laying around. My tension was much more even while spinning this yarn, it's mostly a fingering weight and a little thicker when I wasn't paying attention...lol It's only approx. 65 yards long...so I don't know what I'll be doing with it. I'd like to spin enough yarn for a whole project...but I don't have the patience to do that on a drop spindle. I'm becoming more and more obsessed with needing a spinning wheel. I know it'll be a really long time until I can get one.....but that fact doesn't stop the drooling over the pretty wheels I keep seeing.

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This is Monica from Knitty. I am knitting this for my Niece's birthday coming up this summer. I am done with the front, just need to make the back. I'm using Brown Sheep's Cotton Fleece yarn in Prosperous Plum and Blush. My Niece is turning 3 years old and she wears a size 2 now. I'm getting a gauge of 5.5 sts/in when the pattern calls for 5 sts/in, so I'm just following the directions for a size 4 in the pattern, Hoping for an outcome close to a size 3. So far, it's working. So let's cross our fingers that it fits my niece properly.
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...and here's more yarn porn! From L to R: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock Lightweight sock yarns in Socktopus and Little Bunny Foo Foo, then South West trading Company's Tofutsies sock yarn in the Tenderfoot colorway. The Little Bunny Foo Foo I've posted before, but it was a crappy pic, and Socks that Rock are pretty soft wonderful beautiful yarns so it deserves another pic. :)
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I am also still working on the Twisted flower socks, and the Garterlac baby blanket. Both are coming along very nicely, but not as quickly as I wish they would..lol.


I also have a wonderful announcement! I'M GETTING A NEW NIECE!!! My Sister, Dawn, announced her pregnancy at Christmas, and last week she found out it's another GIRL!!!! I get to put a pink border around the garterlac baby blanket I'm making for her, and I can get some more gender specific colors to do more baby knitting with!!! I LOVE baby knitting!