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Homespun school-boy

School-boy is done! It looks and fits pretty well for my first go at a sweatery-type designing. It only took 2 days to knit! It's knit in the round with no seaming but for 16 kitchner stitches at the shoulders. The monogram is double-stitched and was a total after thought. I'll post the pattern later. More importantly, check myhomespun yarn out! It's the beat me brown and blue from a few weeks ago. How freakin' nice is that, like he should be carrying a copy of 14th century Estonian Poetry (and yes, I know. I was going for stodgy and impossible to learn and that fits the bill - lol) and headin off to Oxford. He loves it and keeps thanking me thank you for knitting me a sweatervest mama, now will you knit me a tam? A tam! How does a three year old in America know what a Tam is, you ask? Well, my friend G (who is now boyfriends with the girl I used to crush hard on), who's aspiration it is to be the self-proclaimed gayest knitter in America, left his How to knit Tams so you can be the gayest knitter in America book here last night. He already is well on his way, he was featured in the City Paper's big bad GAY ISSUE, though I don't think he mentioned knitting. Oh well, I'm still proud. So, thanks G, now I've gotta figure out how to make one of those crazy things!

Yesterday B-ill and I dyed up a bunch of roving for this weeks spinning adventures. The orangey-red on the left was oven dyed, the next two bits, the blue/green/yellow and the orange/gray were done in the steamer, the lightish blue/purple was done submerged on the stove, and the pink/green on the far right was done in the crock pot. I spun it all out in my thrift store salad spinner and hung it out so all my neighbors can gaze upon it while smoking their ganja and flashing the peace sign. I can't wait to start spinning. The question is, where's it all gonna go?