handmade by stefanie

It's an unusual WIP Wednesday! Though, I have many, may WIPs, most of them are still in hibernation until my arm issues resolve. So, currently I am working on crocheting a cute little bunny with some hand-dyed yarn I bought at YarnCon last month: ( yarn and pattern details here in my Ravelry notebook ) Since spinning is another activity I can do while waiting for my left arm to get back to normal, I decided to start spinning the two Foxy Batts I bought in the Yarn Hollow booth at Ply Away last month. Tilly is guarding my first single, and I'll be spinning another to ply with it: I've been working on self care to get back to my regular knitting routine as soon as possible, and I'm getting closer, but I'm not there yet. Over the weekend, I was able to finish a project that's been on the needles since mid-April, the brioche cowl with 2 colors of Art Yarns Merino Cloud (you can find Artyarns yarn here at Patternworks ) . ( yarn and pattern details here...

It's pretty much the usual suspects this week. I've been trying to work a bit on each project on the needles so that there is somewhat visible progress; probably the most measurable progress from last week can be seen with my Ancient Arts socks , which are almost ready for the heel. I'm still working on the gusset decreases for the Light Saber socks , but check out my new project bag that coordinates perfectly with the yarn! The Royals socks have also seen some action; the actual team has had a bit of a losing streak on the road and I hoped that picking these socks back up would help pull them out of it....and I'm not sure I can credit knitting on these socks for making that happen, but the day after I started working on them again, they did seem to come alive again. Works for me! Unfortunately, all of the sock projects I have on the needles (along with typing for 9 hours a day) seem to be aggravating my golfer's elbow, so I'm going to have to pace mys...

After mixing things up with some handspun projects over these last few weeks, I find myself back to all sock yarn, all the time. I guess it was just a matter of time! The Royals socks  continue to grow; I'm starting to think about where I need to place the heel, because there are a LOT of games left still. Thankfully, Tyler has big feet, and at this point, I can calculate exactly how many stripes need to be reserved for the foot, post-heel. The BFL socks have started to see some action in the form of a productive afternoon at the Revolution Tap Room last Sunday - I'm just doing a simple knit and purl arrow design for the leg, which was actually a stitch pattern from the Boson Cowl I knit not too long ago. When I brought home these 2 skeins of Artyarns Merino Cloud from H+H last month, I knew they were going to be used in a project together....but of course, I had no idea what  that project might be. I'm not sure where I finally got the idea to look for a two-color...