I hope everyone had a Happy New Year’s Day.
I don’t have any resolutions for 2009 other than to move more and to spend some time being creative every day.
I Thought I’d show you some new things today, what with it being a new year and all.
Gorgeous Girl has a new pair of pants. I hope they fit…
She’s asleep right now, so I can’t try them on her. I picked up the fabric and the pattern at Joanne’s on my trip to San Francisco last year.
I had my first attempt at plying. Here is my very first yarn spun on a spindle.
Behold, yarn barf.
This is the second spindle spun. I can see improvement…
This was spun in the grease.
Here is my first ever wheel spun. The brown is Jacob and the white is mohair.
There are parts of this that I’m quite proud of 
I also made 3 new scrapbook pages yesterday. I find I sticking bits of paper on a page while Gorgeous Girl is awake, much easier than spinning (little hands like to touch the wheel and stop the spindle) and knitting (where I have to count the pattern).
I sorted fabric for a new quilt yesterday as well. It’s kind of complicated, there’s templates and labels and stuff has to be sorted into bags for separate rows. To be honest I’m kind of intimidated and have been avoiding cutting. Today is the day though! It’s going to be a truly international quilt. There’s fabric in it from my trip to the USA, Gorgeous Man’s trip to Canada, and scraps from friends in Finland, and two friends in the UK, as well as South African Fabric.
We are taking Gorgeous Girl to visit a butterfly farm/zoo today. Hopefully she’ll enjoy it and there’ll be some good photo opportunities.
Ok, off to put rotary cutter to fabric -wish me luck.
I hope you managed to start cutting! I am at the same point with a quilt I want to start but was too tired over the weekend and just knew I would make mistakes. Today after work is the day!!! Love GG’s pants, ladybugs are a favorite of mine. Don’t know anything about spinning wool but it looks good and I am in awe of you ! Hope the trip to the butterfly park was good and we see some photos.
Our kids are wild for butterfly zoos. They are magical places.
Love GG’s pants – good for you! I hope they fit a treat.
And I think your yarn looks terribly cool! keep up the good work!
Hi Ruth! Happy New Year! Spinning wool now? You go girl! I love the zebra fabric in your last post too. And sewing clothes for GG and scrapbooking? You are busy that’s for sure. Variety is good you know! Hope you had a wonderful time at the butterfly zoo :^)
Great looking wool! And those pants are cool!
I look forward to seeing the new quilt!
Cute pants and nice yarn! I’m looking forward to seeing the quilt in progress.
The spinning is coming along nicely! The more you practice, the better it will get.
I love that ladybug fabric! Adorable!
Even though I know very little about the yarn stuff, it looks good to me! 
Good luck with your fabric cutting!
Happy stitchings, spinning, etc!
You have made such GREAT beginner yarns! You should be very proud of yourself – you know they all say that one day you’ll want to spin yarn like that and wont be able to as you are so used to spinning commercial like yarns!
Keep spinning and blogging as I am enjoying your journey!
Love the pants! I am no spinning expert, but your yarn looks great from here!
Good luck with cutting. Hope it went well.
I’m impressed with your yarn spinning and looking forward to seeing what you’ll create once you’ll learn to dye as well. You seem to be able to pick up craft skills very easily.
Hi Ruth, my Mum is the spinning queen so i feel suitably experienced to say, “Good Job!” That last lot looked like you were really getting the hang of it, love the pants….hope you haven’t turned to the dark side and barracking for those actually “winning” the cricket!!!!!! love tracey