Fiber Frolic and stuff

Still alive! I need to work on posting on a regular basis.
In good news, I went to the Fiber Frolic down in Windsor. It was fun if hot and sunny. I managed to get a small sun burn along with my fiber. Mom was wonderful and drove down with me and carried all my fiber, she bought some stuff as well(actually I paid for it because she left her purse in the car). There were llamas, alpacas, sheep, goats, and bunnies there with all of the fibers for sale.

The vendors that were there had awesome stuff, and the makers of Merlin were there(the wheel not the tv show).

I bought fiber, from quite a few vendors. I now have fiber in colors called: Thor's Hammer, Downeast, Galaxy and the like. Though my favorite fiber was the yak and silk blend that I bought(Mom bought it for me actually but I paid).

So very pretty

All in all it was a very successful shopping trip.

In other news I signed up for the Tour de Fleece, hence the fiber buying. I am knitting my self a cowl that is hooded, Thorin's Hooded Cowl, so far I am still working on the cowl part.

Trying something, I am dyeing yarn with Kool aid, it is coming out greener then I wanted but is still a good color. I think I might over-dye it at a later date.

The dogs are enjoying the nice weather and so is Estel as now that the dogs spend time outside she gets the run of the house.

The flowers are doing well, as are the garden though the vegetable gardens are all fenced in to keep the dogs from eating everything again.

Hellebore

Rogue pansy

In other stuff: SPOILERS

I need to post more

A lot of things have happened since my last post. My cat has decided that she doesn't like salmon anything; so we had to switch her food to one that contained tuna, not salmon. She is quite happy with this change, why she doesn't like salmon is lost to us mere humans. The dogs have found out that eating the plants in the gardens is really fun. So far they have eaten two entire pepper plants, some unripe tomatos, as well as my peas.

In good news my orchid decided that it was going to bloom and now has four flowers on it.

I did have to replace the stake that was holding it up as the one was too short to give proper support.

In knitting news I have finished the baby jacket I was knitting and started in on a project which is a gift for some one.

Pre-blocking

Post blocking

As the Olympics have started I have started the first of my ravellenic knitting projects. It is a tea cosy patterned off of John Watson's sweater pattern. No pictures yet. Right after I started I had to frog it as there was a math error in the pattern that was fixed, thankfully I was not too far along.

A few weeks ago I was working (volunteer) at an art show opening to benefit the library where I work. I was 'paid' in free food and drinks, both of which were very good.

Me, hard at work, taken not by me

And in interesting videos: Rowan Atkinson at the Olympics

SPRING

Spring has officially arrived, the temperature has risen over 60 degrees on more than one occasion. Midterms have also started and the semester is half way done. Spring Break is next week and people are already sun-bathing.

The anual spring flower show at the green houses has started and there are lots of flowers.

So many flowers. The theme of the show is wine, they didn't have any actual wine though.

Crocheting a blanket because I can and it seems to be going faster than when I knit blankets. I need to learn how to do granny squares. Pictures will be coming.

In a fight is was voted that Spock will beat Sherlock Holmes (There was voting involved).