UPDATES!

So many updates from the weekend, and they're all knitting related! Woo!

Tent filled with yarn goodies!

First things first, I got to go to a wool and fiber festival with Lindsay and Wendy who's from Lindsay's Stitch n' Bitch group in Taunton, MA. This was my first ever fiber festival, and it was just as good as I hoped it would be! After seeing other people blog about going to them I've been itching to find one in the area for a while. Lucky for me this one was right over the border in CT and was only about an hour away.

Inside booths

So fuzzy!

Also, there was a whole area with drop spindles and spinning wheels. Lindsay said she's thinking of learning how to spin and it inspired me. Maybe I'll take up attempting to spin next fall when it starts to cool down again. That way I can have fancy yarn that I make myself! 

As it is, I currently don't know how to make my own yarn, and being surrounded by such awesome hand spun/dyed yarn was hard to resist, so I ended up picking up 2 skeins of sock yarn.

This gray yarn in the color "Storm" is going to be used for my mom's mother's day gift. She knows it's coming so I figure it's ok to post pictures. 

I also picked up a purple and green yarn I just couldn't resist:

I'm not sure what I'm going to make out of this one yet, but I'm thinking something along the lines of a lacy scarf or shawl so that it won't get worn out too quickly like socks might. 

After the yarn festival I was even more inspired to work on my lacy socks, and..... they're finished! Hooray!

They came out great! I even wore them to class today, but then I took them off later once it got hot outside. Still, it was nice to wear them for even an hour.

Now that those socks are done, time to move on to bigger and better things. Aka, my mom's present that she asked for specifically, a lace center piece and coasters to be used on the coffee table. 

Being all motivated I got right to work on winding my new hank of sock yarn into a ball. Sadly... I tried to do this solo, and I have short legs so the hank didn't really sit well around my knees. After 2 hours of untangling I still had this:

But, now it's all wound pretty and I've started work on the centerpiece. Hopefully I'll have pictures of that to post soon. (mom, this is so you have proof that even if your gift is late, I've been working on it vigorously). 

Well, I think that's pretty much it. A very busy, but very productive weekend. I'm hoping to make it to the Taunton Stitch n' Bitch this Wednesday, so for once I can knit with other people instead of all by myself. I'm sure I'll have fun things to share about that later this week!