Socks, Infinity Scarf and Cyber Monday Sale

Talk about being busy this morning,...I really had my knitting needles flying this morning!!  Just look how far I got on this Spinning Ginny Original - Handspun - Dyed - Knitted - Pretty n Pink - Alpaca - Adult Ladies Sock - Size 5

Then, I put this down to go and knit on the Spinning Ginny Original - Custom Ordered - Handspun - Knitted - Black - Alpaca - Infinity Scarf.  I only had a little more to knit on it, then I could sew the ends together, wash it and block it.  Well, that's exactly what I did!!

 

I'm sure you all had a chance to visit my website for my Black Friday Sale, even though it was for only one day.  However, I'm very proud to announce that today, I'm back with another sale.  I hope that you'll come back and visit again.

CYBER MONDAY SALE

offer good only for today

15% off all items in store

http://www.spinningginny.com

 



The day before Thanksgiving

The day before Thanksgiving, and up in the spinning room

the only noise heard, was the whirring of a spinning wheel.

Buckets of hand carded batts, laid very carefully,

with high hopes of being spun into yarn very soon.

An almost empty bobbin was placed on the spinning wheel,

and oil was put in all the right places.

I began prepping, and getting ready for

a fun time of spinning.

When after one batt was spun up, I reached for another

Slowly the bobbin began to fill. 

The morning turned to afternoon, I whistled and hummed

while I worked.  I continued to spin and soon it was time

to put everything aside.  A fairly good days worth of work

was done.

A half filled bobbin is what I had done!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



plying up a new skein today.

I opened up the spinning room door this morning and set to work plying up another skein of 3 ply white alpaca yarn (this would make the 7th skein so far).

Finally, I finished filling up the bobbin after 2 hours and 8 minutes.

This is what my 3 bobbins looked like after I finished.  I wound the yarn off onto my niddy noddy, to make skein to wash and hang to dry.

The first bobbin is almost empty, the second bobbin is empty and the third bobbin has only about 1/4  still on it. 

Last week I washed up the 6th skein but didn't get around to taking a picture of it or make a label for it.

Then I went about straightening up and the spinning room and placing items out on display.

 

 



The day passed by too fast and I forgot that I didn't blog

I took this weekend off from knitting, to relax my hands.  However, this morning I was right back to knitting once again.  I was so engrossed in my knitting that the day passed by me, before I realized I didn't blog.  Sorry everyone!

Anyways I'm here now to post just how much knitting I did today.  I started off my morning knitting on my new pair of Spinning Ginny Original - Handspun - Knitted - Dyed - Pink - Alpaca - Adult Ladies Socks - Size 5

I only need to knit 24 more rows, before I finish the leg.

Then I picked up the Spinning Ginny Original - Handspun - Knitted - Black - Alpaca - Infinity Scarf

This scarf is knitting up fast, it won't be long now before I will be binding off and sewing the ends together.

The last thing I knitted on today and only just finished working on for the night is the Spinning Ginny Original - Handspun - Knitted - Purple Orchid - Merino - Cabled - Hat.

I only have a few more rows left to knit and this hat will be finished.  The day passed by me so fast, that now I will put my knitting away until tomorrow.

 

 



Overslept, Finished Socks, new pair started etc

Good Morning!  Sorry I'm late, but I was up late last night knitting and didn't get to bed until the wee hours, so when my alarm went off this morning, I slept through it. 

I finished the Spinning Ginny Original - Handspun - Knitted - White - Alpaca - Adult Ladies Socks - Size 5

I will be listing them here in a little bit. 

With the finishing up of this pair a new pair is started.

I'm still knitting away on the Spinning Ginny Original - Custom Ordered - Handspun - Knitted - Black - Alpaca - Infinity Scarf. 

It's really starting to grow now!

The new Spinning Ginny Original - Handspun - Knitted - Purple Orchid - Merino - Cabled - Hat is moving along quite nicely too.

Because I've been so busy knitting lately, my poor spinning wheel is being badly neglected.  Poor thing!  It needs a good spin around the spinning room.  LOL

 I told you this week was going to be busy!



More Knitting and One Finished Project

Oh boy, I have lots to share today.  Well, really I've been sharing quite a bit all week, but today's a little bit different.

First off, I'm almost done with the Spinning Ginny Original - Handspun - Knitted - White - Alpaca - Adult Ladies Socks - Size 5

I only have roughly 33 more rows to go and then this pair will be finished.

Secondly, I'm still knitting away on the Spinning Ginny Original - Custom Ordered - Black - Alpaca - Infinity - Scarf

Its really starting to get longer now.

Thirdly, I finished the Spinning Ginny Original - Handspun - Knitted - Pink - Merino - Cabled - Hat

 

 

and with the finishing up of this Hat, I started on another one.

This is going to be the new Spinning Ginny Original - Handspun - Knitted - Purple Orchid - Merino - Cabled - Hat



Knitting needles clicking away bright and early, with a little spinning later on

What do you do when you can't sleep?  When I can't sleep, I head into the spinning room and start knitting and spinning.  Today was one of those mornings when I was in the spinning room bright and early, with the knitting needles clicking away.

I started off knitting on the Spinning Ginny Original - Handspun - Knitted - White - Alpaca - Adult Ladies Socks - Size 5.  I finished up the heel flap and heel turn, then started in on the gusset.

Then I changed over to knitting on the Spinning Ginny Original - Custom Ordered - Handspun - Knitted - Black - Alpaca - Infinity Scarf.

As you can see from this picture, the sun was up and shinning in through the window, when I put my knitting down, to go and eat breakfast.

Later I came back and picked up my knitting needles once again, but this time to start in knitting on the Spinning Ginny Original - Handspun - Knitted - Pink - Merino - Cabled - Hat.

I picked up all 68 stitches around and 17 rows knitted for the body of the hat.  I have 5 1/2 inches knitted from the bottom edge so far and need to knit another 1/2 inches, before I start decreasing for the crown.

Now I'm ready to head over to the spinning wheel to finish plying.

Wow, this morning has been truly productive.  I just finished plying up the 6th skein of white alpaca, from Bellagio's fleece.  Here's what my 3 bobbins look like now after plying up 2 skeins.

The first bobbin weights 3 3/8 ounces (with bobbin) - 2 ounces (for bobbin) = 1 3/8 ounces

The second bobbin weights 3 ounces (with bobbin) - 2 ounces (for bobbin) = 1 ounce

The third bobbin weights 3 1/4 ounces (with bobbin) - 2 ounces (for bobbin) = 1 1/4 ounces

Total weight is 1 3/8 + 1 + 1 1/4 = 4 5/8 ounces left to spin

Now if I subtract the 3 3/8 ounces, I started out with, from the total amount I have left after plying up the 6th skein, it would look something like this.

3 3/8 - 4 5/8 = 1 1/4 ounces is what I should have in the skein I just finished plying up.   Tomorrow is another day and I think, I just might ply up the 7th skein then.

Knitting and Spinning at Spinning Ginny's

Good Morning!  Lots of knitting and spinning going on here at Spinning Ginny.  I finished up the leg and started in on the heel flap, on the Spinning Ginny Original - Handspun - Knitted - White - Alpaca - Adult Ladies Socks - Size 5

I'm getting closer to finishing up this pair.  I'm really liking how the pattern is drawing in the leg of the sock, yet making it stretchy enough to keep it from sliding down on the leg and yet feel soft.  Also it draws in the top of the foot a little more so that it won't feel so loose and baggy (unless you like your sock to feel loose and baggy, like I do).

Then I picked up the Custom Ordered Spinning Ginny Original - Handspun - Knitted - Black - Alpaca - Infinity Scarf and started knitting away on it.

I've really got this pattern nailed down now, I don't even have to use my computer to look up my pattern.  I truly enjoy knitting this pattern, although there are times were I do make a mistake (especially, when I'm knitting with black yarn).  

After knitting on the first 2 projects, I turned my attention to my new Spinning Ginny Original - Handspun - Knitted - Pink - Merino - Cabled - Hat.  Now originally I saw a pattern similar to this, but the hat was knitted with commercial yarn and also on size 10 double pointed needles.  I really liked the pattern, but since I was going to be using some of my handspun yarn and size 5 double pointed needles (that's the size I know works with my handspun yarn).  I knew that I'd have to write up my own cable hat pattern.  So over the weekend, I figured out part of the pattern and wrote it down, then started in knitting on it.  Today though I finished up the cabled portion of it and now I'm starting in to pick up the stitches along one of the edges.  

  I'm liking how this hat is starting to look.  Hope you do too!

Once I got my knitting done for the day, it was time to head over to the spinning wheel and finish ply up the 5th skein of Handspun White Alpaca Yarn.

It didn't take long though to finish filling up this bobbin, so I immediately started winding it off this off onto my niddy noddy into skein.  Then I washed it and hung it to dry.  Then headed back to the spinning room, where I weighted each bobbin again.

The first bobbin weighted 4 1/2 ounces (with bobbin) - 2 ounces (for bobbin) = 2 1/2 ounces of spun singles

The second bobbin weighted 3 7/8 ounces (with bobbin) - 2 ounces (for bobbin) = 1 7/8 ounces of spun singles

The third bobbin weighted 4 ounces (with bobbin) - 2 ounces (for bobbin) = 2 ounces of spun singles

 Total weight is 2 1/2 + 1 7/8 + 2 = 6 3/8 ounces left to spin

Now if I subtract the 9 3/4 ounces, I started out with, from the total amount I have left after plying up the 5th skein, it would look something like this.

9 3/4 - 6 3/8 = 3 3/8 ounces

is what I should have in the skein I just finished plying up.  Now its time to start in plying up the 6th skein.

Its 5:00 pm so its time to close up the spinning room.  I'll be back tomorrow though to knit and spin some more.

 



This weeks going to be a busy one

As I write this post, I’m enjoying a nice cup of hot tea and writing out my weekly work schedule.  So far its looking like this week will be very busy.  I have 1 more custom order left to knit and that's a Handspun - Knitted - Black - Alpaca - Infinity Scarf.  This I started on over the weekend.

I also need to finish up the Handspun - Knitted - White - Alpaca - Adult Ladies Socks - Size 5

Over the weekend, I also started on a new project,....a Spinning Ginny Original - Handspun - Knitted - Pink - Merino - Cabled - Hat.

 

I will also be finishing up plying up a skein of 3 ply white alpaca yarn, that I started plying up on Saturday. 

This will be the 5th skein of 3 ply white alpaca yarn, when I'm through.  When I'm finished plying up this skein, I'll start in plying up the 6th skein.  I only have 4 big buckets and 1 small bucket left with carded batts from Bellagio's fleece.

 

 

 



1, 2, 3, full bobbins

Getting ready to ply!  Before I start though, here a bit of info

This first bobbin weights 5 3/4 ounces (with bobbin) - 2 ounces (for bobbin) = 3 3/4 ounces

The second bobbin (on the left) weights 4 7/8 ounces (with bobbin) - 2 ounces (for bobbin) = 2 7/8 ounces

The third bobbin (far left) weights 5 1/8 ounces (with bobbin) - 2 ounces (for bobbin) = 3 1/8 ounces

Total weight is 3 3/4 + 2 7/8 + 3 1/8 = 9 3/4 ounces

Now to begin plying!



Another Custom Order Finished

Well, I did it!  I finished yet another custom order!!

Spinning Ginny Original - Handspun - Knitted - Dyed - Alpaca - Pretty n Pink - Adult Ladies Socks - Size 6

Now to finish refilling this third bobbin of single white alpaca and start in plying

Tonight, I'll begin the last and final custom order.............a black alpaca infinity scarf.

 



Incentives that keep me working hard

Good Morning!  Its Thursday can you believe it?  I've been working so hard this week, that the days are flying by.  My incentive is to finish knitting up this pair of Spinning Ginny Original - Handspun - Knitted - Dyed - Alpaca - Pretty n Pink - Adult Ladies Socks - Size 6

See I have the heel flap, heel turn and Gusset finished and the Instep is started.  I only have 46 more rows to knit.

I have also been spinning up more of Bellagio's fleece, and the second bobbin is refilled again.

Now to begin refilling the third bobbin, so that I can have 3 full bobbins again and plying up some more 3 ply yarn.

Its great to have incentives!

 

Veteran's Day, Spinning and Custom Ordered Socks

Today is Veteran's Day and I want to thank my Family, Friends, Veterans young and old, as well as those that have gave their lives, so that we can have the FREEDOMS we have today.

I almost have the second bobbin filled with single ply white alpaca, it won't be long now before I start refilling the third bobbin.

I only have one more row to knit and the leg will be finished.  Then it will be time to work on the heel flap, heel turn, gusset, instep, and lastly the toe take off.  This custom order is almost done and I only have one more to do.  I just know that my customers will be happy when I have their orders finished!

 



Time flies when spinning

Once I open the spinning room door and I set down behind the spinning wheel and start in spinning, time flies by.  Bobbins fill up magically, begin to fill.

 A full bobbin is removed and another bobbin soon replaces it, and starts to be filled.

Next thing I know its time to stop, where I'm at on my spinning.....

and go cook dinner.