Let's try this again

Long time, no post. Crazy huh? I've been sucked into the Ravelry hole (friend me, I'm jenknits) - what a major time suck that is, but I love to waste my time there. Mostly I lurk around and queue patterns and dream of stuff I'd like to knit or yarns I'd like to play with.

There's been spinning and knitting and carding and dyeing as well.

This is a batt I made for the June Spin-a-long on Ravelry. It's a tweed I created at the beginning of June and I forgot to write down what I did so I don't even remember what all is in it. I think its mostly burgandy and pink merinos with blue dyed tussah silk, a bit of yellow merino and green merino added at the end so it shows and some light grey 100% super soft alpaca blended in really well.I'm spinning it with a supported long draw pretty thick and I'm planning to two-ply it into a bulky yarn that will be super soft.
There's also been a lot of knitting. I'm co-moderating a group on Ravelry that discusses the book A Fine Fleece by Lisa Lloyd. What a fabulous book that is! So far I've carded lots of batts and spun up lots of yarn in hopes of a sweater from the book. But in my excitement to get started I ordered a yarn to start the Trinity vest so I could be knitting something from the book amoungst my spininng time. It's a nicely written pattern and I love the yarn I chose but the trinity stitch hurts my hands some so I'm chugging along a little slow just a few rows at a time.
A month in and only about 6 inches. Then again, there is all the other distraction. I have lots of other stuff on the needles all the time - project monogamy is definitely not for me.

Oh, and just for a shameless shop plug, I've done a lot of dyeing and posting lately and here a couple of my favorites - both in superfine mernino top.