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My friend Shannon threatned to break all my knitting needles if I didn’t post a new update.  Apparantly a week of nothing new is too long to go between posts. :p

I’ve been working on a fairy doll as a present for Abby’s birthday, which is, ah, NEXT WEEK.  OMG.  It’s all too fast, man.  Too fast.  She is turning five.

I have a bit more done on this now, a leg, and the hair.  I haven’t worked on it anymore than that, because yesterday I spent all day dyeing 3 lbs of yarn!  That was a lot of work!  Today I’m re-skeining, and hope to get a few lbs of roving dyed.

I also finished plying up the first half of the Nurturing Threads swap.

Ah, I guess I need to get back to re-skeining — but I’ll leave you with a picture of what is happening behind me right now

Mostly because I’ve been busy!

I am participating in the Hyena Cart Forums fiber for yarn swap.  Buyers sign up to send a spinner both fiber for spinning into yarn (for the buyer) and payment fiber of the same amount for the spinner’s personal use.  So far I’ve completed two swaps, and started the third one two days ago.  I believe I still have two more after this third swap, for a total of five

Shetland in Peony by Spunky Eclectic. Spun to a 2 ply heavy worsted weight.

BFL in Joshua Tree by Spunky Eclectic. Spun the same as Peony.

BFL in Black Cherry by yes, Spunky Eclectic Spun the same as the above two.

And here is the swap I'm working on now. It's 8 oz of superwash merino in Nurturing Thread's Wizard colorway. This is for Stacy herself

My payment fiber

And lastly, I’ve found a new hobby.  Not quite as addicting as say, spinning or dyeing, but still quite fun, quick, and satisfying!

I’m also working on getting new stock ready for my HC re-opening.  I don’t have a set date yet, but I know it will have to be soon as I need more supplies and I’m out of money!  I’m planning auctions, lotteries, and maybe even freebies!  More details will come, well, as soon as I know more!

I finally managed to get my previews up before the night before a stocking, whoo hoo! There are all the rovings from my previous post, as well as a couple of custom listings.  I hope to get some yarn dyed in time but I’m not optimistic on that one.

In knitting news, I finally made myself a scrubby and a ball band dishcloth!  They have both been in my queue on Ravelry forever, but I finally manged it.  I love knitted dishcloths, they scrub just as well as anything plastic or disposable you’d buy from a store, but you can use them over and over and throw them in the wash when they’re yucky.  And what’s better than cleaning with bright, cheery, hand knits?  Nothing!

On the homefront, Matthew is now potty-training!  YAY!  I am sooo excited he is doing this, and so young!  He’s at least a year earlier than Abby was.  He needs constant reminders but he can control himself pretty well.  I got in some lovely trainers from Jessica of Utopian Dreams for him yesterday and they are, for lack of a better word, stellar!  Her sewing is phenomenoal and the trainers work wonderful.  I can’t wait until I don’t have to use diapers anymore!  5 years of it, and I’m ready for it to be over.

Yarn: Selah’s Tokyo

Pattern: Custom to Matthew’s measurements

Size: Custom Large

I’ll be selling my yarn & fiber soon — look for more news to come!

Hi y’all!

You may know me from my other 2 blogs (that I never keep up) neversatisfied & Cajun Cloth.  Neither of those names work for me anymore, and frankly I am tired of changing names!  So I figure ‘Cajun Crafting’ will cover all my bases

I am a momma of two youngn’s – Abby & Matthew.  Abby just started Pre-K this year and loves it, and is quite the chatterbox.  Matthew is your basic two year old boy – very active, very destructive, very loud.  But he is also so very sweet and loving.

I began my crafting journey when I started cloth diapering Abby at 11 months old.  Seeing the high price of a diaper (averaging $15) made me want to learn to make my own.  Little did I know how addicted I would become to making them and all the cute fabrics!  So it didn’t turn out any cheaper *laughs*

Learning all about cloth diapering (and there is alot to learn!) had me wanting to learn to knit.  A knit pair of longies would average $50!  Totally worth it, but at the time totally not in my price range for a single pair of pants.  So I began to knit, and again, little did I know how addicted I would become to yarn! (see a pattern yet?)

Learning to knit just eventually led to my newest love, spinning my own yarn and dyeing the fiber/yarn.  My heart was never really in sewing, no matter how badly I wanted it to be, it just wasn’t.  I just don’t have the inclination to sew like I do to knit and spin.  Which is a shame because I have some beautiful fabrics and wonderful patterns, but they just sit.

I can’t even tell you the last time I turned on one of my sewing machines.  I have three – you see when I start a hobby, or anything for that matter, I dive in headfirst and go all out.  I want it all!  So I have my basic machine that I started with (a gift from my mother and a lovely workhorse), a serger (finicky thing that she is, but sooo worth the time she saves!) and my newest, a combination sewing/embroidery machine.  I would like to upgrade her honestly, but I just can’t justify it when I might only use it a dozen times a year.

So here we are today.   Just call me a cajun momma with too many hobbies