Wheel spun!

My alpaca endeavor has finally turned into a wheel.  A Lendrum folding wheel (single treadle) to be exact.  Just in time for shearing so I can actually do something with alpaca come shearing season in May.

And of course you know I've been playing with my new baby.  So now I have 2 projects (well, 1.5 actually) to share:

Wheel Spun #1:

2 colors of "Crumb" (superwash colonial wool) from The Cupcake Factory...cool blue raspberry and acai berry carded together with tinsel from the craft store and spun on my new wheel (squee!!!):

Wheel Spun #2:

Superwash Cake Batter (superwash merino wool) from The Cupcake Factory in the Neapolitan Colourway.  Split in half lengthwise then split in half again and opened up like a book to make 2 balls.  Spun on the lendrum and andean plied (I've only got pics up to the plying part....but I'm hoping to get some spinning done this weekend in my down time while I'm away at a conference so I'll do the 2nd ball and snap some photos).

Fall is here

Part of why I have been such a blog slacker lately is because I get guilt for neglecting it.  I feel like I neglected my blog for so long that my next post better be awesome.  But I don't have anything awesome to post about so I don't post anything.  But then I feel guilty for not posting.  So then I feel like my next post needs to be awesome..... and it goes on and on.

So I'm giving up on trying to come up with witty, well-written, clever entries about the happenings of a knitting cupcaker and her family.  Instead, I think we're going to try the "short and sweet" approach.

So this is what I've got for today as a recap for October:

I made this yarn:

It's half fleece artist BFL and half purple corriedale.  In the end, it give me 98 g (about 64 yards) of bulky weight yarn.  I want to do mittens but I don't know if I have enough.

I made most of a sweater:

It's a modified version of Star-Cross'd Love.  Pattern was originally a size small, I'm making it a L/XL.  Looks good so far.  Need some sleeves and to add a bit of length to the collar.  If you're a Raveler, my pattern page lives here.

I dyed some new roving for my shop:

It's a new Cupcake Factory line called "Confection" and it lives here

I made these:

The little ones are chocolate cakes baked in Pampered Chef prep bowls.  The big ones is yellow cake w/ halloween sprinkles (funfetti-syle) and baked in a PC small batter bowl.  Little stems are mint candies.  Large stem is molded lime tootsie rolls.

I went here:

And did this:

Oh!  And because Melody asked so nice, here is a gratuitous dog picture: