Well, you know how they say things never go according to plan? I think that this wedding may have inspired that statement.

Due to the piggy flu in Mexico all of our flights were canceled. Not only did that cause some serious panic on my end, but also left me with some slim options. C and I weighed all of our options based on the small sliver of sanity we had left and decided to push back the date of our wedding…we will now be married in July. The decision was not easy, but the thought of planning another wedding made my brain leak out of my ears!

So, we are now looking forward to our July wedding and the good news is that Canada lifted their travel advisory a few days ago so there should be no more flight delays. With that we are moving forward with positive attitudes and greatly looking forward to our warmer summer wedding!

There has been some progress on the garter…well in fact, quite a bit of ripping and re spinning….the 2ply I spun was far too thick and so I have worked up a new single and will be attempting to cast on shortly…wish me luck with this one. If it does not work out…well…I guess I really have no back up plan at this point. Honestly, I have been avoiding the garter and working on the shawl.

The wedding shawl was a beast of it’s own kind. I ripped and knit and frogged and knit and frogged some more. At that point I decided that the yarn was simply CURSED!! And so I dyed new silk…new wedding date…new yarn…fresh start. I then decided that my brain needed mindless…this forcing of pieces was not working anywhere on the wedding…so I just let it be…a little design of my own.

It is a very simple shawl that will also be short as I dont want to fight with layers in the July Mexico heat..so it is going to equal the length of my arm span!

ETA: whoo hoo the blog is working again…it’s not wednesday..but it’s a post!

Things are moving so quickly around here..well..mostly things that I want to move slowly…and the things that need to move fast…arn’t.

The garter spinning is almost done…this was my first time spinning so close to lace weight and whew does it take a log time, but look, I am ready to ply!

I hope there is enough yarn here…I will be crocheting my garter..I fell in love with this pattern

It is fantastic and I am hoping my rusty crochet skills will get me through it.

As for the shawl, I have ripped and restarted it SO MANY TIMES! In a desperate effort I emailed Anne for some guidance and I think she had me on the right track…however I am keeping my lips sealed until I make some more progress…I don’t want to jinx it!

The wedding is only 1 month and 19 days away…I can’t believe it…so much to do..but it is all fun!

Drawing closer to the actual wedding date I am starting to realize that I have not gotten all of the things done knitting wise that I wanted. So I am focusing on my wedding knitting/crafting. Let me tell you…this is a very handcrafted wedding…from the invitations all the way down to the garter.

I decided I wanted a handspun handknit garter, so I went through my blank fiber stash and found the perfect fiber, a Merino/Tussah Silk blend and dyed 2 oz in a wonderfully bright turqoise!

I re dyed the fiber twice to make sure it was the colour I wanted…something very saturated with blue. She dried up into this great braid.

I love how close to a solid it came out…perhaps that was me over dyeing it but either way I am very happy with the finished fiber.

99.9% of the time I do not predraft…I was taught to predraft when I was spinning, but after a spin session with Funky C (who rarely predrafts) I agreed with her that for my spinning purposes I get a much more even fiber by not predrafting…it’s a personal preference. However, with that said I predrafted this fiber for one reason only…lace. I am attempting to get a lace weight on a non laceweight flier and so I made all of these lovely puffs for easier thin spinning!

I love fiber puffs!