Christmas is done and dusted for another year...

 and as of the 27th everything we put up on the 1st December has been taken down and packed up.  Usually make use of boxing day but was late this year lol.

These are the lovely gifts that I received from Ofaigh in the Santa Sack Swap!  I was spoilt!  Thanks Ofaigh and I hope you enjoyed what I sent to you too.

I made two sets of these felt ornaments and have given one set to my mum to go with the ones I created last year.  All of these were pics I seen on Pintrest and had to work it out for myself.

The beaded wool I spun has now been finished into a knitted scarf!  I am very pleased with it.

I also received my Majacraft blending board and have been having a bit of a play on it today.

A few weeks back I made a tensioned lazy kate for when I am plying.  The one I have with rods in it just flies too fast and also the rods fall out and it is a nightmare lol.  I can do up to 4 plys but one of the dowel rods snapped when I was hammering them in so will have to get a little more dowel next time I am in Bunnings.  I believe it only cost me about $10 - $15 to make as I already had the board and paint.  Had to be black as the board was blue lol.  A new one would have set me back anywhere from about $80.  Works very well to hold the bobbins when I am winding them into a skein for washing too.

Today I finished spinning some leftover black merino and started plying it with a mottled grey merino and blue overlocker thread strung with black beads and sequins.  Will have to be careful when blocking this one lol that I do not melt the sequins.  

Yesterday I begun spinning up this alpaca tops from Bendigo Woollen Mills so it can be plied with another mottled merino fleece of which I have pictured below.

 Don't the look lovely when put together.  ALpaca/merino is so soft!

I have also been busy today winding all these finished, washed skeins into balls.  Couldn't believe how many I had sitting around waiting. 
Notice the lovely blues through to lemons.  Inverleigh farm rovings!  18 micron merino.  There are some pics on facebook that I will pull off and share.